Laboratory rats given a high-sugar diet and then withdrawn from sugar
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"Laboratory rats given a high-sugar diet and then withdrawn from sugar experience changes in both behavior and brain chemistry similar to those seen during withdrawal from morphine or nicotine."
Source: Brownell, Kelly D. and Horgen, Katherine Battle, Food Fight, 34.