Keeping it Together: The perils of a 'sugar high' this holiday season

Happy holidays from Paste BN's wellness team. I'm David Oliver, one of our reporters. My colleague Katie Camero recently wrote about how the holiday season can feel like "a hall pass for guilt-free sugar splurges."

She went on: "Although you might feel an initial burst of energy, consuming too many sweet foods and drinks too quickly this Christmas or New Year will inevitably make you feel icky — an unfortunate reality that some experts call the 'sugar hangover.' 

"'You can’t have the high without the crash,' said Melanie Murphy Richter, a registered dietician nutritionist in Los Angeles, California, who said this sugary hangover can 'feel just as bad or even worse' than the real one.

But you can still have your cake and eat it too (literally), experts say. Here’s what the science says about sweets binges and how you can still enjoy yummy foods without feeling terrible this holiday season."

Check out the rest of this story here, and peruse our other stories from the past week below. Have a gentle holiday season, all.