IS FAST food addictive? That question has set alarm bells ringing across the food industry. If meals high in fat and sugar were found to work on the brain in the same way as nicotine or heroin, they could be classed as health hazards and taxed and labelled just like cigarettes (Â鶹´«Ã½, 1 February, p 26). Fast-food giants could follow tobacco companies in paying out huge sums in damages to people who claimed they had been made ill by their products.
But there is something wrong with this picture. The contention made by several neuroscientists, and repeated again…
