Heres what happens to your brain when you give up sugar for Lent

Heres what happens to your brain when you give up sugar for Lent- Anyone who knows me also knows that I have a huge sweet tooth. I always have. My friend and fellow graduate student Andrew is equally afflicted, and living in Hershey, Pennsylvania – the “Chocolate Capital of the World” – doesn’t help either of us.But Andrew is braver than I am. Last year, he gave up sweets for Lent. I can’t say that I’m following in his footsteps this year, but if you are abstaining from sweets for Lent this year, here’s what you can expect over the next 40 days.Sugar: natural reward, unnatural fixIn neuroscience, food is something we call a “natural reward…

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