use a ’slowhand’…
when reaching for something good to eat but bad for you. when eric clapton sang about cocaine he said she don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie….but he might as well have been singing about cupcakes and french fries.
don’t say we’ve never reported on news you can use. next time you’re at the market, consider this: scientists have confirmed that um, fatty foods are addictive. a study of rats showed that just like cocaine and heroine, the reapeated consumption of high fat, high calorie foods can lead to addictive behavior–it overloads the pleasure zones of the brain and just like drugs, people who eat these types of foods need more and more of it to get ‘high.’
the researchers say that we have even come to make our food drug-like–just like people learned to make the coca leave into cocaine, we’ve created similar food-drugs like high fructose corn syrup–we “eat unconsciously and unnecessarily…[and]…eat like a drug abuser [uses drugs].” the researchers were quick to caution that just because a rat got fat on junk food doesn’t mean human behavior is exactly the same but that it gives a clue as to how humans will respond. but i think they added the cancer warning to saccharin after a rat test, something tells me we should take heed.
photo courtesy of stoned59
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