Sugar Addiction
 

Do you think that it's possible to be addicted to sugar? In this segment on ABC News Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum talks about his new book "Beat Sugar Addiction Now" and how sugar addiction can affect health negatively in a variety of ways. However, the article also points out that an article published in the journal Clinical Nutrition in June found that there is no evidence that sugar or any food can actually become addicting to humans. What do you think? Is sugar addictive? Can people be addicted to food?

Yes I do. I've seen people put 10 packs of sugar in their coffee.
One place I worked at all they did was consume huge Arizona Iced Teas with whopping amounts of sugar/high fructose corn syrup in them.

Watch this video for recent medical studies on what sugar and fructose do to your body:

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread116672.html

Thanks for the resources! Hm, I guess there are some studies, but why do you think there has been no published research proving that sugar can be addictive? I'm somewhat playing Devil's Advocate here - I just ordered the Teitelbaum book ("Beat Sugar Addiction Now"). I like how the Teitelbaum book splits sugar addiction into four types (I think I have two of them, actually, from reading the contents on Amazon) - because it treats the root cause rather than the symptom. I certainly have a sugar problem, not sure I'm ready to use the big A word about it though.

One can get addicted to anything. It involves the dopamine reward system.

You can look that up on PubMed or Google.

Video games for example are addicting because they release dopamine. Foods including sugar can do that too.

There are some interesting articles on "food addiction" on Google. Some are psychological and some go into the new research on dopamine reward and are more chemically medically oriented.