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Carbohydrate-rich foods can be addictive as cigarettes
Wellington:
Foods rich in carbohydrates such as cornflakes
and croissants could be as addictive as cigarettes,
warns expert. Lead researcher Simon Thornley, from
Auckland Regional Public Health Service has found
that people who binge on carbohydrate-rich foods might
be fighting addiction. A diet high in simple carbohydrates
from processed foods, such as white bread, sweets,
fizzy drinks and syrups, causes obesity. He revealed
that heavily processed carbohydrates lead to drastic
increase in blood-sugar levels, which stimulated the
same areas of the brain associated with addiction
to nicotine and other drugs. Thornley said that reducing
sugar content in commonly consumed food items enforced
by regulation could help get rid of the addiction
and bring large public health benefits. In an interview
to Britain's Daily Mail, Thorney said that the problem
could be solved in the same way as cigarettes banning
TV advertisements, taxing them and insisting on health
warning labels, reports the NZPA. The paper is published
in the journal Medical Hypotheses.
-Jan
9, 2009
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