What's Your Addiction?

Remember there are no chemical solutions to spiritual problems.



From CNN.com - Study:Chocolate, BBQ addiction may be real - Apr 21, 2004:



"People who say they are addicted to chocolate or pizza may not be exaggerating, U.S.-based scientists said Tuesday.



A brain scan study of normal, hungry people showed their brains lit up when they saw and smelled their favorite foods in much the same way as the brains of cocaine addicts when they think about their next snort.



'Food presentation significantly increased metabolism in the whole brain (by 24 percent) and these changes were largest in superior temporal, anterior insula, and orbitofrontal cortices,' they wrote.



These areas are associated with addiction.



An estimated 30 percent of Americans are obese, meaning they have a body mass index of more than 30. This ratio of height to weight usually works out to being about 30 pounds overweight for a woman and 35 to 40 pounds overweight for a man."