Janice Jin Hwang, chief of the division of endocrinology and metabolism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, explains that there are these networks of brain regions that have been very well characterized, mainly in addiction literature, that control our desire and motivation for food but also for addicting things. One reason food lights up reward pathways is that its essential for survival, says Lorenzo Leggio, an addiction researcher at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Institute on Drug Abuse
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