Is the mainstream media starting to take notice?
This article from Bloomberg is a must-read, I assure you. It discusses research that shows the addictive properties – real, serious, addictive responses to junk food as serious as the chemical dependency of drugs – occur.
I think that while the entire article is worthy of a careful read, one aspect jumped out at me – the total unscientific response the researchers got when they initially tried to get funding for the research:
Scientists studying food addiction have had to overcome skepticism, even from their peers. In the late 1990s, NIDA’s Volkow, then a drug addiction researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, applied for a National Institutes of Health grant to scan obese people to see whether their brain reward centers were affected. Her grant proposal was turned down.
“I couldn’t get it funded,” she said in an interview. “The response was, there is no evidence that food produces addictive-like behaviors in the brain.”
Wait…isn’t the point of research to find evidence?
I guess if you don’t look for something, it doesn’t exist…right?
Oh. Notice the unconscious bias in the headline. It should be ‘fattening foods’, not ‘fatty foods’…
Low Carb Confidential 
The headline reads, “Fatty Foods Addictive as Cocaine in Growing Body of Science.” Strange headline for an article about the effects of added sugars. Here’s an example of the proper use of the word “fatty” in an article headline. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/…/.html