Oreos: As Addictive as Cocaine?

Oreos: As Addictive As Cocaine?
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In it, lab rats were exposed to one of three variables: Oreo cookies, rice cakes, or injections of illicit drugs including cocaine and methamphetamine. What the researchers found was that the Oreo cookies lit up the same regions of the brain as … Read more on Peoria Journal Star

Flavoring: Beyond sugar, salt and fat
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According to a recent article in Food and Nutrition, a publication of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, yummy food stimulates the same pleasure centers in the brain that are stimulated by addictive drugs like cocaine. And just like drug abusers … Read more on Monterey County Herald

Brain Iron May Be Key to Diagnosis, Treatment of ADHD
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Psychostimulants can be addictive and their use can lead to the abuse of other psychostimulant drugs, like cocaine. Scientists suspect that ADHD is caused by lowered dopamine levels. Moreover, a fundamental brain iron–dopamine relation, in which … Read more on Medscape