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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2018, @02:29PM (12 children)
You know what I want modern food science to come up with? A zero calorie gummy bear. My roommate and I would buy stock in whoever markets that, and we would gladly accept payment of the dividends in the form of gummies.
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 25 2018, @03:33PM (11 children)
Ehhh...Haribo makes a sugar-free one, but if they're anything like the hype, I'd stay far, farrrr away from them.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday September 25 2018, @04:13PM (10 children)
There's money to be made producing simulacra that substitute stevia.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 25 2018, @05:07PM (9 children)
Oooh, stevia! I keep some of the liquid extract at home at all times and use it lots. That should be a lot healthier and less likely to give you the napalm shits than artificial sweeteners.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday September 25 2018, @06:00PM (8 children)
I've made chocolate bars with it and unsweetened cocoa powder. Cocoa butter is full of the medium chain triglycerides that the ketogenic diet recommends, so that's an easy ingredient. Chia seeds and roasted almond slivers add crunch. All in all it turns out pretty well.
Healthy savory snacks are possible also. If you've ever bought the Red Mill nutritional yeast, there's a recipe for nooch crackers on the back that call for the yeast and flax meal. They are addictive. I have to make them in double- and triple batches because nobody can stop eating them.
There are excellent healthy restaurants out there that should open franchises all over, because they're that good. Laughing Planet [laughingplanet.com] in Portland, OR, is one, and Flexit Cafe [flexitcafe.com] in Ellsworth, Maine, is another.
So it's possible to eat delicious food that's healthy (and often good for the planet also), but unfortunately at this point it's still pretty DIY. It's tough to manage that without planning.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday September 26 2018, @01:35AM (7 children)
Those sound good. I've been unfairly biased against nooch since my ex swore by the stuff and hurr hurr guilt by association, but a keto-friendly cracker sounds amazing. Ditto the chocolate bars. And I'm all about DIY; I made a desk and a bedframe this past month, after a friend who'd already done it encouraged me.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday September 26 2018, @01:47AM (6 children)
Sorry, but a ketogenic chocolate "treat" sounds really hard to like - bitter and oily? Maybe the cocoa & lipid energy rush afterwards could teach you to like it. Of course, I'm so carb-addicted that I find it difficult to stop sucking down a glass of fruit juice after I start drinking it when my blood sugar is below baseline.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday September 26 2018, @12:50PM (2 children)
I've got nothing against eating keto diet meals as long as we keep some handy carbs around for me as well. The Roomie has been on it for six months or so now and mostly it means I get to eat a lot more two inch thick ribeyes and one pound cheeseburgers. Mind you, it also means I get to make biscuits and gravy and eat them in front of him; dinner and a show.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday September 26 2018, @01:47PM (1 child)
You can still eat biscuits and gravy on a keto diet. Mix some flax meal, an egg, a little bit of baking soda and salt in a coffee mug and nuke it for a minute and you have a biscuit. Not quite the same texture as a regular biscuit, sure, but that's just an excuse to add more gravy.
Keto is a great excuse to snack on beef jerky and sausage and eat bigger steaks. After a while rice, bread, pasta, and all the usual carb foods feel like a silly waste of time, pointless filler that could be replaced with more steak, or more salmon, or more lobster...you get the idea.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday September 26 2018, @02:05PM
Heretic! How dare you adulterate the sanctity of biscuits with your farcical recipe?! I declare a fatwa upon you and your descendants for twelve generations!
Seriously though, if you grew up loving the hell out of biscuits and gravy, you're not going to find a keto-friendly alternative acceptable for either the biscuits or the gravy. Proper gravy is made out of bacon grease, flour, milk, and spices. Both the flour and the quantity of milk make it about as keto-unfriendly as genuine biscuits.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday September 26 2018, @01:42PM (2 children)
The part of the chocolate bar that isn't keto friendly is the sugar. Substitute stevia and you're set.
It is difficult to get off carbs, though, because it is as addictive as the TFA says. The upside is that once you're off them, you feel much calmer. You never get hangry, because your body picks up right away and burns fat when need to. You might find that you save a lot of money at the grocery store, too, because there are almost no processed foods that are carb-free.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday September 26 2018, @04:08PM
The very mention of the word stevia makes me retch. I've had some pretty bad reactions to aspartame in the past and while I haven't made myself deathly ill with stevia, it seems to affect me in similar ways - I just avoid.
We save money at the grocery store by not buying products with gluten in them, then spend a fair bit (though not all) of that saved by buying a few GF alternatives like bread and pizza. Same principle - 90%+ of the processed foods are not GF, and so many GF products are disgusting to the point that you just don't even want them (and a few are quite good...)
My most recent "food processing" observation is corn. Somehow, our local TJ's can sell organically grown, in the husk ears of corn for $0.29 per ear, but if that same corn gets half-shelled and wrapped in a cellophane 4 pack (more corn than we typically want, BTW), it then costs $0.87 per ear. God help you when it gets "puffed" and sprinkled with salty oil (aka cheese) and costs upwards of $3/lb, though TJ's does have nice cheap bulk tortilla chips @ 2lbs for $3.50.
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday September 27 2018, @12:02AM
Well, I'm not going to go keto (most likely) but I already do 16/8 IF and just picked up some MCT oil and some grass-fed butter. Going to see how substituting breakfast with a biiiiiig cup of bulletproof coffee (or maybe tea) works out for a while. Only going to use 1T of each, but put it into 32oz of fluid, because I don't really like creamy textures much.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...