<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>The Scientific Case for Regulating Junk Food Like a Drug : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/"/><tagline>The Scientific Case for Regulating Junk Food Like a Drug : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-08-21T05:50:21+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[The Scientific Case for Regulating Junk Food Like a Drug]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/61350/1/" /><id>61350</id><summary><![CDATA[The Scientific Case for Regulating Junk Food Like a Drug]]></summary><issued>2008-05-10T18:02:23+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-10T18:02:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Another argument has joined the mix as well: Junk food, like cigarettes, is addictive and should be similarly regulated. Initially, this was just a metaphor. Now it's becoming more than that. Scientists are trying to show that food literally addicts you like drugs.]]></content></entry><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%' style='padding-top:5px;margin-bottom:0px;' class='trh'><tr valign='bottom'><td><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'><tr valign='bottom'><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-comments'><a href='/plime-com/l/61350/1/' class='plime td mn'>comments (4)</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-related'><a href='/plime-com/l/61350-related/1/' class='plime td mn'>related</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-share'><a href='/plime-com/l/61350-share/1/' class='plime td mn'>share</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabs lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-history'><a href='/plime-com/l/61350-history/1/' class='plime2 td mn'>edit history (0)</a></td></tr></table></td><td class='minitabspc' style='width:100%' valign='middle'></td></tr></table><table width='100%' cellpadding='4' cellspacing='5' class='tline' bgcolor='#FFFFFF'><tr  valign='top' class='regular'><td width='100' align='center'><table><tr><td><div class='lev'><div class='ilev'>9</div></div></td><td><a href='/members/JDRucker/' class='plime2'>JDRucker</a></td></tr></table><span class='t'>3&nbsp;months&nbsp;ago</span><br/><br/></td><td width='50' class='plime' align='center'><a class='page td'>create</a></td><td width='400'><table width='100%' class='tline' cellpadding='4' cellspacing='0' bgcolor='#FFFFFF'><tr class='regular' valign='top'><td width='100' align='right' nowrap><B>reason</B></td><td  align='left'><b><i class='plime2'></i></b></td></tr></table><table width='100%' class='tline' cellpadding='4' cellspacing='0' bgcolor='#FFFFFF'><tr class='regular' valign='top'><td width='100' align='right' nowrap><B>category</B></td><td  align='left'>/plime-com</td></tr></table><table width='100%' class='tline' cellpadding='4' cellspacing='0' bgcolor='#FFFFFF'><tr class='regular' valign='top'><td width='100' align='right' nowrap><B>URL</B></td><td  align='left'><div style='display:block;width:250px;text-overflow:clip;overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/default.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/default.aspx</a></div></td></tr></table><table width='100%' class='tline' cellpadding='4' cellspacing='0' bgcolor='#FFFFFF'><tr class='regular' valign='top'><td width='100' align='right' nowrap><B>headline</B></td><td  align='left'>The Scientific Case for Regulating Junk Food Like a Drug</td></tr></table><table width='100%' class='tline' cellpadding='4' cellspacing='0' bgcolor='#FFFFFF'><tr class='regular' valign='top'><td width='100' align='right' nowrap><B>description</B></td><td  align='left'>Another argument has joined the mix as well: Junk food, like cigarettes, is addictive and should be similarly regulated. Initially, this was just a metaphor. Now it's becoming more than that. Scientists are trying to show that food literally addicts you like drugs.</td></tr></table><table width='100%' class='tline' cellpadding='4' cellspacing='0' bgcolor='#FFFFFF'><tr class='regular' valign='top'><td width='100' align='right' nowrap><B>descriptive tags</B></td><td  align='left'>junk, obese, addiction, fat, drugs</td></tr></table><table width='100%' class='tline' cellpadding='4' cellspacing='0' bgcolor='#FFFFFF'><tr class='regular' valign='top'><td width='100' align='right' nowrap><B>thumbnail</B></td><td  align='left'><img src='http://rookery1.plime.com/storage/486500/486944_3d58_90x90.png' style='border:1px solid #CDCDCD;background-color:#E6E6E6;width:90px'/><br/></td></tr></table></td><td width='50' align='center'><div id='rate_91821'><table cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr><td align='center'  nowrap="nowrap"><span id='au91821' class='arrowup'><a href='/addrateaction.p?redirect=1&amp;t=a&amp;i=91821&amp;s=1&amp;pid=50&amp;u=%2Fl%2F61350%2Dhistory%2F1%2F' title='vote up' onclick='rateact(1,91821,50,"a","%2Fl%2F61350%2Dhistory%2F1%2F");return false;'><!--n--></a></span><span id='am91821' class='regular' style='border-color:#C8C8C8;padding:3px'><b><span id='vc91821'>-70</span></b></span><span id='ad91821' class='arrowdown'><a href='/addrateaction.p?redirect=1&amp;t=a&amp;i=91821&amp;s=-1&amp;pid=50&amp;u=%2Fl%2F61350%2Dhistory%2F1%2F' title='vote down' onclick='rateact(-1,91821,50,"a","%2Fl%2F61350%2Dhistory%2F1%2F");return false;'><!--n--></a></span></td></tr></table><span id='vcn91821' style='display:none'></span></div></td></tr></table></feed>