While obesity has long been blamed on weak willpower, overeating, genetics and lack of exercise, each of us should take full responsibility for our diet and lifestyle. Scientists have previously proven links between drug addiction and fast-food addiction and increasingly there is a growing body of research that is finding out how junk food is hard wiring our brains for cravings. , Fats and simple sugars can act on the brain in the same way as nicotine and heroin. New and potentially explosive findings on the biological effects of fast food suggest that eating yourself into obesity isn't simply down to a lack of self-control.
Balko, R. "Are You Responsible For Your Own Weight? Pro." Time 163.23 (2004): 113. CINAHL. Web. 11 Mar. 2015.
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They discuss the reasoning behind the epidemic and the reason why it continues through each generation. American teenagers eat many different types of unhealthy food. Fried foods such as KFC, McDonalds and Taco Bell are quite popular dining choices. Sugar –filled candy bars, chips and sodas are quick options at schools with vending machines. Many teenagers enjoy going to fast food places because of the fatty, greasy food. However, American teens tend to seek out foods that can be easily consumed during car trips to work, school or events. The increase in a teenagers busy lifestyles and the reduced time at home makes a large contribution to the selection of fatty, sugar filled foods that they may choose whenever hunger strikes. Much of a teen’s social culture tends to center around food, and that culture may never go …show more content…
Eventually, their brains became so over stimulated that they wanted more fast food to feel normal. When a rat over stimulates its brain with highly fatty food, the systems adapted by decreasing activity levels. Now there is a requirement of constant stimulation of the fast food to avoid feeling negativity in the brain. In another study, researchers fed a rat a food high in saturated fat and sugar that lowered the rat’s ability to respond to a hormone that helps regulate eating by altering how full they feel. These common factors may explain obesity and the validity it has with a drug addiction
Balko, R. "Are You Responsible For Your Own Weight? Pro." Time 163.23 (2004): 113. CINAHL. Web. 11 Mar. 2015.
Radley …show more content…
They discuss the reasoning behind the epidemic and the reason why it continues through each generation. American teenagers eat many different types of unhealthy food. Fried foods such as KFC, McDonalds and Taco Bell are quite popular dining choices. Sugar –filled candy bars, chips and sodas are quick options at schools with vending machines. Many teenagers enjoy going to fast food places because of the fatty, greasy food. However, American teens tend to seek out foods that can be easily consumed during car trips to work, school or events. The increase in a teenagers busy lifestyles and the reduced time at home makes a large contribution to the selection of fatty, sugar filled foods that they may choose whenever hunger strikes. Much of a teen’s social culture tends to center around food, and that culture may never go …show more content…
Eventually, their brains became so over stimulated that they wanted more fast food to feel normal. When a rat over stimulates its brain with highly fatty food, the systems adapted by decreasing activity levels. Now there is a requirement of constant stimulation of the fast food to avoid feeling negativity in the brain. In another study, researchers fed a rat a food high in saturated fat and sugar that lowered the rat’s ability to respond to a hormone that helps regulate eating by altering how full they feel. These common factors may explain obesity and the validity it has with a drug addiction