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10-16-2013, 01:19 PM
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Study: Oreo Cookies As Addictive As Cocaine
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/10/...ve-as-cocaine/
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Research out of Connecticut College shows that “America’s Favorite Cookie” may be as addictive as cocaine.
Connecticut College psychology professor Joseph Schroeder and four students studied in rats whether high fat, high sugar foods can be as addictive as drugs of abuse.
The research looked at the rats’ behaviors and the effects the cookies had on their brains.
“We found that the behavior they exhibited was equally strong for Oreo cookies as it was for cocaine or morphine,” Schroeder, the director of the Behavioral Neuroscience program at Connecticut College, told WCBS 880. “When we looked in the pleasure center of the brain, we found that the Oreo cookies activated the pleasure center more so than cocaine would activate the same center.”
The study came about when a student expressed interest in researching the obesity epidemic, noting that low-income areas tend to have a prevalence of fast-food options.
“Overall, it lent support to the hypothesis that high fat, high sugar foods can be viewed in the same way as drugs of abuse and have addictive potential,” Schroeder told WCBS 880. “It could be used to explain why some people have a problem staying away from foods that they know they shouldn’t eat or that they know are addictive.”
Connecticut College psychology professor Joseph Schroeder and four students studied in rats whether high fat, high sugar foods can be as addictive as drugs of abuse.
The research looked at the rats’ behaviors and the effects the cookies had on their brains.
“We found that the behavior they exhibited was equally strong for Oreo cookies as it was for cocaine or morphine,” Schroeder, the director of the Behavioral Neuroscience program at Connecticut College, told WCBS 880. “When we looked in the pleasure center of the brain, we found that the Oreo cookies activated the pleasure center more so than cocaine would activate the same center.”
The study came about when a student expressed interest in researching the obesity epidemic, noting that low-income areas tend to have a prevalence of fast-food options.
“Overall, it lent support to the hypothesis that high fat, high sugar foods can be viewed in the same way as drugs of abuse and have addictive potential,” Schroeder told WCBS 880. “It could be used to explain why some people have a problem staying away from foods that they know they shouldn’t eat or that they know are addictive.”
10-16-2013, 09:53 PM
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stupid headline leads to bad reporting on useless "science"
"mice prefer oreos to rice cakes every time" would have been a less-catchy headline eh?
http://science.slashdot.org/story/13...ive-as-cocaine
"mice prefer oreos to rice cakes every time" would have been a less-catchy headline eh?
http://science.slashdot.org/story/13...ive-as-cocaine
10-20-2013, 03:46 AM
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This is a surprise? They could have used ANY other snack food and found the same results. This just another case of auto-hating on anything large and/or "mainstream." That said, wasn't it National Biscuit Company that sunk retarded amounts of money into development of cookie packaging to encourage over eating desire?
It's the same principal that pack McDonald's restaurants across the world. Make it sugary sweet with no nutritional value and convince people it's part of this balanced as f*ck breakfast.
It's the same principal that pack McDonald's restaurants across the world. Make it sugary sweet with no nutritional value and convince people it's part of this balanced as f*ck breakfast.