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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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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday September 26 2018, @01:47AM (6 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday September 26 2018, @01:47AM (#739995)

    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)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday September 26 2018, @12:50PM (#740133) Homepage Journal

    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.

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    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday September 26 2018, @01:47PM (1 child)

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday September 26 2018, @01:47PM (#740166) Journal

      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.

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      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday September 26 2018, @02:05PM

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday September 26 2018, @02:05PM (#740184) Homepage Journal

        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.

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday September 26 2018, @01:42PM (2 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday September 26 2018, @01:42PM (#740162) Journal

    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.

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    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday September 26 2018, @04:08PM

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday September 26 2018, @04:08PM (#740277)

      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

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday September 27 2018, @12:02AM (#740541) Journal

      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.

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