craving the cookie - OREO special report

[lbrowne]

Studies on Oreos and other snack foods suggest that the same brain chemicals that create the rush of narcotics also keep people coming back for sugary treats.

Quite different from what the sugar industry was trying to spin, eh? Full special three-part report from the Chicago Tribune. Well worth spending a moment on free registration to read.

On part two of the report there's a link to a colored graph of obesity trends in the US from 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000 and 2003.

~ Linda

[cleochatra]

Re: craving the cookie - OREO special report

Isn't that something?


It's about time the scientific community has made the valid realization that chocolate and sugar are both things which cause the body to react in a pejorative way, as do drugs!

*picturing man standiung on a corner outside of a wWeight Watcher's meeting eating Oreos out of a brown paper bag at his lowest... *hic*...*

[Finelly]

Re: craving the cookie - OREO special report

Well, of course, the difference is that with oreos I could stop any time I wanted to.

I just didn't really want to...............