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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday September 25 2018, @01:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-the-sauce dept.

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.


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    by Alfred (4006) on Tuesday September 25 2018, @02:20PM (#739679) Journal
    Yeah, but, Twinkies are gross. Maybe I'm not addicted enough to look past that.
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