Humans have an especially sweet tooth because of our enormous, energy-hungry brains. Especially during development.
Plus most snacks are mimicking some original common food. Though I don't know if anything chocolate mimicks.
But fruity candy like Skittles and starburst are generally mimicking fruit and berries which also come with tons of vitamins.
Salty, crispy snacks like chips and Cheetos are generally mimicking insects, especially cooked insects like mealworms and crickets.
Sodas mimic things like fruit juices.
But yeah, our uniquely sweet tooth comes from our big brains.
We also have a unique taste for sour, fermented, and spicy things that many/most mammals either can't taste or are repelled by.
Damn it just hits the taste buds different, I ain’t much for candy or chocolate but like energy drinks and sodas is what I abuse
Hhahaha cool ig
When we eat sweet stuff then a certain hormone is released which makes us feel as happy as getting full marks in exam. Also in ancient times people checked if a fruit is safe or not by checking whether it is sweet or not. If it is sweet it isn't poisonous.
Dr Oz said it’s addictive so if you don’t eat it you won’t feel you need it but if you are addicted you want to keep eating it - just like some never touch alcohol and some feel miserable if they do not eat it.
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Sugar and sweets existed for a long time in non manufactured forms.
There are many ways sugar addiction works. The biggest reason people eat sweet junk is because their parents raise them this way, even at school i had to tell teachers I'm not eating that junkfood. Replace it with real food that gives you limitless energy and you'll realize that the sugar "high" actually sucks.
We get a hit of dopamine as I understand it. Fats do similar. A Mac Donald's happy meal does make me happier when I am down.
Sugar has been in our diets forever. Ripe fruits, sweet peas, honey = sugars.
Once upon a time, food was seasonal and local produce. New potatoes were available in new potatoe season. Sweet oranges and apples in their season. We used to look forward to foods coming into season.
Industrial agriculture changed all that with sugar cane leading the way. All of a sudden we could have as much sugar we want all year around. We took to it like ducks to water.
Sugar always existed, it's one of the foundations of multicellular life. The reason you like it so much is that it's pure energy, and energy is everything from an evolutionary perspective (besides reproduction), and therefore it's all your body cares about. Evolution just didn't get the chance to adjust to the fact that we can manufacture it out of the ass now, so you still crave it like your life depends on it.
I think because our body recognises sugar as a big source of energy, sweets are considered by centuries a delicacy because of their particular flavour. Also refined foods have a lot of studies for the correct combination of sweetness and softness to obtain the maximum pleasure (it also exists for salty foods). So our body releases some hormones like serotonin or some others (I ask pardon to all scientists, I’m not an expert) that causes the perception of pleasure.
Some years = about 4 centuries!
I used to be so addicted to chocolate. Once my mom sent me 5 lbs of fudge. It arrived on Friday. I called to talk to her on Monday. She asked how everyone liked the fudge... silence. then she asked "did you share any of the fudge?"
No.
"So you ate all 5 lbs of fudge in 3 days?"
Yup.
Um... no, sugar exists naturally in plants, and animals require glucose to function/not die, so they have to eat plants, or eat other animals that eat plants.
We don't manufacture sugar, we harvest it, usually from sugarcane plants, citrus fruits, and a few herbs. You like sugar because its the body's natural way to have energy, low blood sugar is VERY dangerous, but then so is high blood sugar.
Sugar has existed before we existed. It is the only thing our brains burn. Sugar isn't manufactured it is refined; refining is the process of removing impurities. It is often from the sugar cane plant. Photosynthesis is the process of taking water and CO2 and converting it into oxygen and sugar utilizing the energy of sunlight. Your DNA is 1/3 sugar. As mammals we nurse our young on sugar water that is created by mammary glands. Plant cells have an extra organelle that other organisms don't have it is a cell wall, just outside the cell membrane, it is made up entirely of sugar. So everytime you eat a fruit or vegetable you're eating a bunch of sugar. Sugar is life.
Sugar is more addictive than cocaine so the answer is pretty easy to solve.
Lmao that's the funniest argument I've ever heard in my life. Guess you also need to look up Guy addicted to water. It's literally a thing. There is also psychogenic polydipsia which is a disorder that's all about uncontrollably drinking water. Sounds like one may need find it helpful to study and learn about such topics before they say the most dumbest shit I've ever heard. Cannot be addicted to something necessary to life just seriously what? I can't stop from laughing.
What you are talking about is obsessive compulsive behavior. Not a true addiction to the substances. I can go my entire life and never use cocaine and be fine. I can't go a week without water nor a month without sugar. Also the study that they used to "prove" it is more addictive was with rats. By adding both substances to a water feeder. All that proves is that rats prefer sugar water to cocaine water.
@shortster Your lack of understanding really shows here lol. Bringing up it been used on rats somehow don't prove anything yet that's how we have to test things on animals because on humans it would unethical. And all humans are are animals with the same compulsions. And somehow you think people can only be addicted to things that we don't need and is only limited to certain group of people who overuse things we need to live. That's not how it works at all.
@shortster WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING HERE
Actually they do test things on people including their addictive properties. As a toxicologist I often read these studies as part of my job. Not all drugs effect animals the same way they effect humans and studies on rodents are useful; but often don't translate. Animal studies on chimpanzees have the highest translation rate and even that is not 100%. Plus I was critizing more the methodology of the study; than the test subjects used.
@shortster Yes they test somethings on humans when they can and their are some differences but it often implies commonality. Rats are a very good subject though and used Widley for a reason.
@shortster guys dtop that
@shortster stoppppp
@shortster Then you've just missed the whole point of the question and my answer so well done. But if you ever want to look into why people over eat stuff with sugar in... I'll give you hint it's to do with sugar been addictive oh what a surprise. And love sweets, pop and the rest oh what a shocker. lol.
@shortster hahah i just don't like getting notificationns i guess i will mute it until u stop lol
@shortster Ah but now your talking about sugar that's not overused. Which is whole other subject to sweets lmao. The sugar amount in a apple is not comparable.
I think it would help if you look into why people get unhealthy. By eating sugary things and drinking as such which supresses the fact of them feeling full which leads to overeating it's very telling of how sugar put into things is very unhealthy compared to just a simple apple. And how that becomes very easily addictive and leads to many problems. There is a reason why a doctor recommends an apple not a lollipop.
That's all addictive patterns and addiction. Meanwhile if your eating healthy you won't get a urge to be addicted to such things. But there is a reason why when one eats on pringle they don't stop there. Compared to a apple.
Sorry @marianna546 for annoying with notifications, I won't even mention salt because well that's gonna start a whole other thing that I would love to aruge with this guy about but also cannot be bothered either lol. I am done now so if he replies it won't get a respond.
Interesting how he argued with me yet many others here also pointed out it's addictive. But it was fun while it lasted did make me laugh.
Again I am sorry though. I am one to always defend my opinion quite a bit.
The average apple has 25g of sugar; a Milky Way has 21g. The apple is healthier than the Milky Way because it has a bunch of vitamins and minerals and the Milky Way doesn't. I think that it is telling that when you talk about sugars from fruits it is healthy; but from sweets they are addicting. Yet the glucose you find in a lollipop is the same glucose you find in an apple. Since they got that glucose by pulling it out of another plant. People are unhealthy because life is about finding balance. And the FDA decided that fat was bad for us and so food companies responded by reducing the fat content of their food. However, since that ruined how the food tastes they added more sugar to make up for it. Throwing the natural balance of fat and sugar in our diets out of balance. Instead of addressing the primary problem of unhealthy diets of the time, overeating. If we continue down the road of sugar = bad, like we did with fat. Food companies will cut out sugars and jack up fats and in twenty years people will be talking about how fat is an addictive substance and we're all unhealthy because of it. Because it is so much easier to blame a molecule than our own self control. Or an overbearing government that incentives companies to mess with the natural dietary balance of our foods. Though with the current geopolitics, it is likely a moot point as we will all be starving from food shortages. As Russia and Ukraine account for 40% of the world's wheat supply; on top of the fertilizer shortage. And the US decision to burn more food as fuel for cars; instead of drilling for oil.
Dammit have to make final words. Moderation does not make something not addictive, you can also drink alcohol in moderation but that does not mean alcohol ain't addictive. You can do the same with smoking just because someone smokes a for a couple days don't mean they will be addicted to it. Yet still is addictive. So that's that really.
Really is the last I am saying on it though 100%.
I didn't see the other people who were saying that. I was only passively scrolling through the replies when I saw yours. If you want me to argue my point with them I can do that later. As I have to go to work soon. As for salts, sodium, potassium, calcium, and chlorine are all essential for proper neurological function. When one neuron releases its neurotransmitters; the neuron next to it reacts by a cascading release of one of these four salt ions.
@shortster who told sugar is necessary?
Well it’s been in England since 11th Century due to Crusades.
Sweet food have been a major thing for centuries.
Also add in chocolate and it’s mmmm.
Well European Chocolate is, US stuff is fairly crap tbh.
Sugars always existed... It's naturally occurring... Anyways sugar gives us energy so our brains are hardwired to like it and reward us by eating it with dopamine.
Because it taste very good and we are told it’s bad for us. When something delicious is rated as bad we rate as good or great.
Eve taught us that when she ate the forbidden apple and still today we eat and enjoy apples. Moral of the story is do not always believe what you are told. So eat and enjoy the sweets.
Just like with anything else in life if he gives us pleasure we're going to do it we want to do it because we want to experience it and feel it different sugars different h i g h s different feelings
because sugar salt fat alcohol are all drugs
designed to make the manufacturers rich and mess up peoples health
its all called capitalism and marketing and sales
Capitalism is trash i prefer communism
whys that?
Because communism is fair
what makes u think that can you go into detail please
As per studies, salt is the largest addiction
You prefer communism?
Go move to Cuba.
I work with a guy whose parents barely escaped Cuba.
Anyone who WANTS communism simply hasn't studied history and is ignorant.
If you have never had to earn every penny and pay taxes and buy every bite of food and pay all the bills then your opinion is completely irrelevant.
It's as silly as wanting to be a princess and live in a castle and be surrounded by fairies.
Communism is tyranny.
When members of your family are arrested in the middle of the night and tortured to death and the girls and boys used by those in power and murdered when they hit puberty... then tell me again you prefer communism.
Well trust me i know
@marianna546
how do u know where are you from?
My family is Russian but lived in Uzbekistan and there actually were nothing like what y'all are saying... Everyone were equal and life was perfect then. My grandmother wants it back and says life was better then. No one was killing anyone lmao
@marianna546
hi its very nice to speak with someone that knows it from the other side hope u follow me so we can chat more
This isn't the first time I hear it. Especially older people who lived in many countries say we've been brainwashed about the communism being so scary.
@roy_ricky09 sodium is essential for our survival. So is healthy fat.
Uh glucose, salt and fat are essential for humans to survive...
@Subarugirl out of those 3, without sodium you'll die the soonest. Eskimos don't have access to any plants to eat, meaning glucose isn't as essential as fat.
@Subarugirl no they are not and defo not in the refined processed way that they are sold to us now!
@Guy__ Glucose is one of the foundations of multicellular life. Sugar in it's simplest is one of the building blocks of life
@Subarugirl as mentioned Eskimos dont eat sugar
We had been eating fruits for billions of years before deserts were made. Sweet just indicates "ripe" meaning when fruits become safer to eat which is what made us evolve to like sweet. That's one factor
It always existed. But we didn’t consume it as much as we do now. We don’t cook in the house anymore so going out and getting whatever has become high priority
Yea, that's why I still have bulima 7 years later lol
I think we like sweets cause they help fill the void in my life I love eating donuts and ice cream when I've had a bad day
It is evolution. Sugar and other sweet foods provide people with quick energy which was useful a millennia ago. Same thing with fatty foods, they provide stored energy to help people through the winters.
Sugar is naturally grown and comes from sugar cane which has been around for hundreds of years rum is also made from sugar cane and rum has been available for centuries.
Evolution -- generally animals live in a condition of chronic food shortage. When food is available, they eat. They are attracted to sugar because it provides concentrated calories.
I love sweets especially during that time of the month
sugar is addictive its no wounder sugar is in so much food really almost all packaged food has sugar or fructose
Cause sugar besided being a poison for your body is addictive. Be careful! Diabetes kills a person every six seconds in the world
I know all of the sugar disadvantages, but I can’t stop eating sugary products, what can I do?
@Selena1987 Eat/use honey or maple syrup instead, but of course don't overdo it. And be careful, because some brands put sugar in these as well..
You could also find a sweetener that you like the taste/aftertaste of the most, but some say sweeteners can be also bad for you.
For example i like the Hermesetas brand of sweeteners the most, i think it's based on Saccharin, Sucralose and Cyclamate.
@Selena1987 it's a slow process. Start cutting minimums once you have progressed you can start cutting bigger quantities. Or will be difficult at first but at some point you won't even miss it
I actually don’t have a sweet tooth. I’m more of a savoury person and can easily turn down and say no to something sweet.
Gives a good sensation to our tiny little taste buds xD. Dopamine released by its consumption helps as well
Evolutionary reward system. Calorie dense foods are sweet.
Actually i can't eat sweets. I can't use even sugar for tea or coffe. No salt , no sugar. i prefer sour :S
Sweet fruit is fruit that is ripe and has more nutrients than their unripe counterparts. Sugars provide quick energy needed for a body that needs to move to survive.
I seriously don't know why girls love sweets so much? Try and help solve the mystery 😉😁
There are plenty of ancient references to honey, which is neither new nor manufactured.
What do you mean it didn't exist? Sugar is in fruits. It gives energy. Unused energy gets stored as fat.
Something like that.
Fruits are naturally sweet and people like fruits but things were overdone and people overdo it
most guys don't.
women gravitate toward it b/c their bodies are always screaming at them to put on weight to support pregnancy.
Who me? I am sweet enough as it is, lol.
Hahhaha yeah sure
Well, they do taste good.
Because when your poor, it's a good filler to the hunger
I don't. I hardly eat or drink anything sweet.
Why?
I don't know. Never enjoyed sweets
Oh so unique
Because women are insatiable in their decadence. Caligula would blush.
Because it tastes good.
Also while refined sugars may not have existed, natural sugars, such as those found in fruit, most certainly did.
Sweets have always existed as fruits and honey
Because they taste good. They hit the brains reward system like drugs and alcohol.
Lol sugar has been around for thousands of years
We are talking about processed sugar, Ms. Einstein. You are obsessed with correcting people over everything and it’s extremely annoying.
@OneManOnly01 calm kiddo. She didn't mention anything about processed sugar
Stop calling me that, are you a boomer or something? And it’s your fault that you couldn’t make the assumption that she’s talking about processed sugar because her question made that obvious.
@OneManOnly01 Then stop acting like a child. If she was talking about processed sugar then she should have specified that. Anyway processed sugar has been around since the early 1800s
Anything obvious doesn’t have to be specified. But the question is, why do you have to keep taking jabs at everyone all the time?
@OneManOnly01 it wasn't a jab at her, sugar has been around for thousands of years and processed sugar has been around for over 2 centuries.
Wrong! The first chemically refined (also crystallised) sugar was invented at least 1650 years ago in India.
@OneManOnly01 you do understand what over 2 centuries means right? Or did you forget in your scramble to try and be a pretentious little know it all XD
@OneManOnly01 Oh and just incase you don't know what pretentious means, it's defined as attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, knowledge, etc., than is actually possessed...
@Subarugirl That was just a little taste of your own medicine. Now you know how annoying that is. And don’t you think you rounded off the number a bit too much?😂 Straight from 1650 to ‘over 200’.
@OneManOnly01 I’m glad that you came around and agree withy original statement.
@Subarugirl Yeah sure, you ‘win’. Happy now?
@OneManOnly01 it’s adorable when you try so hard
@Subarugirl So are you going to ignore the fact that *you* are the one who’s always obsessed with correcting every little mistake anyone makes.
@OneManOnly01 that’s ironic coming from you lol
@Subarugirl It might seem that way to you because I am only obsessed with correcting YOU since you need to be given a taste of your own medicine at times.
@OneManOnly01 awe you’re obsessed, i was wondering why you kept following me around like a lost puppy. That’s adorable
@Subarugirl Your mom never taught you any manners obviously
@OneManOnly01 my mom and dad taught me that respect is earned and not to take shit from anyone.
AND they also didn’t teach you any manners. You’ll never get that ‘respect’ with your behaviour anyway.
@OneManOnly01 hahahaha oh I’m sorry that was funny. I don’t care about weather a child like yourself respects me or not. I don’t like you. Im respected by my peers, family, coworkers and clients. your opinion really has no affect on me or my life what so ever. My manners are reserved for those who deserve them.. not whiny children
@Subarugirl You’re such a prick. I wonder how you get away with this behaviour in real life. I’m pretty sure everybody close to you hates you too or maybe they are also just like you
@OneManOnly01 you wouldn’t know sweetheart.
Talk like that to your mother, not me.
@OneManOnly01 hahah I actually respect my mother.
You are getting really annoying now just get lost please
@OneManOnly01 lol you're the one following me around like lost puppy, commenting on my posts. If you don't want to be here than leave sweetie no one is making you stay.
I don't know why
Sugar is addictive. 🤪
Sugar is addictive, plain and simple.
m it's called serotonin, and dopamine...
@marianna546 Suck honey from? 😊🤣🤣
Makes us feel good. The sugar makes us happy
Kids love them, i only like them.
It releases dopamine in your brain
Because they’re refined sugars not natural
Hormones.
They taste good
Taste buds
sugar fix
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