Hormone may lead to fast food addiction.

Science Daily has a story about the hormone, ghrelin, has significant implications for obesity.

The researchers point to how high calorie foods may actually have addictive qualities due to the effect ghrelin has on the pleasure and reward centers of the brain.

These same brain regions play a large role in addictions to like cigarettes and drugs.

If fast food is shown to have addictive qualities, then I may have to change my opinion about legislating healthy food choices.

If it's okay to punish people for smoking marijuana, then to be consistent, we should punish people for eating fast food too.

We'll see.