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By Kathy Michaels
A recent study concluded fatty foods are addictive and trigger responses in the brain similar to cocaine and heroin.
Having watched my mum and sister wrestle over a Mars bar long before Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown had their own drug war, I’ve been aware of the intoxicating qualities of sweets for some time.
Worse yet, I’ve my own dirty little junk food secrets I will bravely share today.
I can’t keep my freezer stocked with ice-cream snacks for fear excessive grazing will cause me to give myself a chill and drive up my electricity bill. The words cheese-burger makes me lose focus and lactose intolerance may be the only thing between me and a chocolate-induced diabetic coma.
Never struck me as much of an issue to bother anyone else with— after all the war’s on drugs not on confectioneries.
It wasn’t until recently anyway. If you follow chef-turned-fatty-fighter Jamie Oliver, you know that the up and coming generation won’t even outlive its parents due to dietary bugger ups. Not a day goes by where you don’t hear a story about some incredibly obese person being discriminated against in some way and I’m relatively sure that gyms and diet dealers were the only economic success stories during the last recession.
So, this study has sparked some deep thought about how the addictive and fatal qualities of fatty food could cause me to improve my bottom line, while decreasing the size of my bottom. Here it goes:
The extra weight I carry around isn’t because I can’t be bothered to follow the Canadian Food Guide like my freakishly diet-conscious co-workers. It isn’t because I’d prefer to watch television and eat popcorn than join a running group. Nor is it because I find the sight of spandex is offensive, and any activity that requires said material should be banned.
No, It’s because I have an addiction — possibly worse than my recently buried love of ciggies — and I have been preyed upon.
I am a junk-food-junkie and someone should be held accountable for my actions, possibly get me some waist slimming surgical intervention that I couldn’t otherwise afford. Someone other than me, I stress.
Like cigarette companies were last century, the Cadburys and McDonalds of the world are the true villains of modern society and they should be held accountable.
What do you think? Compelling argument?
Having just written it down, even I can’t believe it. But, that said, someone out there will likely give it a shot and haul out a class action lawsuit. It’s one of the things you can count on from a society without personal responsibility.
So, when fatties of the world unite, using this recent study and their cardiologists’ reports as evidence, all I can say is I can be reached at:
kathy@kelowna.com
2 Responses to “Kathy Michaels: Will junk food junkies see a financial windfall because of new study?”
Tags: Bobby Brown, cheeseburger, fatty foods, jamie oliver, Whitney Houston
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We are responsible for our food choices, addicted or not.
We blame companies for our diets, habits maybe someday our children’s habits.
Lifestyle choices all start with us. Turn off the tv, unplug the computer, turn off the ipod.
With less noise comes some clarity of thought, hopefully better choices.
Of course this is just one man’s opinion.
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If God really, really loved us, he/she would have made vegetables addictive.
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