{"id":2548,"date":"2017-08-18T09:11:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T09:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lowcarbprogram.com\/life\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2017-11-10T13:20:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T13:20:40","slug":"how-sugar-affects-brain-functioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lowcarbprogram.com\/life\/how-sugar-affects-brain-functioning\/","title":{"rendered":"How sugar affects the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you eat a sweet treat, it affects more than just your waistline. Sugar refers to any mono, or disaccharides including glucose, galactose, fructose, sucrose, lactose or maltose. The most common form of sugar is sucrose, otherwise known as white table sugar and is a combination of glucose and fructose.<\/p>\n<p>Although it&#8217;s widely known that sugar can be harmful to the body, its impact on the brain may be even more damaging. According to Neuroscientist Dr Nicole Avena, sugar activates the reward systems, in a similar way to addictive substances like nicotine or alcohol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you eat a sweet treat, it affects more than just your waistline. Sugar refers to any mono, or disaccharides including glucose, galactose, fructose, sucrose, lactose or maltose. The most common form of sugar is sucrose, otherwise known as white table sugar and is a combination of glucose and fructose. Although it&#8217;s widely known that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"class_list":["post-2548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-myth-busting","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":{"post_private":false,"post_video":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lEXBxijQREo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowcarbprogram.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowcarbprogram.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowcarbprogram.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowcarbprogram.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowcarbprogram.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowcarbprogram.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3790,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowcarbprogram.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions\/3790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowcarbprogram.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowcarbprogram.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowcarbprogram.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}