When it comes to potato chips, cookies or chocolate, it’s extremely difficult to stop eating after just having one. Researchers Paul M. Johnson and Paul J. Kenny of the Scripps Research Institute in Florida have recently shed light on this matter. Their findings suggest compulsive eating triggers some of the same addiction-like responses in the brain as heroin and cocaine.
For the study, published online in Nature Neuroscience, Kenny and colleagues headed to the grocery store. “We basically bought all of the stuff that people really like Ding-Dongs, cheesecake, bacon, sausage, the stuff that you enjoy, but you really shouldn’t eat too often,” he said.
Hypnotherapy has helped a young woman from Hampshire (UK) overcome her eating disorders and fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming a model.
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