(NewsNation) — Junk food can be hard to put down, but is it addicting? New research says yes. According to a study published in the journal Addiction, highly processed foods meet the same criteria that were used to classify tobacco as an addictive substance.
There is a twist however, and that is at least one McDonalds meal provides some vitamins and fat is not always a bad thing. On the other hand cigarettes only deplete the vitamins in your body and they let off what is said to be over 4,000 separate chemicals in your body, 50 known to contribute to cancer.
The answer is yes. According to a study by the University of Florida, sugary foods can be as addictive as nicotine and cocaine.
“The smoke from cigarettes takes 10 seconds to stir the brain, but a touch of sugar on the tongue will do so in a little more than a half second, or six hundred milliseconds, to be precise,” he writes. “That's nearly 20 times faster than cigarettes.”
“Sugary drinks are just as bad as smoking cigarettes,” said Assistant Speaker Felix W. Ortiz. “Both are harmful, resulting in poor health to those who take them. What more does it take to convince people that smoking can lead to cancer and that sugar calories bring on obesity, high blood pressure and heart disease?
Nicotine can harm the developing adolescent brain. The brain keeps developing until about age 25. Using nicotine in adolescence can harm the parts of the brain that control attention, learning, mood, and impulse control.
Of the hedonic substances found in food, only alcohol, caffeine, and sugar are addictive.
Cravings for ice cream can be insatiable—it's all about the sugar content and creamy texture, and researchers agree that foods like ice cream, which is basically cream and milk, stimulate the brain in the same way drugs do, inducing behaviors that resemble addiction, says Keri Glassman, RD, a dietitian in New York City ...
After you quit, cravings develop when your body wants nicotine. This may occur long after your body is no longer addicted to nicotine. In addition to this physical craving, you may experience a psychological craving to use a tobacco product when you see people smoking or are around other triggers.
Nicotine has been proven to be as addictive as cocaine and heroin and may even be more addictive. Many people who smoke develop nicotine dependence, which makes quitting all the harder, especially when they try to stop smoking on their own.
The younger a person is when they start using tobacco, the more likely they are to become addicted. Nicotine exposure during adolescence can disrupt normal brain development. Because of nicotine's powerfully addictive nature and major effects on the developing brain, no tobacco products are safe for youth to use.
Today, eating processed foods and fast foods may kill more people prematurely than cigarette smoking. Authorities determined the 71% figure by classifying people with a body mass index (BMI) over 25 kg/m2 as overweight or obese.
They to are chock-full of chemicals, carcinogens and sugar/carbs, which has a metabolic impact. If you consume three McDonald's hamburgers, fries and a soda, even diet, for one meal per day, versus smoking one cigarette per day, it's likely they are both equally as bad for you. It's six of one, half a dozen of another.
Based on their findings, researchers determined that obesity caused as much as 47 percent more life-years lost than tobacco, while tobacco caused people to lose about the same number of years from their life as high blood pressure.
These include increasing Awareness, restricting the Availability of drugs, and increasing Affordability and Accessibility to treatment programmes.
Black addresses three major rules that exist within families when someone has a chemical dependency; don't talk, don't trust, and don't feel.
Gambling Addiction
Of all behavioral addictions, an addiction to gambling is the one that most closely resembles drug and alcohol addiction. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) classifies gambling disorder as an addictive disorder.
Additives in fast food, such as monosodium glutamate (MSG) or sodium, suppress the hormone that tells your body that you're full. And a snack or dessert high in sugar releases dopamine, the hormone and chemical neurotransmitter that sends pleasure signals to your brain.
Steak. A thick, juicy steak can be addictive because the blood in red meat contains albumin, hemoglobin and gamma globulin, chemicals that activate the body's opioid receptors — just like heroin, albeit on a far smaller scale.
“Unhealthy food is so cheap because the prime ingredients can be mass produced and these products can be created in a non-perishable form,” Ms Taylor said. “We have this situation where it is very easy to buy very cheap calories with very low levels of nutrients.
The average IQ for a non-smoker was about 101, while the smokers' average was more than seven IQ points lower at about 94, the study determined.
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HOW DOES NICOTINE AFFECT YOUNG BRAINS? Nicotine is harmful to developing brains and its use during adolescence can disrupt the formation of brain circuits that control attention, learning, and susceptibility to addiction.