Fatty foods can be addictive
垃圾食品似毒品易上癮

Research suggests that processed foods and sugary drinks made by the likes of PepsiCo Inc. and Kraft Foods Inc. aren't simply unhealthy, but may also be addictive, just like cocaine, Bloomberg reported.
研究表明，百事公司和卡夫食品等企業生產的加工食品和含糖飲料不僅是不健康那么簡單，它們還可能像可卡因那樣讓人上癮。

Lab studies have found that sugary drinks and fatty foods can produce addictive behavior in animals.
據彭博社報道，實驗室研究發現，含糖飲料和高脂食品會使動物出現成癮行為。

Brain scans of obese people and compulsive eaters reveal disturbances in brain reward circuits similar to those experienced by drug abusers.
研究人員對肥胖人群和強迫性暴食的人進行大腦掃描后發現，他們大腦中的“獎賞回路”所產生的變化和癮君子的大腦中“獎賞回路”的變化很相似。

Twenty-eight scientific studies and papers on food addiction have been published this year, according to a National Library of Medicine database.
美國國家醫學圖書館的數據庫顯示，今年發表的關于食品上癮的科研論文已有28篇。

If fatty foods and snacks and drinks sweetened with sugar and high fructose corn syrup are proven to be addictive, food companies may face the most drawn-out consumer safety battle since the anti-smoking movement took on the tobacco industry a generation ago.
如果高脂食品﹑零食﹑以及用食糖和高果糖玉米糖漿來增加甜味的飲料真的被證明能讓人上癮，那么食品公司可能要面臨自二三十年前煙草業出現禁煙運動以來最為持久的消費者安全大戰。