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Fat People Are Drug Addicts

The stress eaters among us will not find this at all surprising: In a newly published study, scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have shown for the first time that the same molecular mechanisms that drive people into drug addiction are behind the compulsion to overeat, pushing people into obesity. The new study, conducted by Scripps Research Associate Professor Paul J. Kenny and graduate student Paul M. Johnson, was published March 28, 2010 in an advance online edition of the journal Nature Neuroscience. What are the practical implications for those of you who, like me, stress eat but don't want to: Avoidance.  There is no junk food in my home.  When I allowed it into my home, I gained 50 pounds in a couple of years.  To speak of willpower is to misunderstand addiction...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on March 29, 2010 (boomark / email).