Thread: Food Addiction And Drug Addiction: Brain Activity Shows Similarities, Study Finds

A new study from the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity suggests that a chocolate milkshake and a line of cocaine might not be so different.

The study, published Monday in the Archives of General Psychiatry, found that addictions to food and drugs result in similar activity in the brain.

"This past year we got interested in the idea of food addiction and the neural process," said lead researcher Ashley Gearhardt, a clinical psychology doctoral student at Yale University. "We just wanted to get down and deep into whether people really experience food addiction."

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Food addiction: Brain Activity Shows Similarities To Drug Addiction - latimes.com

Common sense and a rudimentary understanding of the brains reward system led me to the same conclusion years ago. The brain will get its fix one way or another.