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New Evidence Says: Yes, Junk Food is 8x More Addictive Than Cocaine

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by The Alternative Daily

Many respected health experts have been saying for years that sugar is pure poison. We here at The Alternative Daily have also reported extensively on the many dangers of the sweet stuff. Now, we have even more – and even more troubling – evidence of sugar’s highly addictive nature.

In a new study recently published in the journal PLOS One, researchers have reported that sugar, specifically the type of processed sugar added to junk foods, is a whopping eight times more addictive than cocaine!

This discovery that an innocuous-looking candy bar could be even more addictive than a street drug with many known risks, including death, should be a huge warning flag for everyone reading to put down the sugary snacks at once.

To summarize, the study authors wrote: “the current study provides preliminary evidence that not all foods are equally implicated in addictive-like eating behavior, and highly processed foods, which may share characteristics with drugs of abuse (e.g. high dose, rapid rate of absorption) appear to be particularly associated with ‘food addiction.’”

For their study, a research team, led by Dr. Nicole Avena of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, recruited 504 participants and analyzed their eating habits. The participants also answered questions to determine their levels of food addiction. These questions included those that asked participants to agree or disagree with certain statements, including “I eat to the point where I feel physically ill.”

When results of the questionnaires were analyzed against the specific foods that the participants ate, the most addictive food uncovered by the study was… pizza. While this may come as a surprise to some, Dr. Avena explains that just the tomato sauce in a slice of processed pizza may contain more sugar than several Oreo cookies!
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Source: http://www.riseearth.com/2015/03/new-evidence-says-yes-junk-food-is-8x.html


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