In the article "Overeating, Like Drug Use, Rewards And Alters Brain" we learn that eating can alter your brain. In the article it explains that a scientist, Ralph DiLeone studied that cocaine addicts brain circuits perform the same impulses as of some one who is hungry. So your brain reacts to food as if you are on a diet, is the same reaction a drug addict reacts to drug withdrawl. Even though the person on a diet is on a less severe case of withdrawl as a drug addict, but their symptoms are similar. They also explain that your brain reacts and wants sweet and fatty foods more than others. These foods can act as a drug also and in some cases, people who are "addicted" to sweet and fatty foods can't go a day without them. Theres no wonder what our brains can get addicted to.
This article was very interesting to me. Theres really no wonder what our brains are capable of doing and getting addicted to. Maybe thats the reason for obesity in the United States. People get addicted to the fatty and sweet foods and slowly gain weight. Mcdonalds are the drug dealers and our community is the helpless victims.
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