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How our brain responds to junk food packaging

Marketing messages hijack the same brain processes as drug and alcohol addiction

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Published in: Health
Tags: Addiction, Eating disorders, Neuroscience, Obesity

Children learn eating habits early, which can include associating eating with emotions or activities.

Mind the doughnut: emotional eating is a habit that can start in childhood

Creating associations between food and emotions is easily done but can set up children for a lifetime of unhealthy eating.

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Published in: Health
Tags: Eating disorders, Emotion, Obesity

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