{"id":1428,"date":"2008-12-14T04:48:58","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T04:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:42:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:42:46","slug":"sugar-can-be-addictive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1428","title":{"rendered":"Sugar Can Be Addictive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Princeton University scientist just demonstrated that sugar can be an addictive substance, wielding its power over the brains of lab animals in a manner similar to many drugs of abuse. Rats were denied sugar for a prolonged period after learning to binge worked harder to get it when it was reintroduced to them. They consumed more sugar than they ever had before, suggesting craving and relapse behavior. Their motivation for sugar had grown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2008\/12\/081210090819.htm\" target=_blank>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Princeton University scientist just demonstrated that sugar can be an addictive substance, wielding its power over the brains of lab animals in a manner similar to many drugs of abuse. Rats were denied sugar for a prolonged period after learning to binge worked harder to get it when it was reintroduced to them. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4952,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions\/4952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}