Category: Food Addiction

There are aural experiences that some people would do anything to escape, but others willingly listen to sounds that would send a misophone into a straitjacket.

One of the things the coronavirus does is force people to eat highly processed, nutritionally impoverished junk, even when they know better and don’t want to.

The pandemic might have one good effect, namely, reducing the amount of candy eaten around Halloween and thus helping fight childhood obesity.

The ideal diet is said to be the Mediterranean diet, which consists of fish, along with plant-based foods and extra-virgin olive oil.

Your diet is whatever you happen to eat. Instead of “dieting” based on reducing calorie intake, eating healthy might be more effective.

One contributing factor to the obesity epidemic is society’s refusal to acknowledge that fat, sugar, and salt can be as addictive as drugs.

Not all calories are created equal, and other nutrition myths debunked.

A calorie is not just an energy unit, and all calories are not created equal. The evidence continues to pile up.

The fetishization of calories by generations of weight-conscious eaters seems to have brought disaster. Even with the help of fancy technology, people just don’t seem able to keep energy consumption on a leash. There is a happy medium between compulsiv …

What were the authors thinking? It is irresponsible to promote highly pleasurable foods in the midst of a global childhood obesity epidemic.

Pet obesity might serve as an ideal test bed for the treatment and prevention of child obesity, with focus primarily on parental behaviors.

Dr. Pretlow presents “The displacement mechanism: a new explanation and treatment for obesity” at the upcoming European and International Congress on Obesity.

Like humans, pets eat in response to stress, and exhibit eating-related behaviors that look very much like addiction.

Impacted by food shortages and isolation, some people who suffer from eating disorders are adopting new displacement behaviors as vessels for their anxiety.

In the course of struggling with food issues during the pandemic, someone who never before experienced an alcohol or drug problem could develop one.

Displacement activity occurs in many forms, of which eating is one. But what happens when there just isn’t any food?

No two people have quite the same eating disorder. There are a thousand ways to suffer, and a thousand ways to cope — most of them detrimental.

For someone struggling with substance abuse isolation and boredom are very hazardous conditions, and recovery could be a matter of life or death.

It is a truism that a person can tolerate just about anything, if they know how long it will last. With COVID-19, we just don’t know the end point.

When relative isolation is combined with food insecurity or an eating disorder, things can really go haywire.

With the world swamped by a disease whose details are not yet fully understood, the circumstances are tailor-made to foster orthorexia.

When we experience unpleasant emotions, fighting or running away isn’t always possible — but displacement activities, like overeating, are.

As the way we buy food keeps changing along with availability of certain types of food, how will the pandemic ultimately affect the way we eat?

When food is available but the future is unclear binge eating and overeating are the maladaptations to watch out for.

Serious challenges are evident, as people stuck in isolation struggle with a wide variety of troublesome circumstances while dealing with eating disorders.

Unharvested food; food wasted in the broken supply chain; empty supermarket and pantry shelves; long lines of hungry Americans at the food banks, and on and on.

Currently, for many Americans online grocery shopping had become a necessity, but the infrastructure (both digital and physical) simply isn’t there.

For anyone whose go-to stress response is eating, these are particularly bad times, whether eating is a chemical addiction or a behavioral addiction.

Depression and boredom are the archenemies of weight management, and both feature the inability to care.

The rogue displacement mechanism of overeating can be overcome by distractions, but distraction only works if the subject is interested in the distractor.