{"id":498896,"date":"2010-04-01T03:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/04\/01\/are-we-addicted-to-food\/"},"modified":"2010-04-01T03:28:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T07:28:00","slug":"are-we-addicted-to-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/498896","title":{"rendered":"Are We Addicted To Food?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/health\/\" rel=\"tag\">Health<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/healthy-eating\/\" rel=\"tag\">Healthy Eating<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.thatsfit.ca\/media\/2010\/03\/eating-overeating-ist.jpg\" \/>Ever feel like you&#8217;re physically incapable of putting a stop to your bad eating habits? Smokers fall victim to the ongoing cycle of endless <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=cravings\">cravings<\/a>, and it can sometimes seem like we&#8217;re caught up in a similar pattern when it comes to eating excessive amounts of unhealthy food. <\/p>\n<p>But while smokers can blame their habit on a need for nicotine, eaters can&#8217;t claim the same physical addiction &#8230; or can we? <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=addicted-to-fat-eating\">Recent studies suggest that people <em>can <\/em>get addicted to too much junk food, and it can be as serious as an addiction to drugs<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The studies, which were published recently in <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/neuro\/index.html\">Nature Neuroscience<\/a>, claim that excessive food intake can cause changes in the brain that lead to chemical dependency. It all has to do with the neurotransmitter Dopamine, which acts as a reward in the brain and is released when a person or animal engages in pleasurable activities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/04\/01\/are-we-addicted-to-food\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Are We Addicted To Food?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/04\/01\/are-we-addicted-to-food\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/forward\/19421977\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/04\/01\/are-we-addicted-to-food\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Health, Healthy Eating Ever feel like you&#8217;re physically incapable of putting a stop to your bad eating habits? Smokers fall victim to the ongoing cycle of endless cravings, and it can sometimes seem like we&#8217;re caught up in a similar pattern when it comes to eating excessive amounts of unhealthy food. But while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":652,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}