The Truth About Food Addiction
- 5 years ago
The Truth About Food Addiction.
Why is it so hard to put
down that bag of chips
or have just one piece
of chocolate?.
Some research is beginning
to suggest that food may be
just as addictive as drugs,
if not more.
A Connecticut College study found that
Oreos lit up the pleasure center of rats’
brains more powerfully than cocaine.
These findings suggest that high fat/high sugar foods and drugs of abuse trigger brain addictive processes to the same degree. , Neuroscientist Joseph Schroeder,
via Connecticut College study.
A study published in ‘Frontiers in Psychology’ found
that 29 percent of obese or overweight subjects identified
with the definition of addiction in relation to food.
Food addiction is often
dismissed due to food’s
normalized role in everyday
life and its lack of immediate risk.
In all my years as a physician, I have never ever met a person who chose to be an addict, nor have I ever met someone who chose to be obese. So, imagine what it must be like to be unable to stop doing something when you want to, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse Nora Volkow, via 'TedMed Talk'
Why is it so hard to put
down that bag of chips
or have just one piece
of chocolate?.
Some research is beginning
to suggest that food may be
just as addictive as drugs,
if not more.
A Connecticut College study found that
Oreos lit up the pleasure center of rats’
brains more powerfully than cocaine.
These findings suggest that high fat/high sugar foods and drugs of abuse trigger brain addictive processes to the same degree. , Neuroscientist Joseph Schroeder,
via Connecticut College study.
A study published in ‘Frontiers in Psychology’ found
that 29 percent of obese or overweight subjects identified
with the definition of addiction in relation to food.
Food addiction is often
dismissed due to food’s
normalized role in everyday
life and its lack of immediate risk.
In all my years as a physician, I have never ever met a person who chose to be an addict, nor have I ever met someone who chose to be obese. So, imagine what it must be like to be unable to stop doing something when you want to, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse Nora Volkow, via 'TedMed Talk'