Science proves it? |
Food linked to addiction? |
Using the Yale Food Addiction Scale, designed to measure a person’s dependence on, scientists found that cheese is particularly potent because it contains casein Tim Gill --a professor at the University of Sydney and a public health policy adviser on nutrition, obesity and chronic disease prevention says, "I did a bit of a search and that lead to this discussion around whether cheese is addictive or not, and I found it quite interesting. The press release and promotion around it doesn't necessarily tie into what the study itself suggests."
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"Basically, they looked at the Addiction Scale on a number of people to rank the relative addictiveness of certain foods and, actually, cheese came down quite low at 16th. So, I don't know why they picked out the cheese in the list."
The researchers suggested that certain foods (such as chocolate, ice cream and French fries) were related to addictive-like behavior due to the presence of refined carbohydrates and fat additives in the food products, as well as the fast rate of absorption of refined carbohydrates. |