This is What Sugar Does to Your Mental Health

From anxiety to depression — why you should hold that cake.

Sugar makes you fat, which is bad enough. But can it really make you depressed? Clinically depressed, even? The evidence is compelling, and it’s a journey that starts with a mild blood sugar imbalance and can end with serious mental illness.

Each step of that journey is fuelled by sugar, or more specifically, glucose.

How it begins: blood sugar imbalance

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