Junk food 'as addictive as heroin and smoking'

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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...

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