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Why doughnut are like a drug addiction

High-fat and high-carb food trick the brain into thinking it has a higher energy value

16-Jun-2018

Key points from article :

Foods containing fats and carbs don’t generally exist naturally.

Brain seems to overestimate the energetic value of the food.

These foods act like drugs of abuse on the brain.

Extreme low carbohydrates v low fat diets studied.

No ability to predict which diet better for an individual

Main tip: get rid of added sugar and refined grains.

Food seen as more rewarding when fat and carbs are combined.

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Dana Small

Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychology and Director of Modern Diet and Physiology Research Centerat Yale University.

Yale University

Private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut

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Diet and Nutrition