Fast Food Genocide by Joel Fuhrman M.D. robert phillips

Author:Joel Fuhrman, M.D., robert phillips
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-29T16:00:00+00:00

FAST FOOD IS ADDICTIVE

Consuming fast food is legal and socially acceptable. But these foods, rich in added sweeteners, salt, oils, and artificial flavoring (called “highly palatable foods” by scientists) have addictive properties. Eating a little makes you want more. Overeating and substance/drug abuse share important common characteristics, including tolerance (needing greater amounts over time to reach the same “high”), unsuccessful efforts to cut back on consumption, and use of the substance despite negative consequences. 13

Sugar-izing all foods to reach the “bliss point” that maximizes pleasure (and purchases), leads to a gradual deadening of the taste buds. Over time, this has two negative consequences: First, you crave more and more sugar; and second, the level of sweetness in natural foods (such as berries and carrots) no longer has any appeal. Children raised on fast food meals, soda, and frequent junk food treats do not like fruits and vegetables. Why? Because they can hardly taste these foods. Their taste buds have been shut down by excess salt and sugar and simply can’t register the nuances of flavors in real food.

Fast food prevents you from tasting the naturally delicious flavors of fruits and vegetables; therefore, the very foods that provide the body with the necessary nutrients to thrive and live a long, healthy life are made less desirable by human-made processed foods designed to cultivate addictive consumption.

Feeding sweetened soda, doughnuts, cake, and junk food to children is practically the same as handing them a shot of whiskey or lighting up a cigarette for them. There is just a small degree of difference between one addictive, dangerous substance and another. The same brain centers are stimulated by cocaine, narcotics, and super-sweetened foods. It is debatable which is more deadly, as so many people eat super-sweetened foods multiple times a day, every day.

Drugs and food can have similar effects in the brain. 14 We don’t eat solely because we’re hungry; we crave the pleasurable feelings we derive from food. Dopamine is a neurochemical that regulates motivation, pleasure, and reinforcement related to certain stimuli, such as food. The

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