Kelly wants to know, are sugar addictions real?

They are real. In fact, you can even show the brain effects of sugar on the first day of life.

The taste of sugar on the tongue triggers the release of opiates in the brain, opiate triggering.

In turn, triggers the release of dopamine, which is the pleasure chemical.

It doesn't have the strength of recreational drugs, but it is strong enough to keep you up.

Well, hello there. And welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee.

Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll.

Thank you so very much for giving the show a listen, or a view, or a download, wherever it is in the world that you are.

We appreciate the fact that you are here.

And today we are doing part five of our diet myth series, getting to the bottom of what is fact and what is fiction.

You may have seen so many of these things floating around Twitter or Facebook.

Well, today we are giving the blue checkmark to the truth and helping us clear up that confusion, our doctors Neil Barnard and Jim Lumus.

And we have so many great questions once again this week already.

At the top of the show, right out of the gate, you learn that sugar can in fact be addictive.

Opioid-like properties, right?

But Dr. Barnard did not stop there with his answer.

We're also going to learn how you can overcome those addictions and make sugar addiction a thing of the past.

Plus, we are going to put butter in a head to head battle with milk.

Somebody wrote in wanting to know, is one worse than the other.

Or can you even compare the two?

Well, we'll be getting some advice there, and is it true somebody wanted to know that certain foods can cause the body to create its own bad cholesterol?

That was a great question from Wayne.

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