Society's Sweet Tooth... the Brain's Response to Sugar | Amanda Maracle | TEDxQueensU
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- Normally, when we think of addiction the image of an alcoholic or someone that is a drug addict pops into our heads. That is what society tells us and that is what we have been lead to believe. However, what if you could be addicted to sugar? What if sugar, in high doses, had similar effects on your brain chemistry as cocaine? What is everything you thought about addiction was actually wrong? Amanda will explore these questions and highlight why we should rethink the way we define addiction within our society.
Amanda is currently completing her Ph.D. in Brain, Behavior, and Cognitive Sciences in the Department of Psychology at Queen’s University. Her research investigates the behavioral and neurological changes associated with the development of compulsive substance intake within addiction. In addition to her research, she teaches several undergraduate courses for the department of Psychology, and collaborates on a number of research projects at Kingston General Hospital. She also volunteers her time as an executive committee member for the Kingston Regional Heritage Fair, and is involved with the newly developed PhD-Community Initiative currently being piloted by the School of Graduate Studies at Queen's.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
almost two years without sugar. I can finally taste the sugar and crave every day vegetables , fruits, whole grains, beans. I have trained my body to hate junk food and sugar.
This is goals! I am going to get rid of sugars completely. I gave up my sugary coffee addiction about 3 weeeks ago. Quit sodas and sugar drinks. Now i just have to get rid of fructose corn syrup which is in almost everything
goals!!
I am not the same coz I still use little amount of Sugar in my tea. But no processed & packet food, no other use of sugar as well. I've even reduced take aways by a LOT. I am appreciating all fruits and vegetables. Luckily I get grass fed meat too.
Vegetables convert to gluccose
Fruits convert to fructose.
Grains are sugars as well.
The only foods that have zero sugar is meats.
@@jeffconnors3918 Yes but putting a carrot and a sundae ice cream from McDonalds just because they are both carbohydrates is pretty much bs to me. Save your comments on mine next time. Focus on others if you gotta comment on something.
I was addicted to sugar almost all my life. I would binge and try again and again to go on diets and always fail. I felt like that I just didn't have enough will power to stop. UNTIL I went on the Ketogenic Diet. After 3 days all my cravings for food or sugar went away. I could go without eating for 8 hours and not being hungry! I later realised that I had been hypoglycemic and suffered from insulin resistance and this is why I was sooooo hungry and would binge all the time...
I didn't need a ketogenic diet, but I did need to go cold turkey on ALL sweet foods
After enough time, normal foods like carrots taste much better
Do you think the food manufacturers didn't figure out the addictive properties of sugar a long time ago? Ever wonder why sugar is in almost everything that you find in a grocery store?
Yeah, on purpose, people act so shocked. WhY would they dooo that? Recoiling in horror, basically. I'm not perfect, far from it. Just sucks.
I just tried to find canned tomatoes without sugar, and they did not exist at my grocery store!
@@karenpierce6424 because it is impossible. It is like finding an apple without sugar in it.
Well, it is possible if they extract the sugar from the tomatoes, but what is the point.
@@sj0nnie She is referring to the sugar that is added to the cans, not the natural sugar found in the tomatoes.
I think simply because they have observed an increase of the sales each time they added some sugars in their products.
I've tried to stop sugar about 30 or so times and was unsuccessful. I go through a literal withdrawal with legitimate physical _and_ mental symptoms.
When I tell people "I'm addicted to sugar," they giggle thinking that I'm joking or exaggerating... But it's actually true, I really _am_ addicted!
It's humiliating to admit =(
I quit sugar my belly slimmed down alot its been 2 weeks. I eat fruits. You can do it.
thanks, me too.
Me to, cracking open a can of coke is as addictive as liking up a cig for me
@@josephramdin7031 tx sugar is a drug and a food. I was a sugar addict from the womb. Powerful substance. Once I start I cannot stop. good luck and God bless
try carnivore diet.
Thought provoking. I am battling addictive behaviors like playing with my phone, also tied into procrastinating behaviors. I gave up eating added sugar about a week ago and I intend to continue that for a lifetime; I appreciate the reminder to look at other behaviors.
Love this I wish they would teach this in schools, school canteens (I'm in Australia) have so much sugar content its crazy! I have to admit I have had sugar crashes in the past to the point where I fall asleep. I now have stevia, and it takes a lot of getting used to. I now do RTT (hypnotherapy) and have clients with sugar addiction. its real and people are becoming more and more aware of it. But if I have anything with sugar at home my brain think about it continuously so I just throw it out, especially when people bring cakes and sweets over Christmas. I have chickens and they don't eat anything sweet! Just goes to show that even they know better!
MacD's put sugar in their burgers
@@zybala2 There's sugar in the burger meat, sugar in the bread buns, sugar in the sauces like tomato ketchup/salad dressing and even the gherkins are dipped in a sugar solution. The fries are coated in sugar to make them brown evenly as well - in fact if you watch the "Supersize Me" documentary, after Morgan Spurlock literally chases down the nutritional information for the entire McDonalds menu there's only FOUR items on the entire menu that do not contain sugar of any sort.
@@moochincrawdad Sugar is in their salt packets, or used to be. I read it myself.
@@yellowbird5411 I wouldn't put it past them to do that! 🤔
Well when told you gonna die if U don't change diet.Go keto in just 2 months my life changed for better.lost weight no medications life back to normal
Mental addiction definition
In comparison to physical addiction, psychological addiction occurs when a person does not have a physical need for a drug but rather a mental desire for it. Psychological addiction is most common in people who use substances like marijuana.
Physical addiction definition
Physical addiction: Physical addiction refers to the compulsive need for a drug or substance in order to prevent the withdrawal symptoms (physical and/or psychological) or due to increased tolerance to the effects of the substance
Darn....my first name's Barbara and my aunts and uncles would ALWAYS bring candy when they came to visit. And then they wondered why I was gaining weight. I WAS NOT an overeater :-( I did not have my own money...and as a kid, was exposed to candy when I moved to the States. Up until then... living overseas...never had candy.
I avoid refined sugar. Too much of it makes me feel like crap. I must be the odd one out because I don't find it addictive at all.
Vegas Cycling Freak True, just like not everyone who has an occasional drink of alcohol becomes alcoholic -- It's not addictive for everyone.
It has a lot to do with what tickles that pleasure response in your brain. I don't associate sugar with pleasure or alcohol with pleasure, so I don't think it will ever be a problem for me.
are you sure you're avoiding sugar. We're not talking about white sugar table that one adds to their coffee, but rather sugar, in all its hidden forms (sucrose, glucose, honey, etc.) that manufacturers add to everything from toothpaste to tomato sauce. Read the labels and good luck!
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Raw honey occasionally is in order - too expensive to binge on anyway. A little sugar added at times, like with some tomato sauce, or a piece of cake at a birthday celebration; this is not really the problem.
Drinking loads of sugar constantly; like what happens by being addicted to coca-cola and other caffeine energy drinks, or by taking in fruit juice instead of fruit - buffered by fiber; this is what causes fatty liver and overload on the pancreas.
Your not alone
That was so much informative! Thanks for sharing your words!
Daniel, and perhaps others. My friend has same issue but won't let me help him. Answer: find a good and intuitive EFT practitioner, discuss what big, ongoing problem you had when young that you COULDN'T "figure out" or control and take the charge out of that. And/or what your need to "chew on" mentally is trying to distract you from FEELING emotionally, and address that old issue. I promise you will feel better. My best to you all. Greg Oldenburg
Excellent video !!❤️ She's adorable and an asset to the people of Canada health.
So I read the comments on here and all the men have not listened to one word she said and instead commented on what she's wearing or her hair color or how attractive they think she is. Lets do a Ted talk on testosterone poisening.
Seriously! Sometimes it is just a few but it's a woman giving a health talk and then I saw all those comments, ridiculous!
Her talk was worthless, men get bored really fast.
you also have a typo.. its 'poisoning'
You’re right, she’s hot! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
No one is addicted to lettuce.
I am so proud of you! Thank you for doing such meaningful work. I think of you often.
Are you her mother Christina
Fascinating. Specially the end. Thank you, gracias ❤
this probably won't be a popular comment, but I really wish we would stop torturing rats and other animals in the name of science. If a creature can feel pain then where is the ethical basis for inflicting pain on them? Before you ask, I'm not a vegetarian and that's probably not consistent but it's just a thought that occurred to me. There's a difference between responsibly and sustainingly eating meat infrequently and maintaining Labs full of animals that are subjected to experiments in the name of science.
& how exactly do you propose to conduct scientific experiments without animal models?
Geoffrey Transom Thank you, well said
Your comment is exactly popular. I too am in agreement. Ted Talk should not allow this behavior for speakers to talk about how they made animals suffer so they can parade themselves as academics.
just rapists
Geoffrey Transom you didn’t answer a question. Who would you like to test on instead? People?
Great, that’s WAY better.
Ffs pets are not people
Thank you so much, for the huge effort you put into that awesome present about our very. frightening lifestyles.
This is a great presentation. I think not controlling for the effect of deprivation and past disordered eating in a missing factor, though.
I know some people are not going to agree with my statement, but I will never understand why we test on animals. If you want to know how something affects a person, then test on that person. And I don't mean ridiculous test, but if you have a disease or disorder then why can't the "scientist", take blood samples, cells samples etc and test on actually people if you want accurate results on how things affect people.
there's a simple explanation -human testing is very expensive -legal stuff aside. people assume there's an unlimited source of funding out there but each of these researchers have to jump through hoops to compete for whats available
I agree
Doesn't matter how many billions it costs the public as long as it is making people rich.
100% agree - I quit smoking 10 years ago, free from alcohol almost 5 years, for the third time. Came to the realization that I'm addicted to sugar, before finding the research on it. The behaviors are the same. However; getting tobacco and alcohol out of my life has been a breeze - compared to sugar. Can milk and Karo baby of the 50s. Sugar is the true gateway drug.
Wow! Am I so, so glad I don't consume ANY SUGAR AT ALL.
Thank you so much for this lesson in addiction.
So anything that causes pleasure can be a addiction. It 's those addictions that are hurting oneself or others that are
Unacceptable. And that is why it is
important to stay away from those who
emmncourage destructive behavior.
Drugs are literally processed plants.. sugar sounds a whole lot like it
No one will believe me on this, but it's absolutely true. I was in one of the fast food restaurants several years ago (think yellow arches), and was reading the contents of one of their little salt packs. Sugar was in there. Yup. Sugar with your salt, sir?
It's funny that the precise commercial CZcams decided to play to me before the video was the Milka Chocolate. 😆
Never heard of addiction to cannabis!
6-100
I have experienced it. It's probably mild compared to opiate addiction but I have to be very careful with cannabis. I can't even say I'll never use it again - I'm always drawn back to it eventually. But I'll never be a daily user like so many people I know. I'm glad it's legal, though, and that the legality of it is spreading - throwing people in jail for that is a terrible thing.
It’s impossible to get "addicted" to Cannabis. Habit forming, maybe - but it’s safer than coffee. I have a great chart.
My boyfriend was addicted. He was all or nothing. He’d hit for a few weeks and then buy a huge bag and smoke it all in a 24 hour period. He’d be super irritable if I tried to take it away. He’d forgo all responsibilities. He’d just sit there eating all the food in the house, leaving the front door open, leaving the oven on, all the lights in the house on…it was rough.
If you can give up smoking, you can stop the sugar thing, it really is easier.
Sugar was introduced to Europe by the Islamic Moors through Spain and Portugal reserved for Kings and Queens it was too expensive for the peasants the Europeans wanted to bypass. The Muslims to get sugar and the rest is history.
Great video
sugar is the new smoking (cool and badass)
I hate animal tests.
Would you prefer them done to people?
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I'm addicted to learning and coding.
Always craving for problems to solve and challenge to complete.
What should I do baby?
Take time with nature. Go to a forest. Swim on lakes. Go to a beach. If you don't have access to those, build a small garden. Grow your own food there. Or you could build a small pond. That should be very rewarding.
I struggled to find the research paper to which she is referring. Her current, published research is concerned with addiction to drugs and the implications on the brain and impulsiveness that is also observed in psychological conditions such as ADHD. I am assuming the paper has yet to be published?
I think it's her dissertation which she has not quite finished...
Check google scholar, several papers are there.
SUGAR in everything we eat, OIL in everything else!
Spinach? Raw beef?
Why are there so less views?
Not YT suppression, take off your little foil hat. It is because this isn’t mindless make-up, fashion, cooking, etc. People (like me) don’t want to give up our sugar until the physical effects force us to and by then damage has been done. Ted talks are also thought of as left leaning, university, elbow patch, liberal talks, and many times they are. I don’t worry or care about number of views, I take what I want or research to be true and leave the rest.
Looks over at empty bag of jellybeans...
shit.
I need more jellybeans.
Everybody is addicted to SWEET TOOTH for uptight
Fearful. Need for SOOTHING NEEDS..
Natural reward over stimulated by artificial food. We can find exactly the same pattern for adult movies too. some really bad industries agroalimantary, pharmaceutic and so one know very well this brain vicious cycle and use them for making money. It's just a shame that this kind of informations and experimentation don't have the necessary amount of avertissement. Most people could overcome their addiction by knowing how it's working inside the brain with the dopamine and delta fosh B.
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Oh my god I ate too much fruit salad today I feel sick but who am I kidding ill probably eating that again tomorrow
1:30 She did the "look to your right, look to your left, x number of you..." routine. What an unoriginal idea. 🙄
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We use a natural way to decrease our sugar cravings. It's organic vegan wholefood capsules, which floods the body with fruits vegetables and berries which intern makes crave healthy food. There are chewable gummies for kids or adults who can't swallow capsules
Why is it that I often see obese people drinking diet or sugar free pop? Are the chemical sweeteners triggers for weight gain even though calorie free and just as addictive?......anyone know?
The real reason is even worse something that you should not know.
yes. speudo sugars trigger a placebo effect.
A lot of times, they drink that because sugar/fats/excessive eating/drinking got them to that point in the first place. Consuming diet items is after the fact
Some diet drinks (most) have caffeine which is very addictive. Also the artificial sweetners spike insulin response and have ingredients that affect the brain (toxins).
As an American in the old South, I'm almost as disturbed by her using the word "pop" as anything else.
looks like she could use some sugar
she is so beautiful
Does anyone else think Amanda Maracle looks like Adele?
Watches after eating Oreos...
When she starts talking about experiments and findings things get a little silly (and cruel).
What she is talking about is an extreme intake of sugar, which she forced on the lab rats to begin with.
Animals are habitual eaters and procreators. If you put too much fish in the fish tank, they eat it. It's not always or immediately about sugar.
The only animals that chill, gold dig and parade their academic credential on stage for money are humans.
Lotta fancy talk for what we already know.
We already know? You got to be kidding me... 60% of Americans is obese. The rest of the world is catching up.
such valuable information but a boring presenter.
if barbara started her addiction as a child, why would anybody guess anything but food? alcohol? tobacco? really?
The ignorance when she said "cannabis and other illicit substances" is off the charts.
Agree
How can you convince me to stop loving sugar when you look so sweet.
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She called soda "pop" I can no longer watch this atrocity
What's so horrible about that? It simply calls to task every sugary drink instead of naming them all.
@@pepper419 It is soda, no further elaboration
You don't have to hide your purse around sugar addicts
why? i dont follow.....
@@dmp1520 she was comparing sugar and crack addicts.
@@ericaprice3987 oh right. Well , thats because sugar addiction has a similar neurochemical response to drug intake. But of course the damage drugs do to a human being is quite different. And you can even share the " drug " and have a nice chat with them 😅
Well the difference is sugar is considered a food, which is readily available and cheaper than drugs. Where I live, low income folks can get $192 a month on food. Free money for those to get junk foods if they want to. If they run out of the food stamps, they can get emergency foods from local non profits which often include canned, boxed goods usually high in sugar/fats too. It's not like that for drugs...
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who the freak is brian, i dont know him and how he responses, hahahahahahaa im funny
Cannabis has not been proven to be addictive.
Neither has opium
@@hemanrocks9249 Not until you're stuck on it.
Have you ever taken it for a month?
Your rats are doing exactly what people are doing every day. It's so sad to see so much sugar in packet food. People just don't see what's under their noses. Sugar in everything they're buying. Tomato sauce is 50% sugar. In fact most sauces are.
she is attractive like the Actress Julianne Moore who is also attractive
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This women is very smart, I can see on her face. Her iq it's over 129, who is this women?
Pacea I Well if you had an IQ over 100 you would see her name in the title bar. If you had an IQ over 110 maybe you would google it.
Types of smart and seems to be...
@@ber9313
Plus he asked 'who is this women?'
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Lolz.
She's a bit long-winded as the title already says it's sugar. Takes 6 minutes to build up a 'story'
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What if my addiction is to red hair?
Dale Moore mine too
then you could watch a video about red hair ?
Then you're just a silly old man.
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Lost interest when you said that you experimented on animals
This unscientific evolution nonsense - provided as explanation for every problem and vice... Is it ever going to stop?
You'd prefer unscientific bible drivel instead?
she is the type of woman you want as a steady girlfriend because she would always have interesting things to say and probably comes from money.
She's not really appropriately dressed, is she?
agreed pants that tight aren't professional
how and appropriately according to who
You're right... white makes me really hungry for sugar
@@betsyb1374 they're not tight, they're just pants lol
@@betsyb1374 indeed 👎
I don't think her jeans could be any form-fitting. The wonders of a spandex blend.
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Thats all you noticed? Your gonads will be your demise.
I frankly cant say enough bad things about her horrid talk.
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