{"id":27824,"date":"2016-07-13T15:01:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T22:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/eating-sugar-and-fatty-foods-is-as-bad-as-doing-drugs"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:39:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:39:26","slug":"eating-sugar-and-fatty-foods-is-as-bad-as-doing-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/eating-sugar-and-fatty-foods-is-as-bad-as-doing-drugs","title":{"rendered":"Eating Sugar And Fatty Foods Is As Bad As Doing Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eating-sugar-and-fatty-foods-is-as-bad-as-doing-drugs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is it time for rehab for junk food junkies?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Apparently, all the burgers and smoothies you\u2019re consuming cause your brain to forget to stop eating even when you\u2019re full.<\/p>\n<p>Can you relate to midnight cravings and the feeling of perpetual hunger? Do you resort to grabbing fast food on the fly or eating out of a tub of ice cream while you\u2019re bored around the house?<\/p>\n<p>New research <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/obesity-brain-disease-diet-sugar-fat-makes-worse-a7132386.html\">reveals<\/a> obesity may be a brain disease that worsens in people with a diet high in sugar and fat. People who are diet conscious and eat healthy are less likely to indulge in sweet cravings and unhealthy snacks, since their brain recalls a sense of fulfillment derived from watching what they eat. Consuming sugars and fats hinders the functioning of the hippocampus area of one\u2019s brain, blocking from their mind the memories of when their stomach felt full.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carbonated.tv\/lifestyle\/study-draws-links-between-fatty-foods-sugars-and-health\">http:\/\/www.carbonated.tv\/lifestyle\/study-draws-links-between...and-health<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it time for rehab for junk food junkies? Apparently, all the burgers and smoothies you\u2019re consuming cause your brain to forget to stop eating even when you\u2019re full. Can you relate to midnight cravings and the feeling of perpetual hunger? Do you resort to grabbing fast food on the fly or eating out of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66931,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27824\/revisions\/66931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}