Get Up And Do Something: High-fat diets: Addiction that's hard to break

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High-fat diets: Addiction that's hard to break Dec 29th 2012, 11:37 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.

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