This is pretty obvious when we compare sugar 'addiction' with, say, alcohol abuse No one is stealing bags of candy because they spent their last dollar on maple syrup and they need another hit
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Either we redefine addiction to be so broad as to include almost any behaviour that we'd like to do less (sitting 'addiction' anyone?) or we recognize that sugar isn't 'addictive' in the technical or colloquial sense, it's a different kind of problem
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well, that woman does "sugar addiction assessments"
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Oh wow I didn't see that. Not an ideal business model, that
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It also mischaracterizes foods like donuts (third tweet in her thread) as being addictive because of sugar, when in fact we know that it’s the combination of fat and sugar that makes it so easy to overindulge. Most donuts have more kcal from fat than sugar too I do believe.
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