Part sweet-tasting nutrient, part mind-altering substance, sugar is much more powerful than you may think. Here's what new research shows about its remarkable mind-body influence.
The more sugar a person eats, the more sweet-tolerant they become.
The potent brain effects of sugar help explain the modern sugar obsession and frequent difficulties moderating sugar consumption.world. Pleasure and poison, desire and danger, love and Lucifer—sugar somehow embodies all these qualities and more in our modern culture. Part sweet-tasting nutrient and part mind-altering substance, sugar began taking Western civilization by storm in the 18th century. By the 21st century, sugar's candied conquest of the U.S. was complete, appearing as an additive in two-thirds to three-fourths of all food and drinks.to sugar focuses on potential health harms and ways to reduce sugar intake, neuroscientific research about sugar has revealed how and why this plain white substance wields so much power in our lives.
Technically called"chemosensory plasticity," if you wish to impress your friends, numerous studies show in species ranging from insects to humans that high-sugar diets rapidly increase tolerance to sweet tastes.What was once too sweet to stomach now becomes just right. For the typical person, this increased sweet tolerance is clearly measurable in just a month.Mother Nature is too smart to be fooled by artificial sweeteners. She knows how to detect real sugar.
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