Out of Control Fatroll

The title of this post may scare you, but according to researchers in England, a diet of junk food (sodas, hamburgers, french fries, etc.) almost acts like a drug to your brain – and you begin to crave it more to feel happy. Granted, they tested this theory on rats — but the results are still startling:

One got normal amounts of healthy food to eat. Another lot was given restricted amounts of junk food and the third group was given unlimited amounts of junk, including cheesecake, fatty meat products, and cheap sponge cakes and chocolate snacks.

There were no adverse effects on the first two groups, but the rats who ate as much junk food as they wanted quickly became very fat and started bingeing.

When researchers electronically stimulated the part of the brain that feels pleasure, they found that the rats on unlimited junk food needed more and more stimulation to register the same level of pleasure as the animals on healthier diets.

Yet another reason to live a healthier lifestyle. And another reason for me to stop eating stupid candy corn all the time. Geez.