If the displacement mechanism accounts for overeating, then targeting this mechanism in treatment should facilitate significant reductions in overeating.

Sure, eating can reduce stress in the short term, but ultimately it creates situations that produce more stress, with all kinds of negative consequences.

Is every use of the displacement mechanism a fake cure? Not if it saves the person from destruction, and helps them not to bring destruction to others.

Pursuing a passion can look an awful lot like an addiction, and can certainly have the same negative effects on a practical level.

As previously suggested, some might have a problem with defining displacement behavior as out of context.

Addictive behavior makes no sense to anyone, either the person who does it, or the others who are affected.

Traditionally, displacement activity is defined as normal behavior that happens out of context and is irrepressible. But who gets to decide that?

Sensory-specific satiety became a guiding principle for the processed-food industry. The biggest hits owe their success to complex formulas for the taste buds.

Fat does not seem to have a hedonic breakpoint, so combining it with sugar promotes overeating very effectively.

Any overeaten food represents a mixture of the sensory and behavioral addiction components. The combination comprises eating addiction.

The trouble is, a very large segment of society has devolved into a bunch of chronic mouth-amusers.

Here’s a painful paradox: In general, worldwide, overweight and obesity have increased right along with undernutrition.

Here are some additional excerpts from and observations about Kathryn Phelan’s memoir of a 165-pound teen who wanted to be on the basketball team.

What is a fussy eater? Are the gut bugs telling the child to consume what they prefer and to reject what they don’t want?

Babies arrive with an innate love of sweetness, which generally does not fade with age, but all too often grows more extreme.

When it comes to addiction to food, or addiction to the act of eating, in many cases taste has a lot to do with it.

Is there a basic drive for serenity? There must be, because so many people look for it in addictions. But serenity can be found in a lot of other places.

The concept of displacement can work either way; it can also be a power for good. This is one of the reasons some people find fly fishing so helpful.

Why are the premises of and the results obtained by Reeling in Serenity so phenomenal? Read on.

Healing comes from spending time among healthy people, and some are guided to Reeling in Serenity by their recovery mentor or sponsor.

Reeling in Recovery is a new national non-profit organization based in Georgia that helps recovering substance abusers by teaching them how to fish.

This continues the discussion of the thorny question of consent, where bariatric surgery is concerned.

In the debates over the January news from the American Academy of Pediatrics, some serious points of contention exist.

When it comes to BMI and measuring obesity, weight is just one factor, and needs to be regarded in the context of total health.

The childhood obesity world is still feeling the repercussions of how the American Academy of Pediatrics greeted the new year by releasing new guidelines.

BMI was never intended to be used as a measurement for health. Weight can be a helpful data point, but it needs to be evaluated in the context of overall health.

Body Mass Index has been a bone of contention in many debates as some health experts don’t consider it a reliable measurement of obesity.

It’s a lot better to treat the underlying cause of a problem than to treat the symptoms. One reason is that treating the symptoms is just not practical.

When it comes to childhood obesity, Dr. Pretlow is by no means alone in preferring prevention over cure. Let’s hear from some of them.

Whether a patient is obese or has an eating disorder or both, it’s all part of the same problem that does not appear to be handled very effectively at present.