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JJ Virgin<\/a>, CNS Celebrity Nutrition & Fitness Expert, author The Virgin Diet and the new Sugar Impact Diet\u00a0 was interviewed on the Anxiety Summit by host of the Anxiety Summit<\/a>, Trudy Scott, Food Mood Expert and Nutritionist, author of The Antianxiety Food Solution.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n “The Sugar Impact Diet” and stress\/anxiety Here is a snippet from our interview:<\/p>\n When you look at it, sugar is as addictive as cocaine. It\u2019s more addictive than morphine. Connecticut College did a study where they looked at morphine and Oreos with rats and they both lit up the same pleasure centers\/reward centers in the brain. The only difference was when the rats were given a choice between morphine and Oreos; they picked the Oreos because they were more pleasurable. Maybe it\u2019s because with the Oreos you got a little trifecta because when you look at it what\u2019s the worst thing? So sugar lights up the reward center and then you\u2019ve got gluten and dairy, opiates, you know, caseomorphins and gluteomorphins and so just an opiate load to you when you look at something like cereal and milk, right, with all the sugar, gluten and dairy. So clearly you\u2019ve got a drug and the more of it you eat the more of it you want.<\/p>\n stress and anxiety make you crave more sugar, you\u2019re hungrier overall and then tired so you want things that are quick, energetic pick-me-ups and have unstable blood sugar. It\u2019s like this trifecta of bad for setting you up for going after sugar<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
<\/strong>– The role stress and anxiety play in sugar addiction
\u2013 Why sugar is a drug and what it\u2019s doing to our health and mood
\u2013 Why all sugar is not created equal and where it hides
\u2013 Why fructose is worse than glucose
\u2013 Can we eat natural sugars, fruit, honey and agave
\u2013 The dangers of artificial sweeteners
\u2013 Signs of high sugar impact and how the sugar impact diet works
\u2013 Why snacking may not be a good thing<\/p>\n\n