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 Thexalon on Tuesday September 25 2018, @02:23PM (1 child)
It's a shame that the film They Live [imdb.com] is mostly remembered for the "... and I'm all out of bubblegum" line.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday September 25 2018, @04:00PM
Yes, it's a misunderstood classic. The filmmakers were onto something profound 30 years ahead of the curve, and embedded it in a story about aliens controlling humanity through subliminal messages. They hid it in plain sight, so to speak.
A couple decades later another misunderstood classic followed up. "Fight Club" was not about fighting, it was a prescription for action.
"Brazil," too, belongs in the same pantheon.
Washington DC delenda est.