Australian scientists have found that dependent sugar consumption of people should be treated the same as cocaine addicts. This was reported in the journal PLOS One, and briefly about the study told The Independent.
It turned out that the abuse of sweet increases the level of dopamine (the”pleasure hormone”) in the same way that tobacco, morphine and cocaine. In addition, over time, this effect is smoothed, and a sweet tooth is necessary to increase the consumption of sugar to achieve the usual concentration of dopamine and break out of depression. In other words, a sharp non-sweet is a real “break”.
Finally, the researchers stated that varenicline (a popular drug for nicotine dependence) and in the process of abandoning the abuse of sweet.
However, the findings of Australian scientists contradict the results that a large study received in 2014, biologists from the University of Edinburgh. According to the latter, the dependence on sugar is not biochemical but psychological (like the propensity to gambling), and that treatment should not drugs, but by changing the patient’s relationship to food.
