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A study conducted by Robert Zatorre and Salimpoor Valorie, researchers from McGill University in Montreal, concluded that the act of listening to music may give pleasure from the rapid release of dopamine. Dopamine is responsible for feelings of pleasure and excitement, and bolster our common activities for survival such as reproduction or feeding. [...]

Sugary food tastes good but ends up bad. Here are a few more bits of information to add to our already definitive knowledge that what’s laden with sugars may be considered junk. Taking in simple sugars such as in a piece of cake ‘causes a huge rush of glucose (what sugar is broken down to) into the blood, and the pancreas releases extra insulin [...]