Food & Drink Sugar is incredibly addicting

[Bornstarch]

I don't drink alcohol, soda or even juice. I only drink water.

I was at someone's house and got offered a can of sprite. My first time drinking soda in 25 years. The first sip was almost a religious experience. Sucks going back to water after drinking that. It's crazy how good sugar makes you feel.

 

[Get To Da Choppa]

I don't drink alcohol, soda or even juice. I only drink water.

I was at someone's house and got offered a can of sprite. My first time drinking soda in 25 years. The first sip was almost a religious experience. Sucks going back to water after drinking that. It's crazy how good sugar makes you feel.

This is why Americans are fat

 

[moreorless87]

50 million years of evolution as fruit eaters.

 

[Osculater]

Naw, I think alcohol is more addicting but I do love eating chocolate chip cookies, brownies, and Toblerone

 

[Osculater]

This is why Americans are fat

It's bulking season, bro

 

[Osculater]

50 million years of evolution as fruit eaters.

 

[Noveltymortar]

Artificial sweeteners might be even worse in terms of addiction. I can't drive by a gas station without my brain trying to force me to stop and get a diet Mountain Dew.

 

[IIIIIIII]

sugar is the most addictive substance on the planet. google says cocaine, but i disagree lol.

 

[Contempt]

I don't drink alcohol, soda or even juice. I only drink water.

I was at someone's house and got offered a can of sprite. My first time drinking soda in 25 years. The first sip was almost a religious experience. Sucks going back to water after drinking that. It's crazy how good sugar makes you feel.

Interesting... I don't drink soda and haven't for a very long time. I was exhausted, needed caffeine and the only option available was coke.

After the first sip, I gagged. It was just liquid sugar... absolutely vile shit.

 

[Don Quixote]

As good as sugar tastes, I usually avoid sugary stuff. As I get older, I’ve noticed my teeth are getting sensitive and eating sugar hurts my teeth. About the only thing I can handle with sugar is ice cream and drinks, I guess because the sugar in those dissolves away quicker; cakes pies and candy are usually too rich for my tastes.

 

[Yoel Bromero]

I don't drink alcohol, soda or even juice. I only drink water.

I was at someone's house and got offered a can of sprite. My first time drinking soda in 25 years. The first sip was almost a religious experience. Sucks going back to water after drinking that. It's crazy how good sugar makes you feel.

When covid hit I cleaned up my lifestyle big time.

Went cold turkey on a bunch of things. Alcohol.
Cigarettes.
Weed.
Bread.
Pop (soda).


Weed and cigs were habitual things. Get in car, fire up the engine, grab a dart.

Crank bongs (also with tobacco) at home before a show or cooking or playing sports or whatever it happened to be. Liked to be high for some things and it became habitual.


When covid hit and we got locked down I lost my mind. Switched to being a picture of health. Cold turkey everything.

For the rep that alcohol and cigs have they were the easiest ones to quit by far.

Pop (soda) and bread were the only cravings that I had to really work through for weeks. I'd wake up thinking about warm bread or cold soda most days until I didn't.

Don't remember ever remember waking up craving whiskey, darts, or bongs.

Bread and soda were a real motherfucker.

Bread was the hardest to kick. It keeps you hungry all day and causes hunger pangs.

Tinfoil hat time, baked bread was the first really successful form of mind control. It kept people coming back to do shitty work bc they wanted more bread so badly.

 

[Yoricks Wisdom]

well, most of us ingest too much starch for sure.....

but none of us was 'born starch'.

 

[Bobby00]

Proof is in the pudding. If half the populace was addicted to meth or alcohol people would be alarmed. Over half the population is either overweight or obese. Its mostly from sugar.

 

[Deaths Head]

(Research on rats has found that sugar is more addictive than opioid drugs such as cocaine, and that there can be withdrawal symptoms such as depression and behavioural problems when people try cutting out sugar completely)

I believe this as I don’t believe recreational drugs are addictive unless you are genetically more inclined to be addicted to cocaine etc . Not including heroin which I’m not sure that’s more addictive as I never did that junk . I believe drug addiction has to be mental and taking for a prolonged time to create a very dangerous pattern .

Sugar on the other hand is an addictive stimulant that automatically sends cravings to the brain , I only drink ginger ale once in a blue moon but that’s still soda it’s not real ginger ale I’d drink Raw Kombucha Gingerade if I wanted to actually get real ginger .


The fact sugar automatically can disrupt the nervous system which creates multiple problems even prematurely aging and weakening skeletal muscle it’s more dangerous bc it’s in almost every commercial product,high fructose corn syrup is in every soda with sugar . Then there’s the color dyes which is banned in other countries. Soda could be the most dangerous thing you can count in your body even in moderation these days bc the total added sugar content per day if of the charts for average person exceeded 40 grams per day is considered above what you should take .

I stick good quality water 90% of the time , 2 glasses of milk per day a glass of pineapple juice here and there I minimize any coffee creamers ( your not actually supposed to mix any milk products it’s coffee ) and on weekends I drink some beer which has no sugars . If I drink a drink with sugar it’s Raw Kombucha on occasion but it’s a very healthy drink so the 17 grams of sugar isn’t a killer .

 

[GSP_37]

A few times I went walking and was really low on energy, so I bought discounted Reese's Easter Egg and Simply Lemonade or Limeade or Watermelon. I think I like limeade the best. I try not to drink it regularly because it's likely sugar water.

 

[GSP_37]

As good as sugar tastes, I usually avoid sugary stuff. As I get older, I’ve noticed my teeth are getting sensitive and eating sugar hurts my teeth. About the only thing I can handle with sugar is ice cream and drinks, I guess because the sugar in those dissolves away quicker; cakes pies and candy are usually too rich for my tastes.

I think I read recently even citrus or pomegranate eats away at your teeth instantly, so I try to rinse or drink water right after.

 

[lsa]

Interesting... I don't drink soda and haven't for a very long time. I was exhausted, needed caffeine and the only option available was coke.

After the first sip, I gagged. It was just liquid sugar... absolutely vile shit.

This is also my experience..
If you have not had sugar for a long time it wont taste good it will taste too sweet and "sticky".
Its sugar not cocaine

 

[KeepingItReal]

I don't drink alcohol, soda or even juice. I only drink water.

I was at someone's house and got offered a can of sprite. My first time drinking soda in 25 years. The first sip was almost a religious experience. Sucks going back to water after drinking that. It's crazy how good sugar makes you feel.

If anything, your experience should tell you that sugar is not addictive at all. After all, you went a quarter of century without drinking a soda, which is just sugar water.

There is research on this as well. Here is the conclusion from one study titled "Sugar addiction: the state of the science"

"We find little evidence to support sugar addiction in humans, and findings from the animal literature suggest that addiction-like behaviours, such as bingeing, occur only in the context of intermittent access to sugar. These behaviours likely arise from intermittent access to sweet tasting or highly palatable foods, not the neurochemical effects of sugar."

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5174153/

 

[TJ Dillashank]

Interesting... I don't drink soda and haven't for a very long time. I was exhausted, needed caffeine and the only option available was coke.

After the first sip, I gagged. It was just liquid sugar... absolutely vile shit.

I had a bottle of coke for the first time in years last week and only finished because I felt obligated after the $4.15 I spent. How people drink that crap is beyond me and Pepsi is even worse.

 

[Ardaric]

I have a theory that Americans have hummingbird genes spliced into them. Subconciously they think they need huge amounts sugar so they can hover in the air and have a heart rate of over 1000 bpm. I can think of no other reason why someone would tip syrup all of their breakfast.