Sugar addiction

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By the term sugar addiction ( English sugar addiction ) relationships are between regular sugar consumption and signs of addiction discussed. The existence of sugar addiction is controversial in science.

Scientific Research

There are currently over 160 studies examining the relationship between sugar consumption and addiction. These studies, which for the most part obtained their results from laboratory experiments with rats, highlighted the following signs of addiction with increased sugar consumption:

  • Binge eating
  • Drugs that induced withdrawal symptoms in drug addicts also did so with increased sugar consumption

For example, a study by scientists at Princeton University led by Bart Hoebel in 2008 found that, in laboratory experiments, rats showed signs of addiction when they regularly consumed sugar. It is assumed that the results can be transferred to the human organism. This thesis is taken up outside the scientific discourse. Other scientific authors, such as David Benton , doubt that the result can be transferred to humans .

Web links

Literature (selection)

  • NM Avena, BG Hoebel: A diet promoting sugar dependency causes behavioral cross-sensitization to a low dose of amphetamine. In: Neuroscience. 122/2003, pp. 17-20.
  • NM Avena, KA Long, BG Hoebel: Sugar-dependent rats show enhanced responding for sugar after abstinence: evidence of a sugar deprivation effect. In: Physiol Behav. March 16, 2005, No. 84 (3), pp. 359-362.
  • E. Blass, E. Fitzgerald, P. Kehoe: Interactions between sucrose, pain and isolation distress. In: Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 1987, No. 26 (3), pp. 483-489.
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  • Carlo Colantuoni et al .: Evidence That Intermittent, Excessive Sugar Intake Causes Endogenous Opioid Dependence. In: Obesity Research. No. 10, 2002, pp. 478-488.
  • J. Cleary et al: Naloxone Effects on Sucrose-Motivated Behavior. In: Psychopharmacology . 1996, No. 126 (2), pp. 110-114.
  • C. Colantuoni et al: Excessive sugar intake alters binding to dopamine and mu-opioid receptors in the brain. In: Neuroreport. November 16, 2001, No. 12 (16), pp. 3549-3552.
  • SA Czirr, LD Reid: Demonstrating morphine's potentiating effects on sucrose intake. In: Brain Res Bull. 1986, no. 17 (5), pp. 639-642.
  • KE D'Anci, RB Kanarek: Naltrexone antagonism of morphine antinociception in sucrose- and chow-fed rats. In: Nutr Neurosci. 2004. 7 (1), pp. 57-61.
  • KE D'Anci, RB Kanarek, R. Marks-Kaufman: Duration of sucrose availability differentially alters morphine-induced analgesia in rats. In: Pharmacol Biochem Behav . 1996. 54 (4), pp. 693-697.
  • Kathleen DesMaisons: The Sugar Addict's Total Recovery Program. Ballantine Books, 2000, ISBN 0-345-44132-X .
  • Kathleen DesMaisons: Potatoes Not Prozac. Simon & Schuster, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4165-5615-2 .
  • A. Drewnowski, MR Greenwood: Cream and sugar: human preferences for high-fat foods. In: Physiol Behav. 1983. 30 (4), pp. 629-633.
  • A. Drewnowski et al .: Taste responses and preferences for sweet high-fat foods: evidence for opioid involvement. In: Physiol Behav. 1992. 51 (2), pp. 371-379.
  • A. Drewnowski et al: Naloxone, an opiate blocker, reduces the consumption of sweet high-fat foods in obese and lean female binge eaters. In: Am J Clin Nutr. 1995. 61 (6), pp. 1206-1212.
  • C. Erlanson-Albertsson: Sugar triggers our reward system. Sweets release opiates which stimulates the appetite for sucrose — insulin can depress it. In: Lakartidningen. 2005. 102 (21), pp. 1620-1622, 1625, 1627.
  • M. Fantino, J. Hosotte, M. Apfelbaum: An opioid antagonist, naltrexone, reduces preference for sucrose in humans. In: Am J Physiol. 1986. 251 (1 Pt 2), pp. R91-R96.
  • DT Fullerton et al .: Sugar, opioids and binge eating. In: Brain Res Bull. 1985. 14 (6), pp. 673-680.
  • AB Kampov-Polevoy et al .: Sweet preference predicts mood altering effect of and impaired control over eating sweet foods. In: Eat Behav. 2006. 7 (3), pp. 181-187.
  • RB Kanarek, S. Mandillo, C. Wiatr: Chronic sucrose intake augments antinociception induced by injections of mu but not kappa opioid receptor agonists into the periaqueductal gray matter in male and female rats. In: Brain Res. 2001. 920 (1-2), pp. 97-105.
  • B. Laeng, KC Berridge, CM Butter: Pleasantness of a sweet taste during hunger and satiety: effects of gender and "sweet tooth". In: Appetite. 1993. 21 (3), pp. 247-254.
  • L. Leventhal et al .: Selective actions of central mu and kappa opioid antagonists upon sucrose intake in sham-fed rats. In: Brain Res. 1995. 685 (1-2), pp. 205-210.
  • AS Levine, CM Kotz, BA Gosnell: Sugars and fats: the neurobiology of preference. In: Nutr. 2003. 133 (3), pp. 831S-834S.
  • AS Levine et al: Opioids and Consummatory Behavior. In: Brain Res Bull. 1985. 14 (6), pp. 663-672.
  • P. Rada, NM Avena, BG Hoebel: Daily bingeing on sugar repeatedly releases dopamine in the accumbens shell. In: Neuroscience. 2005; 134 (3), pp. 737-744.
  • GM Schoenbaum, RJ Martin, DS Roane: Relationships between sustained sucrose-feeding and opioid tolerance and withdrawal. In: Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 1989. 34 (4), pp. 911-914.
  • R. Spangler et al .: Opiate-like effects of sugar on gene expression in reward areas of the rat brain. In: Brain Res Mol Brain Res. May 19, 2004; 124 (2), pp. 134-142.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Benton: Is Sugar Addicting? In: Modern Diet Today. ed. from the Food Chemistry Institute of the Federal Association of the German Confectionery Industry , 2010.
  2. ↑ princeton.edu
  3. ↑ NM Avena, P. Rada, BG Hoebel: Evidence for sugar addiction: Behavioral and neurochemical effect of intermittent, excessive sugar intake. In: Neurosc Biobehav Rev. Edition: 32, pp. 20–39.
  4. ↑ for example on Wunderwelt Wissen cited from http://www.suchtmittel.de/info/zuckersucht/002449.php
  5. ↑ suchtmittel.de