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Dr. Shrock
PEC-140
09 February 2021
Sugar Addiction
Addiction can occur from repeat use of drugs such as alcohol, opioids, cannabis, nicotine
and much more. However, individuals may overlook a common substance that has become a
modern plight of addiction and that is sugar addiction. This is all due because added sugar can be
found in most foods at grocery stores in 80% of products. In addition, this does not count for
natural sugars that can be found in fruit and milk. So, with mass quantities of food that has added
sugar, a worrisome issue surfaces with the aspect of biochemistry in the brain.
The encephalon, or brain, has an immensely sensitive system called leptin. In this action,
