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June 23, 2003 Dailytelegraph.news.com.au Research puts meat on addictive list Some foods have been found to release morphine-like opiate compounds during digestion, according to researchers. Cheese and meat have been added to the list of addictive foods such as coffee, chocolate and sugar, new research shows.
Some foods have been found to release morphine-like opiate compounds during digestion, according to researchers.
Nutritionist Dr Neal Barnard said the biological composition of some foods caused people to become addicted against their will. "It`s not gluttony, weak will, or an oral personality that keep some of us tied to certain foods," Dr Barnard said.
"There`s a biological reason many of us feel we can`t live without our daily meat, cheese or sugar fix."
Dr David Cameron-Smith, of Melbourne`s Deakin University, said food addictions were more commonly related to emotional eating than the biological composition of food.
He said overweight or obese people were more at risk of addiction.
"There is no doubt a lot of people who are overweight develop very restrictive eating patterns that are built around their emotional state," Dr Cameron-Smith said.
"Emotional eating is very common and does contribute to overweight and obesity."
Dr Barnard discovered the addictive properties of cheese when research uncovered people moving to a vegetarian diet had a harder time giving up cheese than any other food.
Research was conducted through the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine for which Dr Barnard is president.
About 70 per cent of the population experience a food craving episode.
Experiments, such as one published in nutrition journal Appetite in 1999, show many foods produce cravings based on an emotional response.
"It is very common for human beings to experience cravings," Dr Cameron-Smith said. "Food cravings are normal for people, it`s just how we respond to it that is important.
"All food is addictive, we have to eat and we gain a lot of pleasure from eating."
Source: Dailytelegraph.news.com.au
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