Fast food may be addictive, say scientists

News in Science - ABC Australia ^ | Feb 3 2003 | Reuters

[longtermmemmory]

There should be a law against suits structure to induce settlement as their primary goal. (jessie jackson) This is not about the merits this is about mutlimillion attorney fees and a coupon for a free salad for clients.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

That's silly.

Where's my Whopper??

[metesky]

Joe, I think I'll go with the goldfish response here.

They say a goldfish will eat to the size of it's bowl.

I used to live in a little five room ranch.

Now I live in a fourteen room Victorian.

Please, Uncle Guv, save me from hitting my bowl size!

[Thinkin' Gal]

Has anybody noticed how Dick Morris is looking more and more like Jiminy Glick?

[nothingnew]

I've been addicted to food since April 9th, 1951.

FMCDH

[TheBattman]

OH NO...here we go...down the same road as the Tobacco industry.

If a person smokes, they are KNOWINGLY taking their lives in their own hands. The tobacco industry didn't hold a gun to anyone's head to force them to smoke.

The same goes for fast food - it's a decision.

[onedoug]

Ridiculous! I've been eating that stuff for forty years. It's not addictive.

[dfwgator]

This study is totally bogus (say are you going to finish those fries?), fast food is not addictive (say can I "supersize" it?). I mean I can stop anytime (hey do you mind if I wash this down?). I mean what are these guys thinking? (No, I said "extra cheese").

[mike_9958]

What a bunch crap... I quit eating fast food a year ago and lost 40 pounds... it wasn't addictive , it was delicious.

I still miss it..... sob.

[pfflier]

I just don't know what to say about this.

Try this: Soft science explains soft bodies.

[joebuck]

Isn't all food addictive pretty much the same as oxygen is addictive? And water? I mean if I don't breath regularly each day I go into some pretty serious withdrawal symtoms.

[jiggyboy]

Junk Food Junkie
Larry Groce
Written by Larry Groce

Released by Warner Bros. Records in 1976; playing time, 3:03
Was Groce's only hit, making it as high as #9 on the _Billboard_ Hot 100


You know I love that organic cooking
I always ask for more
And they call me Mr. Natural
On down to the health food store
I only eat good sea salt
White sugar don't touch my lips
And my friends is always
Begging me to take them
On macrobiotic trips
Yes, they are

Oh, but at night I take out my strongbox
That I keep under lock and key
And I take it off to my closet
Where nobody else can see
I open that door so slowly
Take a peek up north and south
Then I pull out a Hostess Twinkie
And I pop it in my mouth

Yeah, in the daytime I'm Mr. Natural
Just as healthy as I can be
But at night I'm a junk food junkie
Good lord have pity on me

Well, at lunchtime
You can always find me
At the Whole Earth Vitamin Bar
Just sucking on my plain white yogurt
From my hand thrown pottery jar
And sippin' a little hand pressed cider
With a carrot stick for dessert
And wiping my face
In a natural way
On the sleeve of my peasant shirt
Oh yeah

Ah, but when that clock strikes midnight
And I'm all by myself
I work that combination
On my secret hideaway shelf
And I pull out some Fritos corn chips
Dr. Pepper and an Ole Moon Pie
Then I sit back in glorious expectation
Of a genuine junk food high

Oh yeah, in the daytime I'm Mr. Natural
Just as healthy as I can be
But at night I'm a junk food junkie
Good lord have pity on me

My friends down at the commune
They think I'm pretty neat
Oh, I don't know nothing about arts and crafts
But I give 'em all something to eat
I'm a friend to old Euell Gibbons
And I only eat homegrown spice
I got a John Keats autographed Grecian urn
Filled up with my brown rice
Yes, I do

Oh, but folks lately I have been spotted
With a Big Mac on my breath
Stumbling into a Colonel Sanders
With a face as white as death
I'm afraid someday they'll find me
Just stretched out on my bed
With a handful of Pringles Potato Chips
And a Ding Dong by my head

In the daytime I'm Mr. Natural
Just as healthy as I can be
But at night I'm a junk food junkie
Good lord have pity on me

[John Locke]

"Highly palatable foods and highly potent sexual stimuli are the only stimuli capable of activating the dopamine system with anywhere near the potency of addictive drugs"

Sorry, couldn't resist posting a link to a similar story in my favorite sleazy tabloid:

Fast food sends schoolgirls into sexual feeding frenzy.