The holidays and 'food addiction': Trigger foods and safety catches
Filed under: cocaine addiction and dopamine
… something commonly found south of the North Pole: food addiction. Peppermint bark pushers might sound significantly less nefarious than cocaine dealers, but they're offering folks the same surge of dopamine, Peeke explains in her new book, "The … Read more on San Jose Mercury News
A glutton for gluttony on turkey day
Filed under: cocaine addiction and dopamine
But if selection makes it hard to not overeat, it's nothing next to food addiction. That sounds like a strange … But the science is sound: Certain foods, especially desserts, trigger dopamine production in the brain, not unlike what occurs when an … Read more on Biddeford Journal Tribune
