I am a total fan of John Oliver's new tv show Last Week Tonight and this week he humorously shamed American's addiction to sugar. Perfect timing right before Halloween! If you haven't seen it you have to watch it. BGR.com has the clip. It begins by mentioning Ph.D. Neuroscientist Eric Stice who works at the Oregon Research Institute. He studies the way sugar effects the human brain and says it effects it in the same way as cocaine putting the saying "sugar high" and "sugar crash" into a totally literal perspective. This brings John Oliver to the discussion how U.S. food manufacturers put sugar in everything, literally EVERYTHING. It's no wonder why Americans have a food addiction problem and why most healthy Americans would rather be living in a different country.
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