Is cheese your drug of choice?

Are you addicted to cheese-- is it your drug of choice? Now there is science to prove that it's not all in your head.

A study by the US National Library of Medicine shows pizza is the most addictive food out there-- and the reason-- cheese. It's because it is highly processed and full of fat.

And the cheese on pizza has an ingredient that when digested releases an opiate into your brain-- and that triggers the addiction.

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