{"id":750,"date":"2008-12-11T10:02:22","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T18:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=750"},"modified":"2008-12-11T10:04:06","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T18:04:06","slug":"the-tasty-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-tasty-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"The tasty drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2008\/12\/081210090819.htm\">Sugar Can Be Addictive: Animal Studies Show Sugar Dependence<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Princeton University scientist will present new evidence today demonstrating 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<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some of you might be wondering, &#8220;they had to do a study on that?&#8221; Just another reminder that something &#8220;cultural&#8221; such as cuisine is strongly constrained &amp; shaped by biological parameters. \u00a0Not only that, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diabetes_mellitus_type_2\">consequence<\/a>s of said addiction differ due to human genetic variation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sugar Can Be Addictive: Animal Studies Show Sugar Dependence: A Princeton University scientist will present new evidence today demonstrating that sugar can be an addictive substance, wielding its power over the brains of lab animals in a manner similar to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-tasty-drug\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9,21],"tags":[84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}