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This suggests there's something really reinforcing going on here.
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What do we make of this as a field?
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Well, Avena, Rada, and Hoebel are three people
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doing this research in Princeton,
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and their summary of this is that:
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Rats with intermittent access to a sugar solution
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can show both a constellation of
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behaviors and parallel brain changes that are characteristic of rats
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that voluntary self-administer addictive drugs.
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In conclusion,
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this is evidence that under some circumstances sugar can be addictive.
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What we're seeing in these animal models are