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Socker triggar våra belöningssystem. Sött frisätter opiater som sätter fart på sötsuget - insulin kan dämpa det

Sugar triggers our reward-system. Sweets release opiates which stimulates the appetite for sucrose--insulin can depress it

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Summary, in English

The consumption of sweet food has increased in Sweden, as in other Western countries. The type of food item has changed. The sweet is dominated by soft drinks. Appetite regulation for sucrose has been described in experimental animal models. It has been found that opioids stimulate appetite for sucrose. At the same time sucrose releases endogenous opioids so that a triggering of sucrose consumption occurs. Insulin has been shown to decrease sucrose intake by blocking the opioid response. Sucrose addiction has been described in rat model. With a concentrated sucrose solution to drink an opioid dependence developed with 1) increased consumption of sucrose 2) abstinence symptoms with no sucrose and 3) anxiety with an opiate blocker. Sucrose addiction in man has not been described in the scientific literature. There is an increased liking of sweets with alcoholic persons, which may be significant to support a strongly rewarding effect of sucrose, also in man. We should limit the access to sweet foods, in particular the sweet drinks. Insulin and insulin sensitivity may be an important factor to restrict the intake of sweet food.

Publishing year

2005

Language

Swedish

Pages

1620-1927

Publication/Series

Läkartidningen

Volume

102

Issue

21

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Swedish Medical Association

Topic

  • Nutrition and Dietetics

Keywords

  • Insulin: administration & dosage
  • Insulin: physiology
  • Humans
  • Opioid: drug effects
  • Receptors
  • Opioid: physiology
  • Reward
  • Risk Factors
  • Substance Withdrawal Syndrome: psychology
  • Taste: drug effects
  • Taste: physiology
  • Animals
  • Appetite: drug effects
  • Appetite: physiology
  • Beverages: adverse effects
  • English Abstract
  • Food Habits
  • Dietary Sucrose: adverse effects
  • Dietary Sucrose: administration & dosage
  • Brain Mapping
  • Candy: adverse effects
  • Opioid Peptides: administration & dosage
  • Opioid Peptides: secretion
  • Rats

Status

Published

Research group

  • Appetite Regulation

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0023-7205