Food as Addictive as Drugs?
Bestselling author of Slim for Life,
Jason Vale, refers to sugar as "the cocaine of the food
world" due to its addictive nature and potentially
devastating effects.
Researchers led by Dr. John Hoebel at
Princeton University in New Jersey tested this theory on
rats. They fed the rats foods containing 25% sugar and
then removed it from their diet. The rats were thrown into
a state of anxiety and suffered from chattering teeth and
the
shakes—symptoms similar to those seen in
people withdrawing from nicotine and
morphine.
The study suggested that sugar is addictive
as Dr. Hoebel stated "some
animals—and by extension some people—can
become overly dependent on sweet
food."
