Posted: 10/17/2005 5:37:25 PM EDT
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Received this in the e-mail about junk food. Subject: How to make foods addictive ADDICTIVE FOODS ARE AS BAD FOR YOU AS COCAINE. Foods are designed to be addictive for one reason-to make you keep buying that brand for the rest of your life-however short the addictive foods might make your life. If you don't think food companies intentionally make foods addictive, go to www.nutritionalresourcecenter.org or do a Google search on Chicago Tribune Oreo. There you'll find out how researchers from Kraft, the owner of all 51 varieties of Oreo visited the Philip Morris Tobacco Research Center and have had many meetings there on Astrology or on how they make foods more addictive. Or maybe they went there to study voo doo science. Who knows why they went there? To make foods addictive, there are three basic steps. 1. Remove as many nutrients as possible-use bleached white flour, hydrogenated fat,etc. You could add a couple of nutrients so it is not quite so obvious as to what you are doing. 2. Add as much sugar and fat as possible. The stupid side of the human brain loves fat and sugar. 3. Add as many flavor enhancers and appetite stimulants as possible(Oreo cookie has 23). Call them artificial flavors so no one will suspect your motives. These 3 steps are used by basically all of the major food companies. They say you can't stay in the food business unless you do all three. There are only a few small organic and natural food companies that don't use these 3 steps, which in essence are used to make food companies rich and their customers hungry all the time, fat and sick. Now you know why America has an obesity crisis-People are driven to eat certain foods just like certain people are driven to use cocaine or some other legal or illegal drug. Sad but true. ETA: I attended a conference some years back where one addiction researcher said they had found that dairy products were addictive for some people. Dairy addiction included a mild high, withdrawal symptoms, and all the other classical symptoms of addiction. |
What kind of choice is that? A McDonalds? Vs a bag of pot? A restaurant with a roof, running water, electricity. Ice, flush toilets, padded booths or a bag of pot? How big is the bag? 
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Pretty damn big. Think semi-truck sized. Only food at the McD. Assume the wait staff are zombies. Not a real stretch from a normal McD's actually. |
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It's the bleached white flour, hydrogenated oil (can you say "trans fat" and additional sugar that do it. Just about everything we eat that comes in a can, a box or a bag, is junk food. Check just about any food label you want for trans fats, or hydrogenated oil....it's virtually impossible to avoid. Trans fats mean omega 6 fatty acids (bad), which are pro infammatory. Our ratios of omega 3 (good) fatty acids to bad these days are abysmal...the "Western" diet has produced a ratio of bad to good that is likely to be 20:1 or worse. More and more research is fingering this as the cause for heart disease, NOT cholesterol levels. The theory is that it changes the physical structure of you arteries, which then allow bad things to happen. Omega 3s are anti-inflammatory, and promote artery health, among other things. Unless you are an Inuet, and eat seal meat and whale blubber, you most likely won't get any omega 3s in your daily food intake....but you will get LOTS of ogega 6s if you eat "junk" food. The push to "poly-unsaturated" fats in the 60s and 70s will turn out the be the biggest health disaster in U.S. history, barring another flu outbreak like 1918, since it's almost single handedly responsible for jacking up our daily omega 6 intake to unhealthy levels...and all of the health consequences that brings with it. 30 years into our poly unsaturate utopia, obesity rates in the U.S. have hit 25%, diabetes is rising exponentially, and any trip to a shopping mall will confirm that something is VERY much out of whack with what we're eating...it's killing us. I made a decision 2 weeks ago to drastically change what I eat. I now avoid trans fat religiously, take fish oil supplements, eat a boatload more fresh fruit and vegatables than I did, take an ass kicking multivitamin, and have even cut down substantially on my Aspartame intake. I've lost 5 pounds, and already feel a lot better than I did when I started. You can actually find traditional snack foods that don't have trans fats in them...What Thins, Tostitos, Triscuits, etc....that are better for you. They still contain bad stuff like sugar and enriched flour, but it's the trans fats that will kill you eventually. The other stuff just messes with the way your body processes insulin...while that's not good, it's not the same bad ju ju that trans fats are. Now, where did I put that whale blubber?!? |
I don't see anyone making any claims that it is entirely accurate. I passed it along just because I thought it was interesting. However, the History Channel (IIRC) did a show on how they produce new snack foods some time back and there is at least an element of truth in what they say above. Food companies are primarily interested in something that sells. If fat and sugar sells better than vitamins and nutrients then that's how the product will come out. |
You are in the wrong thread and apparently unable to distinguish between subjects.
Actually, the pot has enough nutritional value that it would keep you alive, too. |
One of the reasons I posted this is because I know someone who has a problem with this kind of stuff. Her husband works for a company that supplies convenience stores. As a result, he often picks up large quantities of potato chips, twinkies, and other stuff that has gone past its expiration date. These folks made the mistake of thinking that the stuff was too valuable to throw away so they started eating large quantities of it. The wife (about 5'3" tall) wound up weighing over 200 pounds and just got out of the hospital after having about five feet of her intestine removed. |
If you eat a shitload of Twinkies you'll get fat and be in poor health? Somebody write this up for the JAMA. |
Email + history channel = undeniable evidence. And to think, companies want to make products that people will buy. What next? Pfizer doesn't make new medications out of the kindness of their hearts? |
 Wait, you weren't serious were you? |
I wouldn't call that news. I just note that a lot of people do it. Obesity rates are twice as high as they were in the 1960s. Before you ask, yeah, I think my friends were stupid, and many of us told them so before she got to 200 pounds and having her intestine removed. |
Did someone besides you assert that it was?
Twinkies aren't medicine, the last I heard. Maybe you have new information. |
Plus you can make rope out if it. |
We are trying to teach our friends a new word -- "salad". |
Yes, actually. It was once a common food, and is still used as a food in some places. |