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Study reveals cheese is as addictive as drugs
Los Angeles Times ^ | October 22, 2015 | Jenn Harris

Posted on 10/25/2015 7:04:30 AM PDT by OldCountryBoy

For years you've been telling your friends, family, co-workers and anyone who will listen that you're addicted to cheese. It's a part of every meal or snack, and you think about it constantly. According to a new study from the University of Michigan, cheese crack is a real thing. And so is your addiction.

The study, published in the U.S. National Library of Medicine, examines why certain foods are more addictive than others. Researchers identified addictive foods from about 500 students who completed the Yale Food Addiction Scale, designed to measure if someone has a food addiction.

Pizza, unsurprisingly, came out on top of the most addictive food list. Besides being a basic food group for kids, college students and adults, there's a scientific reason we all love pizza, and it has to do with the cheese.

The study found certain foods are addictive because of the way they are processed. The more processed and fatty the food, the more it was associated with addictive eating behaviors.

Cheese happens to be especially addictive because of an ingredient called casein, a protein found in all milk products. During digestion, casein releases opiates called casomorphins...

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Food
KEYWORDS: cheese; food; health; research
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To: OldCountryBoy

Wife and I both had two grilled cheese sammiches each for dinner last night. I actually doubled the cheese slices on mine and didn’t tell her (I was cooking.)

Hey, the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem, right?


21 posted on 10/25/2015 7:33:49 AM PDT by moovova
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To: OldCountryBoy

Psst! Please don’t add bits of Swiss cheese to scrambled eggs while cooking. The worst thing you could do is cut a slice of Swiss cheese into little squares and place them on top of the scrambled eggs as it is cooking with your other ingredients such as ham bits, onion, jalapeno, etc.. It melts and forms a highly appealing spongy texture that is also tastewise highly ADDICTIVE. The worse is when you fold your omelette over in half to place that highly ADDICTIVE Swiss cheese in the center.


22 posted on 10/25/2015 7:34:19 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (DUmmie Skinner: Bought & Paid For By Hillary)
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To: OldCountryBoy
13 Macaroni and Cheese Dishes We Love in Chicago | Serious Eats

Quest for the Best Mac & Cheese | Vancouver Foodster

grilled cheese day

23 posted on 10/25/2015 7:34:46 AM PDT by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: ETL

Oh yes! ; )


24 posted on 10/25/2015 7:35:42 AM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: NotQuiteCricket

Just wait until they publish a study that we cheese lovers contribute to global climate change. Methane belching cows destroying the ozone dontchyaknow. Like God made cows with such fart power to destroy the earth..ahahahaa
Pass the cheese and cut it too. Thanks God for the cheese but not for the idiot leftists.


25 posted on 10/25/2015 7:36:23 AM PDT by tflabo (Psalm 1)
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To: OldCountryBoy

26 posted on 10/25/2015 7:37:40 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: OldCountryBoy

I approved this message

-Gov. Scott Walker


27 posted on 10/25/2015 7:38:43 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: ETL; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; PROCON; KC_Lion

28 posted on 10/25/2015 7:41:10 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: RoosterRedux

I agree. I know I have a serious pizza addiction. I love how it looks, smells, tastes, I love the sight of the pizza guy at the door. Though,I do hate the way I crash when the box is empty.


29 posted on 10/25/2015 7:45:00 AM PDT by jonathonandjennifer
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

LoL, I got it.


30 posted on 10/25/2015 7:45:44 AM PDT by LowOiL ("Let us do evil that good may come"? ....condemnation is just - Romans 3:8)
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To: NotQuiteCricket
"Cheese is addictive....and?"

And for heavens sake don't get them started on chocolate.

31 posted on 10/25/2015 7:47:57 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: OldCountryBoy
Ravioli Pictures

Homemade Spinach Manicotti | Skinnytaste

Cheese Stuffed Shells | Sinfully Tempting

Cheese Pizza from Sarpino's Pizza Delivery and Take Out in Vancouver

32 posted on 10/25/2015 7:48:44 AM PDT by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: OldCountryBoy
Study reveals cheese is as addictive as drugs

As a youngster I had "youthful" experimentation with cheese, but I NEVER INHALED!

33 posted on 10/25/2015 7:49:08 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Charter Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and Lifelong Enemy of Hillary Clinton!)
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To: bigbob

If Boinie Sanders starts promising free cheese I just might have to vote for him. Never had communist cheese before but who can complain when its ‘free’.


34 posted on 10/25/2015 7:51:05 AM PDT by tflabo (Psalm 1)
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To: OldCountryBoy

It’s caused by an allergy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvjRsijFejA


35 posted on 10/25/2015 7:51:14 AM PDT by eartrumpet
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To: OldCountryBoy

It is not and I can quit anytime I want to.


36 posted on 10/25/2015 7:53:33 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: OldCountryBoy

TOTAL BS!!! Amazing what a free “grant” can prove these days. “Our scientists say...yes! You can get your mind back by eating a jellyfish.” This kind of crap is right up there with global warming.


37 posted on 10/25/2015 7:58:30 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else)
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To: Pontiac

“If you like your cheese, you can keep your cheese,” said Dr. Robert Stadler of the National Scientific Council.


38 posted on 10/25/2015 7:58:56 AM PDT by The Westerner
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To: Pontiac

yep!


39 posted on 10/25/2015 8:00:24 AM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: OldCountryBoy

Cheese is the gateway food....


40 posted on 10/25/2015 8:01:26 AM PDT by onona (something pithy this way comes)
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