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Why do we love junk food so much?

Tai Asks Why

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What Happens With Junk Food?

Fruit takes a while to work its way through your digestive system and the sugar has to slowly be absorbed by your body. But when you get a junk food, these are so ultra processed food that when you consume it very rapidly, super quickly, they are increasing the sugar in your blood,. And that produces a big peak of these feel good molecule, dopamine. Dopamine also is related with our memory. So you remember that flavor, that food that made you feel so good and you want to have it again. Which leads to a feeling I'm very familiar with and I think you guys are too. The sugar rush.

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