Why does sugar make us happy?

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Unlike any other food, comfort foods make us happy. Chocolate, cakes and snickers bars. But why is that a thing and why isnt there the same phenomenon with things like sour foods?

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Sugar is a source of energy. Our brain developed in a time when starving was much more likely than getting too fat or dying of diabetes.

So our brain rewards us for doing the thing that helps us survive.

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