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Your brain on sugar

We love sweet treats . But too much sugar in our diets can lead to weight and obesity , Type 2 diabetes and dental . We know we shouldn ? t be eating candy , ice cream , cookies , cakes and drinking sugary sodas , but sometimes they are so hard to . It ? s as if our brain is to want these foods .

Your body runs on sugar ? glucose to be precise . Glucose comes from the Greek word glukos which means sweet . Glucose the cells that make up our body ? including brain cells ( neurons ) .

On an evolutionary basis , our primitive ancestors were scavengers . Sugary foods are excellent of energy , so we have evolved to find sweet foods particularly . Foods with unpleasant , bitter and sour tastes can be , poisonous or rotting ? causing sickness .

So to our survival as a species , we have an brain system that makes us like sweet foods since they ? re a great source of energy to fuel our bodies .

When we eat sweet foods the brain ? s system ? called the mesolimbic dopamine system ? gets . Dopamine is a brain chemical by neurons and can that an event was positive . When the reward system fires , it behaviours ? making it more likely for us to out these actions again .

Dopamine " hits " from eating sugar rapid learning to find more of these foods .

Our environment today is with sweet , energy rich foods . We no longer have to for these special sugary foods ? they are everywhere . Unfortunately , our brain is still functionally very similar to our ancestors , and it really likes sugar . So what happens in the brain when we consume sugar ?

 
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