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 Phoenix666 on Tuesday September 25 2018, @04:07PM (9 children)
Hold on, now. Are we talking about Chicago-style, or New York-style? The former could be called a pie. The latter is a canape with an outsized ego. Both of them fall short, though, because they inevitably lack the poorly understood, but divine, ingredient of anchovies; it's funny, because it is the thing that gives caesar salad its irresistible savory quality yet millions, misled by Hollywood, think it's something to be avoided.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday September 25 2018, @11:35PM (3 children)
Yes! Anchovies! To be precise, anchovies and pineapple. Delicious!
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday September 26 2018, @01:51AM (1 child)
OMG someone else than me likes this! I got soooo many weird looks asking for that...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Wednesday September 26 2018, @02:24AM
I knew you were my kind of girl! And my mother never warned me!
Well, actually, maybe anchovies and pineapple is a feminine-origin thing -- I learned it from my wife, who is also my kind of girl.
-- hendrik
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday September 26 2018, @01:50PM
That combination never occurred to me, but will try it now.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Wednesday September 26 2018, @02:40AM (4 children)
Is it made with pastry? No. Then it's not a pie.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday September 26 2018, @12:53PM
PSA: Cow pies, also not pies.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday September 26 2018, @01:34PM (2 children)
What? Shepherd's pie has been called "pie" since forever and a day, and there is no pastry in it.
Even by your definition, a pizza could be called a pie because it does have a crust. Is it the exact same crust you would use in an apple pie? No. Then again, recipes for crust vary. A Chicago-style pizza fits "pie" even better than New York-style because it has a crust above and below the filling.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Wednesday September 26 2018, @03:20PM (1 child)
Touché.
No because bread is not pastry.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday September 26 2018, @07:03PM
We're beating this to death, but pizza crust is not bread, as much as bobboli would like everybody to think it is.
Washington DC delenda est.