Alcohol, cigarettes, cocaine etc. Like addiction to any substance, carbohydrate addiction also presents itself with well-known symptoms. Carbohydrate
criteria for addiction:
Craving and eating sweet or starchy foods in the afternoon or at night, at least four times a week
,
Carbohydrate craving that occurs with dysphoria, which is relieved after eating these foods at least four times a week,
(Foods with a carbohydrate/protein ratio greater than 6:1, carbohydrate foods
Studies Conducted
In an experiment conducted on laboratory mice, which were accustomed to being fed a diet containing 25% sugar
It has been observed that mice began to show the symptoms of drug addicts after sugar was removed from the diet.
Additionally, 94% of the mice introduced to water-cocaine and sugar preferred sugar.
Another group of experimental animals had unlimited access to sugar and fat
They were found to be obese. Scripps Research Institute scientists in Florida found that animals on a cafeteria diet continued to eat even when threatened with electric shock.
Entire brains created in rats. To investigate the modulation of food activity, behavioral preference tests were carried out to investigate the intake of foods with different fat / carbohydrate contents and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measurements. The brain of rats receiving potato chips and waste food ad libitum
The reward system has been associated with the modulation of other circuits.
The optimal carbohydrate/fat ratio triggers food intake in satiated rats
seen. An isocaloric fat/carbohydrate mixture, such as potato chips, affected the reward/addiction circuits of the brain in rats, but this interaction was found to be lower in the module areas compared to the waste food itself. Factors to trigger food intake beyond satiety include the pathways of the non-
homeostatic reward system-2, satiety and
prescriptive homeodynamics through different signals. It has been determined that it is associated with static energy balance.
Potato chips have been observed to be a strong modulator in the brain reward system activity of rats fed ad libitum
Different activation of brain regions by food. It significantly regulates intake, satiety, sleep and locomotor activity. Behavioral studies confirm that locomotor activity associated with energy intake and feeding is elevated when potato
chips are present
. The relevant brain circuit was strongly activated after strong restriction
, especially with the intake of highly palatable food. In general,
highly palatable food is high in calories and/or fat and/or
carbohydrates. For this reason, it has been suggested that high
calorie food intake beyond satiety may be a critical factor in obesity.
Recent behavioral studies have revealed that the main factors in the taste of snack foods are fats and carbohydrates. was shot. Additionally, it has been determined that the energy content of potato chips is predominantly (94%) fat and carbohydrates.
For this reason, it can be accepted that potato chips, with their energy content, are the driving force for hedonic hyperphagia.
Bart Hoebel at Princeton University also detected drug-like responses to sugar.
Experimental animals given high doses of sugar showed classic withdrawal symptoms such as anxiety, tremors and shaking teeth after the sugar was stopped. Regarding this, with the changes that sugar makes in the brain, the data that this addiction can be transferred to future generations is getting stronger.
Leibowitz from Rockefeller, when pregnant mice are fed a high-fat diet. ,
proved that neurological changes in the hypothalamus, the part of the brain associated with excessive appetite
, are transferred to the offspring. In 2010 in the Journal Endocrinology, University of Pennsylvania scientists found changes in the brain's reward mechanism in offspring of mice fed high junk food throughout pregnancy. It was determined that it was only for oil and refined
sugar. rats Considering the animal's life in a cage, the addiction mechanism is more difficult in humans. However, in some experiments, brain imaging scans of obese people and addicts
were found to be similar.
Nora Volkow and her team examined 10 obese volunteers at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
He conducted this study with PET scans placed within the brain reward mechanism
in the 2000s. The brains of these obese people looked different than those of normal weight
people. It has been determined that especially obese people do not have brain chemicals, dopamine
receptors related to drug addiction and the reward center. It is known that dopamine receptors are associated with addiction, reward
motivation and the feeling of pleasure. Two common channels for dopamine signaling in the brain are D1 and D2 receptors. D1
receptors motivate certain specific behaviors, while D2 receptors inhibit these
behaviors. If there is a deficiency of D2 receptors
it will not be possible to stop specific behaviors. For example, overeating
. This deficiency of the D2 receptor causes overeating behavior as the pleasure of eating is felt less.
The need to eat larger amounts of food is felt.
According to some scientists, the brain also According to the connection system, the first step of drug addiction may be overeating with high-calorie foods.
According to Zigman, neurons that enable people to say "I feel good when I drink milkshake"
It has the same structure as the neurons that drug addicts feel when they use drugs. In October, at the Society for Neuroscience
meeting, two drug treatments, baclofen
(addiction-reducing) and naltrexone (blocking opiates), were described
to try to prevent overeating in animals
. It was observed that there was a decrease in overeating in rats after the injection of the drugs, and it was determined that the double combination of these drugs was more effective than using them alone.
Study on carbohydrate addiction. The fact that there is so much research does not mean that it is still accepted worldwide. There is no disagreement that the human brain has had an attraction to fatty and refined sugary foods throughout its evolution
in order to survive
.
It works directly with a system similar to drug addiction< There are doubts about /p>
. However, in this context, food addiction should not be ignored
What needs to be done on this subject is more forward-looking scientific
research.
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