What's happening is the sugar is triggering production of our brain's opioids - a key to the addiction process. The brain is getting addicted to its own opioids as it would morphine or heroin. Drugs have a bigger effect, but it is essentially the same process. In addition to throwing off the body's homeostasis, excess sugar may result in a number of other significant consequences. Here's a list of my top 10 reasons to stay clear of processed sugar from a variety of medical journals and other scientific publications. 1. Sugar feeds cancer cells and has been connected with the [...]