Topic: Bart Hoebel

Is fast food addictive?

The fast and busy lifestyle of the early twenty first century has led many up and coming professionals to turn to fast foods as a major source of their nutritional needs. But eating fast foods on a regular basis carries a high ...

Break Your Sugar Habit

Before you say no, consider what you've put in your mouth lately. Now, HFCS accounts for half of all sweeteners, and the United States is both the largest producer and consumer of HFCS in the world. Take our sugar quiz-- and ...

Sugar Can Be Addictive, Study Suggests

A study of rats finds they show all the signs of addiction to sugar. Professor Bart Hoebel and his team in the Department of Psychology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute have been studying signs of sugar addiction in rats for years. The ...

Study Suggests Sugar May Be Addictive

12/10/2008 Print E-mail Science is verifying what many overeaters have suspected for a long time: "Our evidence from an animal model suggests that bingeing on sugar can act in the brain in ways very similar to drugs of abuse," lead ...