Study: Junk Food May be as Addictive as Cocaine

By Matt Van Hoven 

In your tepid Monday afternoon research reports, a study performed on rats (but that can’t be applied to humans, yet) suggests junk foods may be as addictive as drugs like cocaine.

“The study, involving rats, found that overconsumption of high-calorie food can trigger addiction-like responses in the brain and that high-calorie food can turn rats into compulsive eaters in a laboratory setting, the article said,” reports Reuters.

So how’d they do it? Scientists bought a bunch of crappy food. Then they split rats into three separate groups. The first ate only healthy food. The second ate healthy food but had access to the junk for an hour per day. The third also got healthy food but had unlimited access to junk, all day. Each set was trained to expect a small shock when “exposed to a light” but apparently the third group totally turned off their fear. Which means, in our expert opinion, they’re totally junk-food-junkies.

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Also, if there’s a human link to this study, pretty much all of you are going to jail for making us all addicts to this shit. Thanks for your years of service.

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