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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: Pontiac
Hypothetical construct with no basis in reality. They are free to twist it to fit any absurdity they dream up.
61 posted on 10/25/2015 12:44:00 PM PDT by oldsicilian
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To: tflabo
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..

Shhhh! Most liberals probably have no idea where cheese comes from.

They probably think it's from a factory somewhere, having nothing to do with cows.

62 posted on 10/25/2015 1:11:17 PM PDT by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Maytag

Cheese????


63 posted on 10/25/2015 1:35:35 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac

Legendary!

http://www.maytagdairyfarms.com/aspx/welcome.aspx


64 posted on 10/25/2015 1:42:41 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: JoeProBono

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un6u6y3EuR0


65 posted on 10/25/2015 2:00:59 PM PDT by nomad
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66 posted on 10/25/2015 2:17:37 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: JoeProBono

That`s a funny looney-toon skit.


67 posted on 10/25/2015 2:27:51 PM PDT by nomad
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To: Pontiac

Maytag is a blue cheese produced on the Maytag Dairy Farms outside of Newton, Iowa, the former home of the Maytag Corporation. It is made from homogenized cow’s milk instead of the traditional sheep’s milk.


68 posted on 10/26/2015 9:14:47 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
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69 posted on 10/26/2015 9:17:11 AM PDT by dfwgator
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