Are You Afraid of Sugar or Do You Just Like It?

There's a difference between liking and wanting for sure. We do see some of those same effects that happen to the brain but that could just be increasing seeking behavior. Our brains just haven't figured out how to deal with in a really calorically dense environment. It's so much easier to eat some sour patch kids than it is to pick 20 tangerines exactly I literally just ate Swedish fish because I couldn't find food I eat. You can read up on Georgia's research via her April 2022 published paper acute high intensity interval exercise attenuates incubation of craving for foods high in fat.

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