Oreos may be as addictive as cocaine, morphine

People's behavior differ when they consume cocaine and when they eat fatty, sweet foods because when one consumes cocaine, it triggers a pleasure center in the brain and causes the body to have certain reactions. But, whenever someone eats fatty and sweet food, it just makes them come back for more. It can become a problem because if they just keep coming back for more unhealthy food, it could lead them to be very unhealthy and obese. Cocaine and Oreo's are the same because they are both highly addicting, and you just can't have one snort of cocaine just like you can't have just one Oreo.
Just because you like the taste of Oreo's, that doesn't necessarily mean that you are addicted. There is a difference between enjoying the taste and being addicted. If you sit on the couch and have about 5 packs of Oreo's, and you eat one right after another, you may be addicted. But, if you eat about 5 or 6 Oreo's and quit eating them, chances are you are not addicted, you just wanted something sweet to eat so you had a few Oreo's.
The results from the rat testing showed that the rats were in fact addicted to Oreo's. The pleasure that the rats showed in tests showed that the rats enjoyed Oreo's more than cocaine.
Not everyone considers their health to be a big issue. Some people just don't care if they become overweight or not. Most people think, "Oh, I'll just have a few and I'll be done." It doesn't always work out like that. It can really add up.
The Oreo's aren't so addicting that you just absolutely cannot quit eating them. You can easily resist Oreo's. Just don't buy any. The study doesn't really say anything about once you start eating them you just can't quit. I think that would be an understatement.

Why climate change is good for the world

Some people may not think that global warming is a big issue, but it is. While global warming is bad, it also has its advantages. Global warming has several benefits, which include increases of human welfare, fewer winter deaths, lower energy costs, and probably fewer droughts.
"Especially cold winters cause a rise in heart failures far greater than the rise in deaths during heatwaves." Global warming would make our winters even warmer. More people die from cold-related deaths than heat-related deaths. According to the article, there are approximately 29,000 cold-related deaths every year. 
The increase of wealth will help us adapt to future climate change because according to the article, we could probably gain more benefits and lessen some of the harm done by adapting. Our best bet would be to just adapt because it would help us out a lot. 
As a matter of fact, yes we should care about how climate change has caused a 1.4% increase in global economic output. According to the article, it's "the difference between survival and starvation", for some people.  1.4% can really add up. One day it could possibly get up to about 5% and if we all work together, we could possibly end world poverty and hunger. 
It could be possible to compare the costs, but it could be possible to compare the benefits. For the cost, all you would really have to do is look at previous costs. For the benefits, same thing goes. Some policies you would have to go by are build wind turbines, growing biofuels, and substitute wood for coal in power stations. 

Literacy Blog: SAT's

At first, I thought it was crazy that people would just make things up to put into their SAT essay. “Just make one up. And I’ve heard about students making up all sorts of events, including deaths of parents who really didn’t die.” Even though that is kind of messed up, you have to do what you have to do. Especially whenever they give you topics to write a response to such as an episode of "I Love Lucy." Nobody from our generation really watches old-timey shows like that anymore. So, after reading this, I understand why people make up random things to put into their SAT essays. I also found it interesting whenever the article said, “It doesn’t matter if [what you write] is true or not,” because I would conclude they wanted you to say something that is true. But as I said earlier, you have to do what you have to do and if making up a story is going to get you a passing SAT score, I don't see why you shouldn't make something crazy up.
I understand that this generation is generally "smarter" than a lot of previous generations due to the fact that we have more technology which allows us more capable of being smart, and I also understand how judges have to be more strict while grading such tests. Nevertheless, if the writing part of a SAT is only worth one-ninth of the whole test, I don't see why they're so harsh grading them. You would figure that they would pay more attention to the parts that matter the most, but I guess they don't look at it like I do. Even though credible writing is crucial for getting accepted into a decent college, they should grade all three parts of the test just to be more fair. Everybody has different weaknesses and strengths.