Cheese 'Can Be Addictive As Morphine'

Ananova ^ | 5-6-2003

[blam]

Cheese 'can be as addictive as morphine'

An American doctor has claimed that cheese can be as addictive as morphine.

Dr Neal Barnard, president of the Physicians Committee on Responsible Medicine, says cheese is addictive because it contains small amounts of morphine from cows' liver.

In his book - Breaking the Food Seduction: The Hidden Reasons Behind Food Cravings and Seven Steps to End them Naturally - he explains why people are hooked on products like cheese, meat, sugar and chocolate.

He says: "There's a biochemical reason many of us feel we can't live without our daily fix.

"Cheese, for example, contains high levels of casein, a protein that breaks apart during digestion to produce morphine-like opiate compounds, called casomorphins.

"These opiates are believed to be responsible for the mother-infant bond that occurs during nursing. It's no surprise many of us feel bonded to the refrigerator."

Dr Barnard says his research could help overweight people currently suing fast food restaurants, by proving the food is addictive like tobacco.

He has developed a three-week diet and lifestyle program to help people kick their 'addiction' by changing their eating habits, exercising and sleeping well.

Story filed: 13:51 Friday 6th June 2003

[vetvetdoug]

I am addicted to sex with women over 18 years old and below 60. Does that mean I can sue women for my problem? I am constantly craving sex and will do just about anything for sex; lower my self esteem, crawl and beg for it, pay for it, take risks and anything else to further my addiction. However, I did have standards but the addiction has overridden them, I am now considering women over 60.

[fightinJAG]

I had to look twice: I thought this article was written by Steve Urkel.

[MarkL]

I believe this is the same group that a few months ago came out with milk was bad for you....

I think the study they refered to was that if scientists gave lab rats 6 gallons of milk a day, they tended to explode, hense milk is bad for you.

Mark

[perfect stranger]

Leave it up to the "president of the Physicians Committee on Responsible Medicine" to do a study on cows with a morphine habit.

[mafree]

Will we now have a War on Cheese? If so, I better leave my state now.

[Old Professer]

Like the CSPI? (Center for Science in the Public Interest)

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

I didn’t leave him cookies…

I left him cheese!!!

TMMT

[PoorMuttly]

...and take it from me...Moose Cheese is the MOST addictive !

[boycott]

Hi, I am boycott and I am a cheese addict.

[Old Professer]

My gawd, what "udderly" soporific prose, I think I'll drink some warm milk and hit the old hay.

[Old Professer]

You gay dawg, you.

[aardvark1]

definitely cheese

[Radix]

Who moved my cheese?

 

[joesnuffy]

He can have my cheese when he prys it out of my cold dead
shorts

[Velveeta]

Heh, heh. Surprised you didn't I?

[boris]

Oh no! My guilty secret is exposed to all!

[Still Thinking]

But what about....

The Dangers of Bread

A recent Cincinnati Enquirer headline read, "SMELL OF BAKED BREAD MAY BE HEALTH HAZARD." The article went on to describe the dangers of the smell of baking bread. The main danger, apparently, is that the organic components of this aroma may break down ozone (I'm not making this stuff up).

I was horrified. When are we going to do something about bread-induced global warming? Sure, we attack tobacco companies, but when is the government going to go after Big Bread?

Well, I've done a little research, and what I've discovered should make anyone think twice ....

1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread eaters.
   
2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.
   
3. In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever and influenza ravaged whole nations.
   
4. More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.
   
5. Bread is made from a substance called "dough." It has been proven that as little as one pound of dough can be used to suffocate a mouse. The average American eats more bread than that in one month!
   
6. Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a low occurrence of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and osteoporosis.
   
7. Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and given only water to eat, actually begged for bread after only two days.
   
8. Bread is often a "gateway" food item, leading the user to harder items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter and even cold cuts.
   
9. Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.
   
10. Newborn babies can choke on bread.
    
11. Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.
    
12. Most American bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling.

In light of these frightening statistics, we propose the following bread restrictions:

1. No sale of bread to minors.
   
2. No advertising of bread within 1000 feet of a school.
   
3. A 300 percent federal tax on all bread to pay for all the societal ills we might associate with bread.
   
4. No animal or human images, nor any primary colors (which may appeal to children) may be used to promote bread usage.
   
5. A $4.2 zillion fine on the three biggest bread manufacturers. Please send this e-mail on to everyone you know who cares about this crucial issue.

Remember: Think globally, act idiotically.

[LibKill]

29 posted on 06/06/2003 6:52 PM CDT by Velveeta

So, you now come out of your camouflage as "American Cheese."

Some of us know you as "Velveeta, The Cheese That Cannot Die"!

[Betteboop]

"Teschemacher, Hansjoerg; Umbach, Martin; Hamel, Ulrike; Praetorius, Karina; Ahnert-Hilger, Gudrun; Brantl, Victor; Lottspeich, Friedrich; Henschen, Agnes. Rudolf-Buchheim-Inst. Pharmakol., Justus-Liebig-Univ. Giessen, Giessen, Fed. Rep. Ger. "


HUH???

[ladyinred]

Food is the new tobacco!