Junk Food Turns Rats Into Addicts

Most colonic therapists, including myself, observe a direct correlation between a diet of whole, natural foods with lots of fresh vegetables, and the body's ability to thoroughly and efficiently release toxic waste from the bowel. Cleansing the colon is not the same as cleaning out the pipe under the sink. Rather than getting in there to clean it out by force, we assist the body itself to release built up toxic waste in the manner designed by nature. Colon hydrotherapy is a simple and completely natural process.

I recently discovered an interesting study which indicates how serious is our need for eating whole, healthy foods on a regular basis. Below are a few quotes from an article in Science News. Click HERE to read the article in it's entirety.

Junk food elicits addictive behavior in rats similar to the behaviors of rats addicted to heroin, a new study finds. Pleasure centers in the brains of rats addicted to high-fat, high-calorie diets became less responsive as the binging wore on, making the rats consume more and more food. The results, presented October 20 at the Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting, may help explain the changes in the brain that lead people to overeat.

“This is the most complete evidence to date that suggests obesity and drug addiction have common neurobiological underpinnings,” says study coauthor Paul Johnson of the Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Florida.

After just five days on the junk food diet, rats showed “profound reductions” in the sensitivity of their brains’ pleasure centers, suggesting that the animals quickly became habituated to the food. As a result, the rats ate more food to get the same amount of pleasure. Just as heroin addicts require more and more of the drug to feel good, rats needed more and more of the junk food. “They lose control,” Kenny says. “This is the hallmark of addiction.”

By Laura Sanders, Science News