Pregnant women who munch on foods high in fat and sugar can turn their children into 'junk food junkies,' a researcher has warned. Junk foods have the same effect on the body's chemistry as opium, ...

Think of all the average trash a person goes through in one day: Straw wrappers, stickers, receipts, plastic, paper, coffee cups, bags, tags, the whole lot. Now imagine pasting every one of those ...

Last November, Science News reported on some exciting new data coming out of the 2009 Society for Neuroscience meeting on the eerie similarities between cocaine addiction and junk food cravings. Now, ...

The same molecular pathways that steer people into drug addiction also lie behind the craving to overeat, driving individuals into obesity, scientists say. The research, based on lab animals, bolsters ...

When you’re pregnant, that bag of cookies or chips can look pretty irresistible. But resist anyway. A new study suggests that eating a junk food diet during pregnancy may alter not only your own brain ...

“Wellness” is the latest buzzword in town when it comes to the marijuana-munchie movement. The cannabis community wants America to know, or at least it wants it to think, that instead of scarfing down ...

“Wellness” is the latest buzzword in town when it comes to the marijuana-munchie movement. The cannabis community wants America to know, or at least it wants it to think, that instead of scarfing down ...