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Sugar addiction in rats may shed light on human behavior
Published: Friday, December 12th, 2008
At the annual meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Wednesday, psychology professor Bart Hoebel presented his innovative research that suggests sugar is an addictive substance that affects rats similarly to how drugs and alcohol impact ...(back to the article)
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This study is a good example of why we need to stop outlawing drugs. Why should I as a tax payer have to pay taxes towards people that use refine sugar that are overweight or have diabetes? People choose there life styles and should have the right to do so. But for me to have to pay for the health cost that refine sugar causes is wrong. Same as me having to pay taxes for something that people do in their own home. If people want to use drugs in their own home let theme. But for me to pay the legal bill for a bunch of white "Moral Majority Christian" that are toting "zero tolerance" when they are the filthy ones-ie Bankers, Enron, Murdock ect.. is driving America into the ground.
Sugar addiction is a stage where a person can’t live with out sweet. Person fully depends upon the sugar. This addiction is as much harmful as drug addiction. There are lots of side effects of the sugar addiction such as, Euphoria, inebriation and diabetes problem.
http://www.addiction-treatments.com/addiction/S...