Lightworker1234
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We’re hardwired to like sugar, because no natural sweet food is acutely poisonous. That's good to know, unfortunately the 'food' industry does too. We like sweets because they offer the body easy access to sugar its main fuel. One could say the food industry successfully hijacked this instinct by adding sugar to most any product, about 80% of today’s 600,000 supermarket items contain it. It also turns out sugar is addictive. Like a drug and unlike natural foods, refined sugar stimulates a repeated dopamine release in the reward center of the brain (dopamine is part of the brain’s “Feels good, let’s have it again” response).