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Re:What happens to your brain when you stop eating sugar by jeremysmyth on Monday March 09, 2015 @10:55AM (#9171230)
On what basis? Alcohol withdrawal is pretty bad (life threatening).

Try this for starters: https://www.google.com/search?q=substance+withdrawal+compari...

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Re:What happens to your brain when you stop eating sugar by oe on Monday March 09, 2015 @12:01PM (#9171663)
Mostly personal experience :) I have stopped drinking alcohol for a year, coffee a couple times for few weeks at a time, and sugar for couple days at most. Never tried smoking though.

IMO drinking both coffee and alcohol casually leads more easily to a coffee addiction, but without you noticing.

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Re:What happens to your brain when you stop eating sugar by liveoneggs on Monday March 09, 2015 @11:07AM (#9171289)
there's a long road between "giving up drinking" and lethal DT's.
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