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How to Kick Your Oreo Addiction

Collide-a-ScapeBy Keith KloorOct 30, 2013 8:31 AM

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As I was plowing through my secret stash of Oreos today, I remembered this news from earlier in the month:

Connecticut College students and a professor of psychology have found “America’s favorite cookie” is just as addictive as cocaine – at least for lab rats. And just like most humans, rats go for the middle first.

While this is still preliminary research, I will tell you that I have sampled a certain faux Oreo and have not clawed the bag open with the same junkie-like behavior.

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