High-fat diets: Addiction that's hard to break | Synopsis

High-fat diets: Addiction that's hard to break

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Eating unlimited amounts of high-fat food for just six weeks before resuming a more reasonable diet is enough to cause anxiety, intense cravings and other withdrawal-like symptoms in mice. The rodents also experienced chemical changes in their brains that suggested parallels between the ways they respond to fatty and sugary foods and the ways they respond to harder drugs, like cocaine. Together, the new findings add to a growing body of research into the addictive qualities of junk food. "What this means from my interpretation is that it's important to prepare oneself for the low that can be experienced from changing the diet and removing palatable high-fat, high-sugar rewards," said Stephanie Fulton, a neuroscientist at the University of Montreal.

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Nicole Avena

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0.114782	"It's important that people know these types of studies are going on and that the findings that are being discovered are relatively consistent," she said. ...
0.0117122	"It's important that people know these types of studies are going on and that the findings that are being discovered are relatively consistent," she said. "It might make people think twice about the kinds of foods they eat and why they are eating them and whether there might be some kind of addition-like compulsion to eat certain kinds of foods."
0.159871	"It's a new way to think about food," she added. ...
-0.156552	"It's a new way to think about food," she added. "It's about us having to eat foods as opposed to us wanting those foods."
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Stephanie Fulton

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0.0827934	"What this means from my interpretation is that it's important to prepare oneself for the low that can be experienced from changing the diet and removing palatable high-fat, high-sugar rewards," said Stephanie Fulton, ...
0.0581744	"What this means from my interpretation is that it's important to prepare oneself for the low that can be experienced from changing the diet and removing palatable high-fat, high-sugar rewards," said Stephanie Fulton, a neuroscientist at the University of Montreal. "We can try to plan for the low and replace food with other things that give us pleasure, whatever that might be."
0.0597639	"Even periods of high-fat feeding that don't leave to obesity can produce several important biochemical and behavioral changes that make it hard to give up," Fulton said. ...
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Eating unlimited amounts of high-fat food for just six weeks before resuming a more reasonable diet is enough to cause anxiety, intense cravings and other withdrawal-like symptoms in mice

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High-fat diets: Addiction that's hard to break

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