NICOTINE RELEASES SUGAR
STUDY MADD AT YAUU NKW IIAVKN, Conn.. I'd.. 19. A discovery Unit people like to smoke mainly because nicotine releases sugar in their blood is published from the Vale Laboratory of applied Physiology. The nicotine gives a little kick to the adrenals, the. glands which supply energy. They in turn open the body faucets which release, a little stored-up sugar, the body's normal muscle fuel. The body proceeds forthwith to enjoy this sugar under various sensations. The studies were made upon cigarette smoke by Mrs. Howard W. Haggard and Leon .A. Greenberg. The details are published in Science, the official journal for American scientific announce ments. "Smoking, we find, produces a definite, although temporary increase in the concentration of blood sugar, and a corresponding Increase in the rate of sugar combustion in the body. Those effects certainly are due to the nicotine of the tobacco and they arise from the action of this alkaloid on the adrenals. “There can be little doubt that this is the source of at least a considerable part of the gratification from smoking.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18366, 7 April 1934, Page 7
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181NICOTINE RELEASES SUGAR Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18366, 7 April 1934, Page 7
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