An irrationalfear ofcaffeineaddiction turns somepeople against coffee, saysMarciaPelchat, afoodresearcher atMonellChemical Senses Center in Philadelphia.
"For most of human history, people didn't have enough to eat, so fat was something you really needed to seek out, " says MarciaPelchat, a food psychologist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia.