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Sugar addiction is the term for the relationship between sugar and the various aspects of food addiction including "bingeing, withdrawal, craving and cross-sensitization". Some scientists assert that consumption of sweets or sugar could have a heroin addiction-like effect, but recent reviews suggest that sugar addiction does not occur in humans.
Controlled trials have now shown unequivocally that consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages increases body weight and body fat, and that replacement of sugar by artificial sweeteners reduces weight.
A sugar tax is set to be introduced in Ireland to minimise the consumption of harmful foods and drinks. $

















