Scientists at the University of Michigan reported an interesting fact: pizza causes dependence. To this conclusion, experts came, having studied the nutritional habits of university students.

Every person has his own "habituation" profile for eating. He identifies those foods that a person eats with pleasure and in large quantities, not having the strength to abandon them. Most often these foods are high in fat and refined carbohydrates.

Naturally, the glycemic load on the body in this case is high, but a person is literally unable to resist the pleasure of a sense of habitual taste.

In pizza, for example, large quantities of cheese. In the cheese there is a protein casein, which during digestion produces casomorines - a kind of opiates. These substances act on the dopamine receptors of the brain, causing addiction to this product. And although casomorines are present in all dairy products, in cheese their quantity is the highest.

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