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When rats raised on regular chow were suddenly given unrestricted access to a high-fat diet, they lost complete control over their eating. Not even mild foot shocks kept them from compulsively feasting on chocolate bars, cream-stuffed cakes, sausage, frosting and other highly palatable human foods. Within 40 days, their body weight had increased 25%.

— National Post - Bacon and cheesecake have an effect on the brain similar to heroin and cocaine

As tests on rats go, eating bacon and cream cakes sounds pretty reasonable. It certainly beats being dosed with ethanol until you develop stomach ulcers.