Add to your away from motivation- Junk food 'as addictive as heroin and smoking'

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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.