Are Fatty Foods Addictive?
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2013-11-20

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DESCRIPTION: Those eating calorie-dense diets may have a reduced capacity to enjoy all of life's pleasures by deadening dopamine pathways in the brain.

What about that sugary soda pop? See my last video, Are Sugary Foods Addictive? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-sugary-foods-addictive).
So how do we break ourselves out of the Pleasure Trap (http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51977949)? By starting to eat healthy we can actually change how things taste. See my video Changing Our Taste Buds (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/changing-our-taste-buds). And healthy means whole plant foods, which tend to be naturally dilute given their water (The Ice Diet, http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-ice-diet) and fiber content. Not only is fiber also calorie-free, but one might think of it has having "negative" calories, given the fermentation of fiber in our bowel into anti-obesity compounds (as well as anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer compounds). For this reason, those eating plant-based diets eat hundreds of fewer calories without even trying. See my recent video Nutrient-Dense Approach to Weight Management (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/nutrient-dense-approach-to-weight-management).

Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-fatty-foods-addictive/ and he'll try to answer it!

Image Credit: C. E. Kent, Mirandala, colros, SeeMidTn.com (aka Brent), L.Richarz, and punctuated via flickr; and Evan-Amos and Paolo Neo via Wikimedia.

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