Food Addiction

Craving an Ice-Cream Fix

The notion that food can be addictive has been debated for some time and largely rejected by both nutrition and addiction researchers. But this spring, the secretary of health, Kathleen Sebelius, said that for some, obesity is “an addiction like smoking.”

Food Addiction Is Real and We Need To Talk About It

Only by calling food addiction by its proper name can we begin to speak frankly about how to help one another recover. Until then, food addicts like me will continue to struggle to control that which cannot be controlled.

Is Food Addiction Real?

As the obesity crisis continues to spread around the world, nutrition scientists keep looking for answers why millions of people eat more than they should. One possible explanation, some have suggested, is food addiction, an inability to stop eating, even when it makes us sick.

Quiz: Are You Addicted to Food?

Are you a food addict? Several studies now suggest that food and drug addictions have much in common, particularly in the way that both disrupt the parts of the brain involved in pleasure and self-control. While the scientific community continues to debate whether food addiction is real, researchers at Yale have devised a Food Addiction Scale to determine if a person shows signs of addictive behavior toward food.

Sugar Season. It’s Everywhere, and Addictive

Sugar is addictive. And we don’t mean addictive in that way that people talk about delicious foods. We mean addictive, literally, in the same way as drugs. And the food industry is doing everything it can to keep us hooked.

The Sugar-Addiction Taboo

When can you call a food addictive?

Why Oreos Are As Addictive As Cocaine To Your Brain

“Our research supports the theory that high-fat/high-sugar foods stimulate the brain in the same way that drugs do,” Schroeder said. “It may explain why some people can’t resist these foods despite the fact that they know they are bad for them.”

Why Your Brain Makes It So Hard To Stop Eating

If you’re a compulsive eater or are living with a different kind of addiction, there are certainly treatments that can work in the present, though they may be a little (or a lot) tougher than having your brain zapped.

Food Addiction vs. Eating Addiction: Why A Single Word Makes All The Difference

Is food addiction real, and should food industries be held accountable for engineering hyper-palatable sugar-salt-fat bombs that override feelings of fullness? Or is it more accurate to describe overeating as an eating addiction — a disordered relationship to all foods that can and should be brought to heel by the individual?

5 Crucial Steps to Beating Food Addictions

By far the most common challenge for keeping up a healthy diet is giving up food addictions. If you could break free from your cravings, healthy habits would take over and your new lifestyle would become a breeze. Wouldn't that be nice?

FoodAddicts.org

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous is an international fellowship of people who have experienced difficulties in life as a result of our relationship to food and eating.