In Elle, one article the author cites the results of a a15-year study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association: Internal Medicine, U.S. adults of all ages whose daily calorie count consisted of 17 to 21 percent added sugar (not naturally found in food) were more than a third more likely to die of heart disease than those who kept their consumption to less than 8 percent of the total—regardless of their BMIs.
In the same article, the results of a survey show that being weaned off of sugar has health effects including "low energy, depression, flulike symptoms, and mental fogginess, at least temporarily. Ninety-five percent of the participants demonstrated that in two weeks of abstaining from sugar there was a change in taste preference. They claimed that many sugary foods and drinks were too sweet. All in all, the participants claimed they had intense sugar cravings within 3 days and in 6 days some suffered from headaches. So you see, the brain does act differently on sugar!
This is Your Brain on Sugar. Sarah Elizabeth Richards. Elle. February 29, 2016. http://www.elle.com/beauty/health-fitness/a33810/this-is-your-brain-on-sugar/
Added sugar intake and cardiovascular diseases mortality among US adults. JAMA internal medicin , Vol. 174, No. 4. (April 2014), pp. 516-524 by Quanhe Yang, Zefeng Zhang, Edward W. Gregg, et al. http://www.citeulike.org/user/kimberlykramer2015/article/13533893
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