Food Addiction – PART 2
Is Food Addiction real? Here are some of the scientific findings confirming that food can, indeed, be addictive: Sugar stimulates the brain’s reward centers through the neurotransmitter dopamine exactly like other addictive drugs. Brain imagining (PET scans) shows that high-sugar and high-fat foods work just like heroin, opium, or morphine in the brain. Brain imaging […]
Food Addiction – PART 1
There are diagnostic criteria for substance dependence or addiction. Let’s examine the research and the similarities between high-sugar, energy-dense, fatty and salty processed junk food and cocaine, heroin, and nicotine. We’ll start by reviewing the diagnostic criteria for substance dependence or addiction found in the bible of psychiatric diagnosis—the DSM-IV and look at how that […]