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Old 05-14-2013, 03:48 PM  
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Originally Posted by EddyTheDog View Post
Its not about 'sugar', its about anything that triggers the pleasure receptors in your brain...

It is a chemical process - Chemicals are produced and consumed by the brain and those chemicals are very addictive...

There are people who self harm - They get the same chemicals produced when they cut themselves - Sugar isn't addictive - Its what happens next that is addictive...

Think about people who gamble or who are always putting themselves in danger...
sugar isn't addictive? are you sure? is there anyway for you to find out if there is a 'withdrawl'?

anyway, my point is sugar is a chemical working on the 'pleasure receptors' or 'reward receptors' of the brain.. ie 'priming' the addiction for what would become consumption etc
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