Researchers Established Which Is The Most Addictive Food

Medical Silvia Meyer
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While researchers have contradicted the dependence of data processed foods, they tried to discover the food that causes the most addiction.

The study authors characterized dependence by factors such as loss of control over the quantity consumed ‘despite the negative effects felt, and although unable to give up the food they like’. Their study was supported by tests conducted on 504 participants who helped to discover the foods that people generally cannot resist to.

‘Although one of the causes of obesity are manifold, a factor that could contribute to addiction is caused by some foods,’ said the study author.

In order to test the differences between foods, completed by students using the 120 Yale Food Addiction Gerhardt scale, scientist carried out initially to determine the addictive substances. Students were shown pictures of different foods in parallel, and they decided which of the two they consider may produce dependence.

Not surprisingly, foods rich in fats and carbohydrates were among the favorites. As the author notes, alcoholic beverages with a higher alcohol concentration can cause addiction much faster than those with a lower concentration of alcohol.

Participants were divided by gender and body mass index, for researchers to be able to observe how each gender responds to some components of the food. But gender was not a relevant indicator.

Experts have found that chocolate causes the biggest addiction, followed by ice cream and french-fries.

A study published in the Health journal at Harvard, diagnosed the phenomenon of addiction after three components: the exaggerated craving, loss of control over the object targeted by lust and its use even where the risks to which the person is exposed are known.