“Are sweets addictive?” —Erica Kern With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I should be opening a Maison du Chocolat box instead of Pandora’s box, but never mind. With the hand-in-hand prevalences of obesity and diabetes on the increase throughout the United States and the rest of the world, the scientific validity of food addiction—in particular, sugar addiction—is on the radar of every researcher who is trying to discover why millions of people pig out to the point where they develop life-threatening illnesses. Our brains depends on a constant supply of glucose to function, so it’s no surprise that sugars in carbohydrate-rich foods have always been a part of the human...
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