Category: Food Addiction

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.

It seems that in its simplest form, drive-reduction theory has to do with physiological (bodily) needs. It’s more complicated though.

Displacement behavior is a biobehavioral mechanism that allows an animal to deal with situations that cannot readily be faced, avoided, or thwarted.

Addiction can foster some really twisted thinking, and people who are hooked on eating are no exception. Children are not exempt, either.

Guilt is an arrow; shame is a thick obscuring fog. Guilt is objective and can be disproven; shame is subjective and can only be dispelled.

Guilt as an emotional “first responder” can be beneficial. It can serve as a “note to self” that behavior needs to be corrected.

Shame can trigger a dependency on alcohol or drugs as a method of escape, which is no help when dependency on a substance is the underlying problem.

Many people spend their lives drowning in guilt and shame about something or other, and that is a problem in itself.

Maintaining an addiction will cause a person to give up the activities they used to care about unless purposes can be combined.

We have been talking about the concepts of food addiction and eating addiction, and what a person might contribute to the likelihood of becoming addicted.

Some countries have a fortunate genetic heritage that leaves their feel-good genes unfettered, making them happy countries. Let’s look at the inner workings.