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Quitting junk food produces similar withdrawal-type symptoms as drug addiction:
If you plan to try and quit junk food, expect to suffer similar withdrawal-type symptoms—at least during the initial week—like addicts experience when they attempt to quit using drugs.
A new study by University of Michigan is believed to be the first of its kind to evaluate withdrawal symptoms people incur when they stop devouring highly processed foods, such as pastries, French fries and pizza.
Previous studies have focused on sugar withdrawal among animals and the literature regarding humans offered only anecdotal evidence, said Erica Schulte, the study's lead author and U-M psychology doctoral candidate.
What all researchers can agree upon is that the addictive qualities of tobacco, drugs or alcohol affect the brain similarly and cutting back can lead to negative side effects that can make it difficult to reduce intake. Anxiety, headaches, irritability and depression are some of those outcomes.
Understanding whether withdrawal may also occur with highly processed foods was an essential next step in evaluating whether these foods might be capable of triggering similar addictive processes.
Abstract: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666318306196 (DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2018.09.013
Pizza is not junk food! It's also not a pie.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday September 25 2018, @01:15PM (4 children)
Nevertheless, I can't wait for the ban on Maccas in public places the way they treat smokers.
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 25 2018, @05:48PM (3 children)
Does that mean fat shaming is now encouraged like fake-coughing and glaring every time you walk within a hundred yards of a smoker?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday September 25 2018, @10:12PM
Now? No... Not yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 26 2018, @11:19AM (1 child)
It's not fake coughing for me, asshole. Urge to keep the shit that killed my mother out of my lungs is quite real.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday September 26 2018, @12:44PM
You couldn't be adversely affected by cigarette smoking outdoors if you spent a hundred years walking close enough to touch every smoker you saw as you passed. You're just an asshole.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.