Industrial sweeteners such as drugs, capable of altering people's behaviors. Can sweeteners used industrially for the production of foods such as biscuits and snacks be addictive? According to recent research, industrial sweeteners, such as fructose, have similar effects to cocaine.
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Industrial sweeteners such as drugs, capable of altering people's behaviors. THE sweeteners used industrially for the production of foods such as biscuits and snacks can create dependence? According to recent research, industrial sweeteners like it corn-derived fructose syrup, would have cocaine-like effects.
The experts of theGuleph University, who have undertaken to analyze the effects of the sugary syrup extracted from corn commonly used as a sweetener by thefood industry. This ingredient would represent one of the first causes of both obesity and a real addiction to packaged sweets.
The effects of eating foods sweetened with extracts obtained from corn syrup would be similar to what is shown for drugs such as cocaine. Industrial sweet foods and cocaine, in the opinion of experts, guided by Francesco Leri, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Applied Cognitive Sciences, would both be able to challenge a real addiction.
We could explain the apparent in this way addiction to sweets which some people seem affected by? In the opinion of the experts theobesity epidemic which affects some industrialized countries could be explained precisely in the form of addiction, with particular reference to sweet foods and their excessive consumption. In the opinion of the authors of the study, the overabundance of food present in industrialized countries alone cannot be defined as a real cause of obesity.
For the same amount of food available, not all people become obese, as is evident by observing the population. It is therefore hypothesized that obesity can be triggered by the onset of a real addiction to sweets, which could be linked to the use of certain industrial sweeteners.
In particular, the fructose syrup derived from corn, named within the study in question as high fructose corn syrup. It would be able to influence the same brain circuits linked to the creation of an addiction, both in the case of cocaine and in the case of industrially sweetened foods. And then been indicated as capable of causing insulin resistance, hypertension and diabetes, not to mention the fact that it could be derived from more GMO. The dioendency caused by this ingredient could lead some individuals to strongly desire to take sweets, until they can not do without it, as would happen with drugs. Avoiding sweets and industrial confectionery could represent one solution to limit the spread of obesity?
Marta Albè
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