As we experience in our life: High GI foods are addictive...

It is like tobacco and lung cancer...

All the partners of the agro-food industry will negate it even after it is proven by fMRI studies!

Effects of dietary glycemic index on brain regions related to reward and craving in men¹,²,³,⁴

1. Belinda S Lennerz, 
2. David C Alsop, 
3. Laura M Holsen, 
4. Emily Stern,
5. Rafael Rojas, 
6. Cara B Ebbeling, 
7. Jill M Goldstein, and 
8. David S Ludwig

-Author Affiliations

1. ¹From the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA (BSL, CBE, and DSL); Ulm University, Ulm, Germany (BSL); the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA (DCA and RR); Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA (LMH, ES, and JMG), and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (BSL, DCA, LMH, ES, RR, CBE, JMG, and DSL).

-Author Notes

• ↵2 Funding organizations had no role in the design or conduct of the study; collection, analysis, or interpretation of data; or preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript. The content of this manuscript is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center for Research Resources, NIH, or Harvard Catalyst.
• ↵3 Supported by grant K24DK082730 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (Bethesda, MD), grant R01MH80729 from the National Institute of Mental Health (Bethesda, MD), and grant UL1 RR025758-01 from the National Center for Research Resources (Bethesda, MA) to the Harvard Catalyst Clinical and Translational Science Center at Harvard University; by a grant from the Pediatric Endocrine Society (McLean, VA), a grant from the Endocrine Fellows Foundation (Washington, DC); and by a grant from the New Balance Foundation (Boston, MA).
• ↵4 Address correspondence to DS Ludwig, Division of Endocrinology, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115. E-mail: david.ludwig@childrens.harvard.edu.