Would a complete stop on eating sweets lower a blood sugar rating and to what degree?
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Last updated on 31 July 2025
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Hi,
Not a good idea, speaking from experience.
Sugar can be addictive, some say sugar is addictive as cocaine, therefore most likely withdrawals will affect you.
" Eating sugar releases opioids and dopamine in our bodies. This is the link between added sugar and addictive behavior."
Sugar addiction: pushing the drug-sugar analogy to the limit
Purpose of review: To review research that tests the validity of the analogy between addictive drugs, like cocaine, and hyperpalatable foods, notably those high in added sugar (i.e., sucrose).
Recent findings: Available evidence in humans shows that sugar and sweetness can induce reward and craving that are comparable in magnitude to those induced by addictive drugs. Although this evidence is limited by the inherent difficulty of comparing different types of rewards and psychological experiences in humans, it is nevertheless supported by recent experimental research on sugar and sweet reward in laboratory rats. Overall, this research has revealed that sugar and sweet reward can not only substitute to addictive drugs, like cocaine, but can even be more rewarding and attractive. At the neurobiological level, the neural substrates of sugar and sweet reward appear to be more robust than those of cocaine (i.e., more resistant to functional failures), possibly reflecting past selective evolutionary pressures for seeking and taking foods high in sugar and calories.
Summary: The biological robustness in the neural substrates of sugar and sweet reward may be sufficient to explain why many people can have difficultly to control the consumption of foods high in sugar when continuously exposed to them.
Source: National Library of Medicine
Regards, masso
One last aspect of this interesting post:
The human brain relies on glucose as its primary food, glucose is a distinct type of sugar, it´s known as blood sugar/blood glucose also when it´s in our bloodstream.
One can say glucose is like the fuel for powering the human brain, cells and tissue and it´s obtained from the foods we eat.
A word of advice:
I consider sugar to be an addictive licit drug, and like any drug/medication it must be stopped gradually in order to reach an acceptable level, but stopping the intake of sugar suddenly, you may collapse.
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