American researchers found burgers, chips and sausages programmed a human brain into craving even more sugar, salt and fat laden food.

Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in Florida found laboratory rats became addicted on a bad diet just like people who became dependent on cocaine and heroin.

While the findings cannot be directly transferred to human obesity, it found that overconsumption of high-calorie food triggered addiction-like responses in the brain.

But the study, published online in Nature Neuroscience, suggests for the first time that our brains may react in the same way to junk food as it does to drugs.

Dr Paul Kenny, a neuroscientist who led the research, said the study, which took nearly three years to complete, confirmed the "addictive" properties of junk food.

"Obesity may be a form of compulsive eating,” he said.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7533668/Junk-food-as-addictive-as-heroin-and-smoking.html



저도 패스트푸드 중 좋아하는 메뉴가 하나 있는데 먹고난 후에도 뭔가 끌리는 그 맛?이 있는데 그것 때문에 몸에 나쁘다고 해도 먹게 되는 것 같네요.  값도 싸고 하니 과식도 하게 되는 것 같습니다.    

이것 때문에 고민이었는데 마침 정크 푸드들이 마약과 같은 작용을 한다는 기사가 떴네요.  정크 푸드가 참 위험한 것 같습니다.