Evidence for sugar addiction: behavioral and neurochemical effects of intermittent, excessive sugar intake.
By N. Avena, P. Rada, B. Hoebel. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 2008
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Subfields: Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Nutrition and Dietetics
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- The tempted brain eats: pleasure and desire circuits in obesity and eating disorders. (2010, neutral): “While still controversial, the idea of food addiction is increasingly being regarded as having validity, at least for some cases of compulsive overeating (Avena et al., 2008; Dagher, 2009; Dallman, 2010; Davis et al., 2004; Davis and Carter, 2009; Ifland et al., 2009; Kessler, 2009; Lowe and Butryn,”
- Excessive Eating and Compulsive Buying Behaviours in Women: An Empirical Pilot Study Examining Reward Sensitivity, Anxiety, Impulsivity, Self-Esteem and Social Desirability (2012, background): “However, it is this reward that gives highly palatable food, such as sugar (Avena et al. 2008), it’s addictive potential, leading to excessive eating as an addictive”
- Overlapping neuronal circuits in addiction and obesity: evidence of systems pathology (2008, background): “Similarly, repeated exposure to certain foods (particularly, large quantities of energy-dense food with high-fat and sugar contents; Avena et al. 2008) in vulnerable individuals can also result in compulsive food consumption, poor food intake control and conditioning to food stimuli.”
- An opportunity cost model of subjective effort and task performance (2013, neutral): “Further, glucose can have behavioral effects similar to that of drugs of abuse that target the same circuitry (Avena et al. 2008).”
- The perils of ignoring history: Big Tobacco played dirty and millions died. How similar is Big Food? (2009, background): “Animal studies have shown similarities in the way the brain responds to classic drugs of abuse (e.g., morphine, alcohol, nicotine) and to sugar ( Avena, Rada, and Hoebel 2008 ).”
- Disorders of compulsivity: a common bias towards learning habits (2014, neutral): “In the first study here, we employed the two-step task to test subjects with disorders representing a broad range of compulsions, towards a natural or drug reward, or to avoid an aversive stimulus (7).”
- Pro v Con Reviews: Is Food Addictive? (2012, background): “It is well known that certain foods, particularly those rich in sugars and fat, are potently rewarding (13) and can trigger addictive-like behaviours in laboratory animals (14,15).”
- Reward, dopamine and the control of food intake: implications for obesity (2010, neutral): “Interestingly, in rodents that have been exposed to diets rich in sugar, a pharmacological challenge with naloxone (opiate antagonist drug devoid of effects in control rats) elicits an opiate withdrawal syndrome similar to that observed in animals that have been chronically exposed to opioid drugs [”