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today is Wednesday November 29th, 2023 and this is a special episode of the excerpt. What do Oreos, Craft Mac and Cheese and lunchables have in common?

A new study out says they're all addictive foods.

There's a price there, but did you know

they were purposefully made that way

by Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds,

the two tobacco companies that used to make them.

Our guest, Dr. Neil Barnard, the president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine,

now joins us to talk about food addictions and how people can fight it.

Thanks for joining us Dr. Barnard.

Great to be with you today.

Okay, so let's dig right in, pun intended.

Is food addiction common?

How many people in the US are dealing with an addiction to certain foods?

Well, people are vulnerable to food addictions of every kind.

And some of these are pretty benign. Your morning cup of coffee, you're not having it just because it tastes good, people want that caffeine jolt.

And if they didn't get it, they miss it.

So that's a form of food addiction, albeit a pretty benign one.

But in some cases, it's not so benign.

People can get hooked on cheesy foods, meaty, fatty foods,

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