According to research presented at Neuroscience 2010, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, held in San Diego, Fat is altering your brain similar to the way crack, heroin and cocaine do.
"Our data show that chronic consumption of a high-fat diet leads to significant changes in brain chemistry," said senior author Teresa Reyes, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine.
Fatty foods tap the pleasure centers of the brain, the same areas triggered by cocaine or heroin. Reyes and her colleagues explored whether these pathways could be modified on a molecular level by eating a high-fat diet for a long period of time. The researchers found that the genes involved with reward were altered in mice fed a high-fat diet for more than six months. The authors suggest the changes, which may promote cravings for fatty foods, could have far-reaching consequences.
Basically, like with any drug, the more you have the more you want.
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