Is salt addictive? Is that why every food that is not natural is loaded with it?
A team of Duke University Medical Center and Australian scientists has found that addictive drugs may have hijacked the same nerve cells and connections in the brain that serve a powerful, ancient...
View ArticleFood can be as addictive as drugs
SARASOTA, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Food Addiction Institute congratulates Bloomberg News for its article yesterday discussing the scientific evidence that fatty foods can be as addictive as cocaine...
View ArticleSmoking trumps food, shelter, healthcare for those who are addicted
NASHVILLE, Tenn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Despite the fact that Americans’ access to basic necessities, such as food, medicine, shelter, and healthcare has reached a four-year low of 81.2 percent this October,...
View ArticleThe Hunger Fix: The Three-Stage Detox and Recovery Plan for Overeating and...
Food addiction is real. Our body’s built-in reward system, driven by the chemical dopamine, tells us to do things that give us pleasure: Creative energy, falling in love, entrepreneurship—even the...
View ArticleHow Kraft, Coca-Cola, Kellogg, and Nestle use salt, sugar, and fat to addict us
From a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. Michael...
View ArticleIs food addictive?
A Biological Psychiatry special issue tackles the debate Biological Psychiatry is proud to announce this week’s publication of a special issue focusing on the question of food as an addiction....
View ArticleMaternal diet sets up junk food addiction in babies
Research from the University of Adelaide suggests that mothers who eat junk food while pregnant have already programmed their babies to be addicted to a high fat, high sugar diet by the time they are...
View ArticleChildhood abuse linked with food addiction in adult women
Women who experienced severe physical or sexual abuse during childhood are much more likely to have a food addiction as adults than women who did not experience such abuse, according to a new study...
View ArticleFood addiction, drug addiction may share same brain mechanism
Consuming highly processed carbohydrates can cause excess hunger and stimulate brain regions involved in reward and cravings, according to a Boston Children’s Hospital research team led by David...
View ArticleOreos may be as addictive as cocaine: new study
Newswise — NEW LONDON, Conn. — Connecticut College students and a professor of neuroscience have found “America’s favorite cookie” is just as addictive as cocaine – at least for lab rats. And just...
View ArticleWe are all addicts: Drugs, alcohol, food rely on same brain pathways
Innov Clin Neurosci. 2013 Sep;10(9-10):30-35. Obesity and Substance Misuse: Is There a Relationship? Sansone RA, Sansone LA. Source: R. Sansone is a professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and...
View ArticleImpulsive personality linked to food addiction
Athens, Ga. – The same kinds of impulsive behavior that lead some people to abuse alcohol and other drugs may also be an important contributor to an unhealthy relationship with food, according to new...
View ArticleImpulsivity is risk factor for food addiction
(Boston) – Have you ever said to yourself that you would only have a handful of potato chips from the bag then, minutes later, realized you ate the whole thing? A recent study shows that this type of...
View ArticleFood addiction may be a real condition
Women with weight problems were more impulsive than average in a food-related psychology test, a new research paper has shown. This suggested that they are more instinctively stimulated by images of...
View ArticlePTSD symptoms associated with increased food addiction
Bottom Line: Symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were associated with increased food addiction, especially when individuals had more symptoms or the symptoms occurred earlier in life....
View ArticleCompulsive overeating and sugar addiction controlled by one brain circuit,...
Compulsive overeating and sugar addiction are major threats to human health, but potential treatments face the risk of impairing normal feeding behaviors that are crucial for survival. A study...
View ArticleSugar withdrawal does this to your brain
Jordan Gaines Lewis, Neuroscience Doctoral Candidate at Penn State College of Medicine for The Conversation — Anyone who knows me also knows that I have a huge sweet tooth. I always have. My friend...
View ArticleBeliefs affect brain in the same way that drugs do
Two identical cigarettes led to a discovery by scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute. Study participants inhaled nicotine, yet they showed significantly different brain activity....
View ArticleWhy Addiction Is Not a Disease
Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the “disease model” of addiction is wrong and illuminates the path to...
View ArticleFood addiction, like drugs or alcohol, may be a thing
An international group of researchers have found that food craving activates different brain networks between obese and normal weight patients. This indicates that the tendency to want food may be...
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