Every so often, a headline pops up comparing cheese to cocaine. The reality of the situation is far more complex—and a lot less dire—than these articles might suggest.
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Sources:
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/scicurious/no-cheese-not-just-crack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7E0mTJQ2KM
https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/how-addiction-hijacks-the-brain
http://www.journalofdairyscience.org/article/S0022-0302(94)76998-8/pdf
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0117959
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn3212
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666311006222
https://link.springer.com/protocol/10.1007%2F978-1-61779-458-2_23
https://mindhacks.com/2012/05/07/as-addictive-as-cupcakes/
https://munchies.vice.com/en_uk/article/paax39/study-claiming-sugar-is-as-addictive-as-cocaine-provokes-controversy
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrendo.2017.61
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091305717300035
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