Scientists shouldn’t get hooked on notion that obesity reflects addiction to food
One of the most chilling newcomers on the addiction scene is dirt cheap and easy to score.
Known on the street as “Scream,” “Brain Freeze” and “Chunky Monkey,” this high is easy to ride — all it takes is $4 and a visit to your local grocer’s freezer section. You’ve probably encountered — and maybe even used — this latest menace yourself: ice cream.
Breathless media reports likening ice cream to cocaine were spawned by a recent study. Brains of habitual ice cream eaters showed blunted responses to milk shakes compared with people who rarely indulged. Like cocaine users forced to keep upping the dose to get that good feeling, these shake addicts, the reasoning went, developed tolerance to their drug. Once an emblem of wholesomeness, ice cream has been smeared.