超加工食品是否具有成瘾性？

Are Ultraprocessed Foods Addictive? The perils of highly processed snacks BY LAUREN J. YOUNG T HE RECENT SURGE in the use of GLP-1-agonist weight-loss drugs has propelled addiction-adjacent terms such as “food noise” and “food cravings” into common vernacular. Now some neuroscientists and food-behavior researchers are trying to understand whether food—particularly ultraprocessed foods—can actual- ly be addictive in the same way as other known substances such as cigarettes, alcohol and cocaine. Potentially addictive foods are often “created in a way that is most palatable and most delicious,” says Alex DiFeliceantonio, an appetitive neuroscientist at Virginia Tech. “When you look at the food environment, those items tend to be ultraprocessed.” …