Certain foods—especially those with high fructose corn syrup (HFCS); fats; most processed foods, sweets and salty snacks—meet the criteria of drugs of abuse and their effects on the brain: loss of control over the substance, tolerance, withdrawal, and continued engagement with the addictive substance despite potentially dangerous outcomes. Yet, the notion that some food causes addiction by stimulating the release …
Children of the Corn Diet
In the past few decades, corn has been integrated in almost all food products on any market shelf. Whether the harm recently ascribed to corn is due to excessive consumption or genetic modification or both is a touchy subject. However, I predict some brave scientists will set the record straight, hopefully, in the near future. Following the destruction of the …