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"  You know how sometimes you go to grab just one cookie from your pantry and, like, two minutes later, there you are, back in the kitchen, hand in the bag, chocolate smeared on your face, just munching away? (Come on, I know I&amp;#039;m not the first gal to &amp;quot;accidently&amp;quot; polish off a bag of Chips Ahoy in one sitting.) Well, now you can blame your junkie-fied brain for making you pig out on cookies, chips, bread, and so many other delicious things (candy! ice cream!). Because research just published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that food\u2014namely highly processed carbs\u2014can be as addictive as heroin and nicotine. When you think about it, it kinda makes sense...   The study gave men test meals in the form of milkshakes that were totally the same, except some had rapidly digesting (high-glycemic index) carbohydrates, and the others had slowly digesting (low-glycemic index) carbs. The former group had super crazy hunger pangs and their brains showed hyped-up activation in their nucleus accumbens, which is the region involved with addictive behavior. So, basically, the more  high-glycemic carbs you eat, the more you want to eat, until you find yourself in a food coma surrounded by empty wrappers (and shame). But, even then, you could still probably go for another cookie.  Man...this news really takes the fun out of the whole  cake-for-breakfast idea.  Want more from Natasha? Follow her on Twitter or find her on Facebook. Photo: NBC  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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