Junk food addiction: BBC News Review

The junk food you love might soon have 'addictive' written on it. A major review has found that adding warning labels to ultra-processed food could stop people buying it.
Researchers say these foods can have the same addiction symptoms as drugs.They estimate one in seven adults and one in eight children are already addicted to ultra-processed foods.
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