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07-29-2003, 09:55 AM
A university study suggests that foods with combined high levels of sugar, fat and salt are addictive. It states that this trio of elements make neurochemical changes in the body which leads to an addiction.
" new study involving lab rats has found that foods high in fat, salt and sugar might be physically addictive -- activating the same areas of the brain that respond when certain drugs are used.
"The combination of fat with sugar or fat with salt seems to have a very particular neurochemical effect on the brain," Ann Kelley, a professor at the University of Wisconsin (search) who co-authored the unpublished study, said on the Fox News Channel. "What that does is release certain chemicals that are similar to drugs, like heroin and morphine."
Others disagree:
"I've never seen anything that convinces me people get addicted to certain foods," said Ruth Kava, director of nutrition at the American Council on Science and Health (search). "Certainly if your blood sugar is really low, you're going to have physiological symptoms, but I don't know that it counts as an addiction."
What ever the differences of opinion in science, we believe:
l. Plaintiffs bar will use this argument in a big way
2. It is doubtful, if the these studies were subjected to the Data Quality Act, that they would pass the test.
Read Article (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,93031,00.html)
Read Data Quality Act (http://www.thecre.com/quality/index.html)
" new study involving lab rats has found that foods high in fat, salt and sugar might be physically addictive -- activating the same areas of the brain that respond when certain drugs are used.
"The combination of fat with sugar or fat with salt seems to have a very particular neurochemical effect on the brain," Ann Kelley, a professor at the University of Wisconsin (search) who co-authored the unpublished study, said on the Fox News Channel. "What that does is release certain chemicals that are similar to drugs, like heroin and morphine."
Others disagree:
"I've never seen anything that convinces me people get addicted to certain foods," said Ruth Kava, director of nutrition at the American Council on Science and Health (search). "Certainly if your blood sugar is really low, you're going to have physiological symptoms, but I don't know that it counts as an addiction."
What ever the differences of opinion in science, we believe:
l. Plaintiffs bar will use this argument in a big way
2. It is doubtful, if the these studies were subjected to the Data Quality Act, that they would pass the test.
Read Article (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,93031,00.html)
Read Data Quality Act (http://www.thecre.com/quality/index.html)