Comments on: Rats Fed on Bacon, Cheesecake, and Ding-Dongs Become Addicted to Junk Food http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/03/29/rats-fed-on-bacon-cheesecake-and-ding-dongs-become-addicted-to-junk-food/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Illusions http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/03/29/rats-fed-on-bacon-cheesecake-and-ding-dongs-become-addicted-to-junk-food/#comment-17520 Illusions Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:24:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=12557#comment-17520 Well Arlo, no matter how many million years of evolution separates humans from rats, we didnt evolve to eat that stuff either. We have only been eating that way for a tiny amount of human history ourselves, despite what throwing the milions of years around may seem to indicate. Some groups of humans have only been eating that way for a couple hundred years. Less than the rats in some cases. So, I dont think that rats are a bad study subject in this case, and I hope the research ends up being helpful to those who compulsively overeat. I know too many people who struggle with weight who fail time and time again with conventional dieting. I would love to see a greater understanding of how to treat the problem so that they may succeed in what they sincerely wish, to lose weight. Well Arlo, no matter how many million years of evolution separates humans from rats, we didnt evolve to eat that stuff either.

We have only been eating that way for a tiny amount of human history ourselves, despite what throwing the milions of years around may seem to indicate. Some groups of humans have only been eating that way for a couple hundred years. Less than the rats in some cases.

So, I dont think that rats are a bad study subject in this case, and I hope the research ends up being helpful to those who compulsively overeat. I know too many people who struggle with weight who fail time and time again with conventional dieting. I would love to see a greater understanding of how to treat the problem so that they may succeed in what they sincerely wish, to lose weight.

]]> By: Art http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/03/29/rats-fed-on-bacon-cheesecake-and-ding-dongs-become-addicted-to-junk-food/#comment-17519 Art Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:19:23 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=12557#comment-17519 So, I probably shouldn't be eating junk food or my junk food eating rats. I can't have any fun! So, I probably shouldn’t be eating junk food or my junk food eating rats. I can’t have any fun!

]]> By: Arlo http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/03/29/rats-fed-on-bacon-cheesecake-and-ding-dongs-become-addicted-to-junk-food/#comment-17518 Arlo Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:44:53 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=12557#comment-17518 Congratulations, we've proven that rats overeat when we feed them food they never evolved to eat. Human beings, separated from rats by about 75 million years of evolution, on the other hand, find satiation in eating protein and fat, while sugar causes insulin swings and cravings. Yet another study in rodents warped to make fat seem bad. Unless it's trans or poly-6, it's not. Congratulations, we’ve proven that rats overeat when we feed them food they never evolved to eat.

Human beings, separated from rats by about 75 million years of evolution, on the other hand, find satiation in eating protein and fat, while sugar causes insulin swings and cravings.

Yet another study in rodents warped to make fat seem bad. Unless it’s trans or poly-6, it’s not.

]]> By: Paul http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/03/29/rats-fed-on-bacon-cheesecake-and-ding-dongs-become-addicted-to-junk-food/#comment-17517 Paul Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:16:57 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=12557#comment-17517 Yes, food is addictive. Ding-dong anyone home? There’s an interesting post over at the Health Journal Club that makes the case that people should just not eat anything that wasn’t a food 100 years ago. Gets rid of the aspartame, bleached GM flour, high fructose corn syrup garbage they try to pass off as food these days. If interested you can read on it here, http://healthjournalclub.blogspot.com/2010/01/100-year-diet.html Ummmmm Doughnuts Yes, food is addictive. Ding-dong anyone home?

There’s an interesting post over at the Health Journal Club that makes the case that people should just not eat anything that wasn’t a food 100 years ago. Gets rid of the aspartame, bleached GM flour, high fructose corn syrup garbage they try to pass off as food these days. If interested you can read on it here,
http://healthjournalclub.blogspot.com/2010/01/100-year-diet.html

Ummmmm Doughnuts

]]> By: CC http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/03/29/rats-fed-on-bacon-cheesecake-and-ding-dongs-become-addicted-to-junk-food/#comment-17516 CC Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:50:43 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=12557#comment-17516 All those years, I <i>knew</i> grandma was a pusher. =P All those years, I knew grandma was a pusher. =P

]]> By: Judy Brady http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/03/29/rats-fed-on-bacon-cheesecake-and-ding-dongs-become-addicted-to-junk-food/#comment-17515 Judy Brady Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:37:44 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=12557#comment-17515 Soooo, was high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) involved? Don't about a third of all calories we humans consume come from junk food. Shame on the food industry for tricking the brain into an addiction. -- a perfect crime. It took law suits to get cigarette companies to clean up their act--hopefully this study will provide meaningful support for real change in our food production to do the same. Soooo, was high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) involved? Don’t about a third of all calories we humans consume come from junk food. Shame on the food industry for tricking the brain into an addiction. — a perfect crime. It took law suits to get cigarette companies to clean up their act–hopefully this study will provide meaningful support for real change in our food production to do the same.

]]> By: nick http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/03/29/rats-fed-on-bacon-cheesecake-and-ding-dongs-become-addicted-to-junk-food/#comment-17514 nick Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:47:20 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=12557#comment-17514 That explains why diabetics wont stop even though it kills them. That explains why diabetics wont stop even though it kills them.

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