With this expert-backed guide, you can eat less sugar and stop cravings without feeling deprived—and lower your risk of chronic diseases in the process.
Sep 7, 2021
There are two main types of sugar. Simple sugars are made up of only one or two sugar molecules and found in foods like candy, soda, fruit juice, honey, and table sugar. Complex sugars involve three or more linked sugar molecules and are found in foods like apples, broccoli, lentils, spinach, and unrefined whole grains. The latter are digested and absorbed more slowly, so eating them doesn’t cause sudden blood sugar spikes.
This is also where things get tricky: Sugar sources like honey and maple syrup technically come from nature and are considered better choices than cane sugar, but when they act as sweeteners in packaged products or you mix some into your morning oatmeal, that’s adding it, so it counts toward your daily added- sugar consumption.
Sugar isn’t the only dopamine- producing food, but it’s unique in terms of how the body reacts to it. “Usually when we eat something new and tasty, dopamine is released the first time we taste it,” explains Avena. “This is an evolutionary advantage to help us pay attention to new tastes, in case they make us sick. If we eat something new and don’t get sick, typically the dopamine response goes away the next time.
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