Are You Addicted to Lousy Food?
“No one can eat just one!” (Lay’s makes that bag of chips sound hard to put down.) White Castle will sell you a “crave case” of 30 sliders. And Coke promises that you can “Open happiness.” (Yeah, that added sugar in a soda will do that — not. All that sugar adds up to a
fourth meal!)
The marketing pitches for fast foods have long trumpeted the addictive quality of everything from cola to potato chips and burgers to pizza, but it turns out this isn’t just hot air!
Researchers at the University of Michigan have been looking at what’s cooking up your persistent desire to eat fast food.
They’ve found that highly processed, high-glycemic, fatty foods are to blame.