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Science of Cooking

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Food Can Be Literally Addictive, New Evidence Suggests (www.scientificamerican.com)
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, you gotta consume it multiple times every day or your body stops functioning, and you get sick and die. If there's a better simpler more succinct description of an addiction I don't know what it is. Same goes for oxygen, water, and sleep, those motherfuckers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, you gotta consume it multiple times every day or your body stops functioning, and you get sick and die.

That sounds like withdrawal symptoms to me...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can’t quit food if you don’t quit cold turkey.