Warning: This substances can lead to Food Addiction

Food colors, preservatives, emulsifiers, and other food additives, are all being accused of… According to recent studies, in fact, can lead to Food Addiction.

The news was reported in the last issue of a weekly magazine that also draws a
ranking of foods that contain substances that can lead to a dangerous direction.

In itself, the additives are not harmful or malicious; rather they are governed
and regulated in our country, thanks to the legislation. In fact this additives
in a certain way modify brain behavior, making itself crave  more food rich with this substance. At least this is according to David Kessler, former
commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration of the United States and also a professor at Harvard.

According to Kessler’s research on Food Addiction

In some foods fast food, the meat is enriched with additives, with the aim to make it softer, crunchier, and tastier. All these devices, according to Kessler, stimulate our brains to create a real addiction to food supers flavored up to disdain the simple and homemade because perceived as ‘ bland ‘.

Other studies conducted on laboratory animals have shown that foods with increased quantities of additives stimulate behavior in rats similar to those seen in drug abusers or in patients who abuse drugs.

But we look at the rankings of foodstuffs which contain more additives.

The ready made meals -This is more salty foods than homemade. A portion of risotto with porcini mushrooms ready may contain 99% of the recommended daily intake of salt. This compound can lead to Food Addiction.but often times people are not aware of it.


Yogurt – Very rich flavored, which serve to give the flavor of fruit and acidity
typical cover of natural yogurt.

Then attention to mothers homogenized. Often they are very rich in salt, coming to contain 0.75 grams per jar. An amount close to that of a gram, which is the

maximum permitted for children below one year.

The list goes on and comes at a very delicate point: the one is about the weaning foods for children. According to research conducted by the magazine in 2008, in fact, only 6 among the 20 largest producers of these foods used herbs.

In other cases they use artificial flavorings, particularly the vanilla flavor. It seems that this choice is not causal, since that means that children, even as grown ups, they will continue to prefer the taste of vanilla (for example, many snack foods).

We can as well call  this behavior as Food Addiction.

A research on fruit juices instead shows they are so rich in sugars and sweeteners that children have come to prefer these juices instead of the real fruit itself.

In the ranking of course we can not miss the food from fast food, guilty of having abnormal amounts of salt. For example, a Cheeseburgers salt Content may even be about 6 grams, while a pizza usually arrives 3. At the bottom there are drinks without sugar or light. These really are not great allies for a perfect physical line. It seems that they are very sweet, though lacking sugars.

But our body, if stimulated with sweet foods, prepared always taking sugar and calories.

Not receiving them from the drink in question, in our bodies ‘ growing desire for sweet “that can then squeeze or excessive consumption of sweet drinks (even if unsweetened) or in search of sweet foods under our scope.

Our suggestion is therefore to try to consume more food and drinks as natural as possible to avoid Food Addiction.

Perhaps learning to maintain control and to realize quickly when you feel the sensation of not being able to do without a particular food. This could be a warning sign that should not be underestimated.