I thought this might interest some people and I thought that it kind of ties in with the fitness and healthy eating threads that have been popular here of late.

This is an article from the CBC website about all the various ways that the processed food industry very scientifically does everything it can to make their products effectively addictive. Although the food industry seriously goes out of their way to avoid using that term.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2013/03/05/f-vp-crowe-food-addiction...