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Feel Addicted to Sweets & Other Foods? Junk Food Addiction May be Real by Connie Bennett Healthy Living Professional

Posted Sun 28 Mar 2010 12:00am Do you feel completely out of control when it comes to eating candies, cookies and fast food? More to the point, do you feel downright addicted? New research reveals that your affinity -- or addiction -- may be real, according to new research. "Researchers ... say it's possible that a diet heavy in highly rewarding foods Read on »

Junk Food As Addicting As Heroin?! by Melissa H. Patient Expert

Posted Sun 29 Nov 2009 10:01pm holidays where sweets and treats are abundant, I thought it’d be an appropriate and timely piece. Per FitSugar, “A new study says that eating junk food can fuel an addiction..., and have always been of the mind that there is truth to junk food being “addicting.” Though I don’t chew and spit anymore (not since March!!) I admit I still find it hard to stop Read on »

Junk food as addictive as drugs, says new neurological study by Sally Kneidel Patient Expert

Posted Tue 24 Nov 2009 12:00am out about the addictive nature of junk food. Neuroscientists Paul Kenny and Paul Johnson from Scripps Research Institute reported last month that rats fed a steady diet of high-fat junk food develop addictive behavior similar to heroin addiction! The rats in the study were divided into two groups. One group was fed a healthy diet of high Read on »

Researchers Find Junk Food Is Addictive by Linda Posted Sun 28 Mar 2010 12:00am A new study is showing that junk food is addictive. A study tested the theory on two groups of rates: one had a balanced diet and the other all junk food. When researchers gave the rats unlimited access to foods like bacon, pound cake, candy bars and other junk food, the rats quickly gained weight. As they gained, the eating became Read on »

No kidding...junk food is as addictive as cocaine or nicotine new study finds by Roman M. Patient Expert

Posted Wed 31 Mar 2010 7:00am on high-calorie foods may be as addictive as cocaine or nicotine, and could cause compulsive eating and obesity, according to recent Reuters story. "Obesity may be a form... of The Scripps Research Institute in Florida said. The new study found that rats became addicted to high calorie foods or at least had a similar addiction-like responses Read on »

New study demonstrates junk food as addictive as smoking and heroin by Dhrumil Purohit Patient Expert

Posted Mon 29 Mar 2010 10:02pm A new study by the Scripps Research Institute in Florida has found that laboratory rats became addicted to junk food much in the same way that people become..., which took nearly three years to complete, confirmed the "addictive" properties of junk food." "He added: "It presents the most thorough and compelling evidence that drug Read on »

JUNK FOOD ADDICTION - IS THERE SUCH A THING? by Nick B. Patient Expert

Posted Wed 07 Apr 2010 8:10am A research study in Florida found that rats that were fed junk food developed compulsive eating habits. Does this have implications for humans? An interesting research..., & chocolate was fed to one group. Another had access to the same diet, but only for an hour each day. The third group had no access to the junk food diet. The rats in the first group Read on »

Full of Junk Food- I Deny Addiction to Foods that ARE CRAP! by A. Brewster S. Patient Expert

Posted Sun 16 Aug 2009 10:24pm to just try to get past it. A recent article I read at Spark People said that junk food is 1/4 of every American diet. That is really scary- and also very explanatory, don't...I have a spent a lifetime eating crappy food. I also had a great mother who was an excellent cook, but as was the habit of our times, cooked a lot of fried. So, I grew up Read on »

Researchers show junk food is “as addictive as drugs” by Karen Patient Expert

Posted Tue 10 Nov 2009 12:00am November 6, 2009 - Source: Natural Products Online New research by US scientists will strengthen evidence that junk food is addictive... will show just how dangerous the junk food addiction can be. The soon to be published study by Paul Kenny and his team at Florida’s Scripps Research Institute found that a diet Read on »

Junk food 'as addictive as ... by John R. Posted Mon 29 Mar 2010 3:23am Junk food 'as addictive as heroin and smoking' It would be much simpler but much less dramatic to say that opiates and nicotine stimulate the same pleasure centres... arrogance, not science Bingeing on junk food is as addictive as smoking or taking drugs and could cause compulsive eating and obesity, a study has found. American researchers found Read on »