@article {DiNicolantonio910, author = {James J DiNicolantonio and James H O{\textquoteright}Keefe and William L Wilson}, title = {Sugar addiction: is it real? A narrative review}, volume = {52}, number = {14}, pages = {910--913}, year = {2018}, doi = {10.1136/bjsports-2017-097971}, publisher = {British Association of Sport and Excercise Medicine}, abstract = {In animal studies, sugar has been found to produce more symptoms than is required to be considered an addictive substance. Animal data has shown significant overlap between the consumption of added sugars and drug-like effects, including bingeing, craving, tolerance, withdrawal, cross-sensitisation, cross-tolerance, cross-dependence, reward and opioid effects. Sugar addiction seems to be dependence to the natural endogenous opioids that get released upon sugar intake. In both animals and humans, the evidence in the literature shows substantial parallels and overlap between drugs of abuse and sugar, from the standpoint of brain neurochemistry as well as behaviour.}, issn = {0306-3674}, URL = {https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/52/14/910}, eprint = {https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/52/14/910.full.pdf}, journal = {British Journal of Sports Medicine} }