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Mounting evidence is suggesting that fatty and processed foods are not just bad for our waistlines, but actually affect our brains in similar ways to drugs like cocaine and nicotine. According to a recent article, just in the past year alone, twenty eight scientific studies have been published about how food can be addictive. While […]

Yesterday ScienceDaily published an article about a study finding that people with addictive-like eating behavior have greater neural activity in certain regions of the brain, similar to substance dependence. The report will appear in the August issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. It has been proposed that addictive processes may be at work in the […]