Comments on: Do you have a food addiction? http://davidharsanyi.com/blog/2007/07/10/do-you-have-a-food-addiction/ Author of Nanny State Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:01:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: jolenemartin http://davidharsanyi.com/blog/2007/07/10/do-you-have-a-food-addiction/#comment-75 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:53:42 +0000 http://davidharsanyi.com/blog/2007/07/10/do-you-have-a-food-addiction/#comment-75 Whilst the satire you've employed here is undoubtedly humourous for those people who are not addicted to food you seem to have missed the point of the conference. There are people in this world who are seriously addicted to food...I am one of them. When I'm full I simply cannot stop eating. This isn't greed or ignorance...this is the way I deal with my problems and it's deep seated from a very young age. The science of this is that bad foods release certain toxins into your body that leave you feeling elated, a bit like certain illegal drugs. The body craves this feeling time and time again. I'm glad you haven't experience the problem of overeating but please don't dismiss something so readily that you have little or no understanding of. Whilst the satire you’ve employed here is undoubtedly humourous for those people who are not addicted to food you seem to have missed the point of the conference. There are people in this world who are seriously addicted to food…I am one of them. When I’m full I simply cannot stop eating. This isn’t greed or ignorance…this is the way I deal with my problems and it’s deep seated from a very young age.

The science of this is that bad foods release certain toxins into your body that leave you feeling elated, a bit like certain illegal drugs. The body craves this feeling time and time again.

I’m glad you haven’t experience the problem of overeating but please don’t dismiss something so readily that you have little or no understanding of.

]]> by: karen http://davidharsanyi.com/blog/2007/07/10/do-you-have-a-food-addiction/#comment-19 Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:45:16 +0000 http://davidharsanyi.com/blog/2007/07/10/do-you-have-a-food-addiction/#comment-19 I recently spent some time on a forum at a site devoted to weight loss (it worked, I lost 20 lbs in about 4 months). There were several people there who posted about their food addiction (as opposed to those of us who just LOVE food), and it's much MUCH more than "needing to eat several times a day or you'll die." See, when you get full, you stop. I bet you rarely go to 6 or 7 different fast food places in one afternoon. I bet that eating a particular kind of food doesn't always trigger a huge binge on it for you, and eating a particular food is probably not the only way you can deal with your problems. It's not an addiction to food in general. It's an addiction to unhealthy and abnormal amounts of specific kinds of food, and it may have a phsysiological basis. Of course, it may not, too. But to dismiss the whole idea on the grounds that we need food to live is just ignorant. I recently spent some time on a forum at a site devoted to weight loss (it worked, I lost 20 lbs in about 4 months). There were several people there who posted about their food addiction (as opposed to those of us who just LOVE food), and it’s much MUCH more than “needing to eat several times a day or you’ll die.”

See, when you get full, you stop. I bet you rarely go to 6 or 7 different fast food places in one afternoon. I bet that eating a particular kind of food doesn’t always trigger a huge binge on it for you, and eating a particular food is probably not the only way you can deal with your problems.

It’s not an addiction to food in general. It’s an addiction to unhealthy and abnormal amounts of specific kinds of food, and it may have a phsysiological basis. Of course, it may not, too. But to dismiss the whole idea on the grounds that we need food to live is just ignorant.

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