XL Country 100.7 KXLB Radio » addictive http://xlcountry.com Sat, 25 May 2013 03:04:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Fatty and Sugary Foods May Be as Addictive as Cocaine and Cigarettes http://xlcountry.com/fatty-foods-addictive-cocaine-cigarettes/ http://xlcountry.com/fatty-foods-addictive-cocaine-cigarettes/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:32:44 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://tsminteractive.com/?p=58365 There is a growing body of evidence suggesting fatty and sugary foods rewire the brain in the same way drugs like cocaine and nicotine do, leading to addiction.

In recent studies, lab animals who have been fed a diet of sugary and fatty snacks show the classic signs of addiction, and brain scans of obese humans show the same disturbances in their reward circuits as the brains that are found in drug addicts.

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