Girl Scout cookies are back, and the new inverted food pyramid gives me permission to eat them — sort of.

I’m addicted to Girl Scout cookies, you see.

I measure Thin Mints servings by the sleeve, not the cookie.  

I gobble down Tagalongs the way grizzlies gorge on wild salmon.

I once ordered so many Do-si-dos that the Girl Scout supply chain people called to tell me they “don’t-si-don’t” have enough ingredients.

So I was delighted to learn that my cookie addiction isn’t entirely my fault.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services, has criticized highly processed snacks, which scientists say are engineered to hit the “bliss point” — the perfect mix of sugar, fat and salt that can hijack the brain’s reward system and override natural fullness signals to keep us chomping.

Processed foods also contain refined flours, hydrogenated oils, emulsifiers and preservatives — cheap ingredients designed to extend shelf........

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