Stop calling food addictive | Kima Cargill

But our processed foods are full of highly engineered additives. Let’s call them drugs. And these really are addictiveMany of my colleagues – researchers who study overeating – now routinely use the term food addiction, and advocate for its recognition as a psychiatric diagnosis.It’s true that rats, monkeys and humans show addiction-like behaviour when exposed to highly palatable, calorie-dense foods, sometimes even preferring them to drugs such as cocaine. But I’ve