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: 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.