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Study: Foods like ice cream, chips and candy are just as addictive as cigarettes or heroin (www.usatoday.com)

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[Your] favorite guilty pleasure snack may be just as addictive as cigarettes or heroin, a new study reveals.

An analysis of 281 studies in 36 countries, published in the British Medical Journal this month, found that your inability to put down the ice cream, chips and candy may have less to do with your self-control and more to do with the addictive quality of ultra-processed foods or UPFs.

“The combination of refined carbohydrates and fats often found in UPFs seems to have a supra-additive effect on brain reward systems, above either macronutrient alone, which may increase the addictive potential of these foods,” the study said.

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[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

The combination of refined carbohydrates and fats often found in UPFs seems to have a supra-additive effect on brain reward systems

Right, it couldn't possibly have anything to do with how poor, stressed, anxious, depressed, and otherwise in desperate need of dopamine, people are in this dystopia we're living in.. I bet they didn't even factor those things in, they never do. Because they're not looking to help people, they're looking for not only ways to shift responsibility from those who create those conditions, and the cheap and easy "fixes" for them that we're all suddenly now "addicted" to, to individuals, but also to sell us "solutions" in the form of pharmaceuticals, diets, "organic" foods, "superfoods" and whatever other snake oil they can get us to buy in to.

This is just more capitalism trying to distract us from (and sell us "solutions" to) capitalism, it's what it does, don't buy in to it, stay focused on the core of the issue, not its symptoms.