Overeating 'like drug addiction'
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Scientists show the same areas of the brain involved in drug addiction control appetite.
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Cans and bottles of sugar-sweetened colas, lemonade and fruit drinks, which many people think can be drunk with impunity, are today implicated as a major cause of obesity and linked to a rise in diabetes by scientists in the United States.
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Preschoolers who drink at least one serving of soda, fruit juice or other sweet beverage every day are likely to become overweight, new study findings show.
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Blog: The AMA will consider a proposal to have video game addiction officially classified as a psychiatric disorder. Bloggers say that's going way too far.
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Tough love is turning tender at  rehab clinics where gourmet food and whale watching are often  replacing bed making and group therapy as part of the treatment  for addictions to drink and drugs.
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The illicit availability of appetite suppressant pills online is fuelling a slimming obsession and putting lives at risk, experts warn.
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I plead guilty to past transgressions. So, call me a hypocrite if you will. I don't care anymore. I refuse to get stuck in the past because the present and the near future is fun. Indulge if you will in recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images experienced as intrusive and distressing. The obsession with Microsoft in Open Software communities is excessive and unreasonable and a product of the mind. My only hope is that such thoughts, impulses, and, or images can be expunged by logic or reasoning, which is contrary to the notions in the psychiatric community. read more
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A once-a-day pill that helps people to lose weight and stop smoking could be available within two years. The drug, rimonabant, works on a newly discovered system in the brain that is involved
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A new animal study suggests that a brain chemical that increases the tendency to overeat is also linked to increased alcohol consumption, MSNBC reported Dec. 14.
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NEW YORK  - A part of the brain involved in  both drug craving and judgment appears to be smaller in cocaine  addicts than in healthy people, researchers have found.
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Rats can become drug addicts. That's important to know, scientists say, and has taken a long time to prove. Now two studies by French and British researchers show the animals exhibit the same compulsive drive for cocaine as people do once they're truly hooked.
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Serious gamblers demonstrate a similar pattern of brain activity to people addicted to drugs, a study suggests.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Dieters beware. You might be watching what you eat but if a friend next to you is tucking into a calorie loaded snack you could be in trouble.
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Alcohol, nicotine and cocaine are a few of the substances known to be addictive. Now some scientists wonder whether food should be added to the list.
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The 12-step program has become a fixture of American life. In fact, there are now so many recognized addictions â with 12-step programs to match â that youâd think weâd run out of new ones to treat.
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A study shows how an increase in soft drink consumption may be linked with obesity and type 2 diabetes. In recent years, both diabetes and obesity have increased dramatically in the USA.
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Heavily drinking -- or binging -- even intermittently, almost doubles a person&#39;s risk of dying after a heart attack, compared to that of a moderate drinker, according, to a first-of-its-kind study, reported at the American Heart Association&#39;s Scientific