Junk Food Turns Rats into Food Junkies

New study affirms and expands on the alarming results of 2009 rodent study, and support a former FDA commissioner’s claim that junk food is literally addictive.

by Craig Weatherby





'Last year, former FDA commissioner David Kessler, M.D., published a book titled The End of Overeating, in which he proposed that junk foods create addiction-like cravings for more junk food.

He pointed to growing evidence that junky foods – foods high in fat, salt and sugar but low in fiber and nutrients – alter the brain's chemistry in ways that compel people to overeat.

As he told The Washington Post, “Much of the scientific research around overeating has been physiology … what's going on in our body. The real question is what's going on in our brain.”'

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