Oreos Harmful Effects

Most people know the harmful effects of drugs like cocaine, but what they don't know is the harmful effects of sugary products like Oreos. An experiment was run by a neuroscience professor named Joseph Schroeder,the experiment was to test the addictiveness of foods with a high amount of sugar in rats. The results showed that food with a high amount of sugar activated more neurons in the rat's’ brain than cocaine or morphine. Companies are adding extra sugar to products to get consumers get addicted, but the amount of sugar being added can cause harmful effects such as obesity.

Companies are adding extra sugar to their products to get consumers addicted for instance in the article “ Sugar shock coming to food labels”. “When the Environmental Working Group studied 80,000 food products, it found that 58 percent had extra sugar added.”(Tribune Washington Bureau 1). This statement
“high-sugar foods stimulate the brain in the same way that drugs do," ”( The Hartford Courant 1). This statement proves that companies adding a high amount of sugar to foods is dangerous because if high sugar foods stimulate the brain the same way drugs do, then high sugar foods are just as dangerous as drugs. Another example can be found in the article “Oreos stimulate the brain the same way drugs do, at least in rats”. “Honohan was interested in the fact that so many people in lower-income communities are obese”( The Hartford Courant 1). This statement proves that the amount of sugar being added into product can cause harmful effects, because people in lower income neighborhoods do not make a lot of money and will want to buy cheap products such as and a lot of sugar filled products are cheap like Oreos,so people in low income neighborhoods will buy sugar filled products which will give them diseases like