Testing had made it clear that tirzepatide might turn out to be the most spectacularly effective weight-loss drug ever, but what are the downsides?

The latest new anti-obesity wonder drug, tirzepatide, is raising hopes everywhere on behalf of morbidly obese individuals (except those with type 1 diabetes).

Fried foods are crunchy and chewy and also involve a lot of hand-to-mouth motion, providing high displacement activity value for people with anxiety.

Eating is ideally positioned as the go-to displacement mechanism because food is everywhere, it’s a common behavior and is part of many interactions.

In addition to dealing with the sources of the displacement, it also is possible to replace the displacement with another displacement that is less destructive.

It’s possible that a child who overeats can be induced to try some of life’s other satisfying activities, like the ones Dr. Pretlow’s team has suggested.

The good news is that you can control your displacement mechanism, and your overeating will stop.

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.