Junk food can hijack brain like drugs do, experts say

 

'A growing body of medical research at leading universities and government laboratories suggests that processed foods and sugary drinks aren't simply unhealthy. They can hijack the brain in ways that resemble addictions to cocaine, nicotine and other drugs.

"The data is so overwhelming the field has to accept it," said Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. "We are finding tremendous overlap between drugs in the brain and food in the brain." '

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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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