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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 insanumingenium on Tuesday September 25 2018, @07:21PM
Not sure what this has to do with anything, but I thought it would be amusing to work out.
according to wikipedia
sucrose is c12h22o11 and has a density of 1.587g/cm3 so 1587g/l
No, I am not going to figure out packing efficiency, assume we are burning a solid 1l crystal if that makes you feel better.
Please go ahead and check my math, yes I rounded atomic weights to even values. I am obviously ssuming all my spherical cows all have the same isotopes throughout.
1 c12h22o11 + 12 o2 --> 12 co2 + 11 h2o
c12h22o11 = 342g/mol * 1mol = 342g
o2 = 32g/mol * 12mol = 384g
so total conversion would involve (342g+184g)/342g*1587g ~3368.89g of sugar and oxygen gas
co2 = 44g/mol * 12mol = 528g
h2o = 18g/mol * 11mol = 198g
from which 198g/(528g+198g) * 3368.89g = ~918.79g of water would result, and we are going to keep on the round train and say that is 919ml of water.