Category: Food Addiction

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.

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.

What is intuitive eating? Dietitians and book authors Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole are proponents of “intuitive eating,” and here are some details.

The American Academy of Pediatrics urges avoidance of shaming and asks for sensitive and non-stigmatizing language to be used, but not everyone agrees.

Something about this season brings the serious problem of childhood obesity into special awareness.

Here’s another post with cogent reminders about the importance of mental health during the winter holidays, especially if a person is dealing with issues.

To persist in harmful behavior even when it ruins one’s closest relationships is the behavior of an addict. Paul Mason’s life reflects this.

We trace the journey of the (previously) world’s fattest man from England to the USA and back to his homeland, and look at the roots of his food addiction.

We continue discussing the life story of Paul Mason, the formerly The World’s Fattest Man.

More on Paul Mason, the former world’s fattest man, and his struggle with addition.

We continue detailing the successes and challenges of Paul Mason’s life, the former world’s fattest man.

We continue highlighting the life and successes of Paul Mason, who used to weight almost 1,000 pounds and had managed to shed most of it.

Paul Mason, born a subject of the British queen, has lived one of the saddest obesity stories of all time, and also one of the most frustrating.

One of the ways BrainWeighve works is by combining the powers of a Dread List with a set of corresponding Action Plans.

It is quite likely that a person’s overeating problems stem from mental frustration with situations that seem insoluble. Learn how this app can help.

BrainWeighve is a new phone app in its final stages of development by Dr. Pretlow and his team. Today, we discuss some of the basic ideas behind it.

The tricky thing about displacement behavior is that it can look just like normal behavior, except that the activity was determined not proper.

Here are more details about Dr. Pretlow’s World Obesity Federation Conference presentation, including a discussion on the definition of addiction.

This is a continuation of comments related to the presentation Dr. Pretlow gave at the World Obesity Federation Conference in 2019.

This continues a look at Dr. Pretlow’s presentation about addiction and displacement theory, touching on the Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors.

Take a look at Dr. Pretlow’s presentation at a 2019 conference on the concepts of food addiction and eating addiction as they relate to displacement theory.

In their study, Drs. Prelow and Glasner have shown that a smartphone application can short-circuit the displacement mechanism when used during peak stress.