Junk Food and Addiction – How Cheesecake and Bacon are Like Heroin and Cocaine

Brain Foods, Brain Health, Brain Plasticity, Drugs, Neuroscience

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that helps produce a reward response in the brain. This response kicks into action when we do something pleasurable- like eating highly palatable food. It is known that there is a reduction in this reward response in obese people. However, it is unclear whether the reduction in reward precedes obesity and…