Another Obvious New Study
Overeating is an addiction akin to cocaine and heroin addictions. Scientists say that while this study is on rats and humans may react a little differently, this study tells us that there may be changes in the brain brought on by fatty foods that are likely to cause us to overeat to the point of obesity.
The study took three groups of rats. The first group only ate rat food. The second group was allowed to eat fatty food for one hour per day, and the third group was allowed the junk food for 23 hours per day. They found that the rats in the first two groups ate as expected which was normal, but the last group kept having to eat more and more because they were getting too used to the increased dopamine in the brain which made them feel good. This is how they said that drugs behave in our brains.
So this tells us what? I guess it says that the more you eat the more you want or need to eat of the fatty foods, to be happy? It makes a certain amount of sense however I suspect that there’s a little more to it than that.
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