Are Certain Foods Addictive?

Are Certain Foods Addictive?

In a recent article (1), Dr. Rippe highlights that lifestyle medicine practitioners need to ground their recommendations on sound scientific evidence and that this is complicated by the fact that scientific information is often distorted and conjecture is sometimes confused with proof. This includes, for example, that associations between variables found in crosssectional studies are presented ...

Believing that certain foods are addictive is associated with support for obesity-related public policies.

INTRODUCTION There is a growing body of evidence suggesting that certain foods may be addictive. Although evidence that nicotine is addictive generated support for anti-tobacco policies, little research has examined whether beliefs about the addictiveness of food are associated with support for policies to address overconsumption of nutritionally poor foods. METHODS U.S. adults (n=999) recrui...

Adventure Thrills are Addictive

Behavioral addictions may have social as well as endocrine components, and may include antisocial activities such as crime and gambling, relatively neutral activities such as videogames and internet use, and positive addictions such as sport and exercise (Lichtenstein et al., 2014). Here I argue that participants in many forms of adventure recreation also experience particularly powerful behavi...

Are engineered foods evil?

KE VI N V AN A EL ST R OBERT GOLDBERG SAGS INTO HIS DESK CHAIR AND GESTURES AT THE AIR. “FRANKENSTEIN monsters, things crawling out of the lab,” he says. “This the most depressing thing I’ve ever dealt with.” Goldberg, a plant molecular biologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, is not battling psychosis. He is expressing despair at the relentless need to confront what he sees as b...

Lv. the Distribution of Vitamin B2 in Certain Foods