Intense sweetness surpasses cocaine reward.
<h4>Background</h4>Refined sugars (e.g., sucrose, fructose) were absent in the diet of most people until very recently in human history. Today overconsumption of diets rich in sugars contributes together with other factors to drive the current obesity epidemic. Overconsumption of sugar-d...
Main Authors: | Magalie Lenoir, Fuschia Serre, Lauriane Cantin, Serge H Ahmed |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2007-08-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000698 |
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