[Note: in previous versions, I mixed up "LGI" and "HGI" terms in a couple of spots. These are now corrected. Thanks to readers for pointing them out.]
Recently, a new study was published that triggered an avalanche of media reports suggesting that refined carbohydrate may be addictive:
Refined Carbs May Trigger Food Addiction
Refined Carbs May Trigger Food Addictions
Can You be Addicted to Carbs?
etc.
This makes in support of attention-grabbing headlines, but in detail the study had effectively nothing to act with food addiction. The study made nix attempt to compute addictive behavior connected to refined carbohydrate or one other food, nor did it goal to act so.
So could you repeat that? Did the study truly attain, why is it being extrapolated to food addiction, and is this a reasonable extrapolation? Answering these questions dredges up a digit of attractive technical points, a little of which chip away at general notions of could you repeat that? Determines ingestion behavior.
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