Category: Food Addiction

Learn more about the voluntary demotion of superstar Oprah Winfrey from her almost decade-long seat as a Weight Watchers board member.

There’s a proven correlation between increasing child obesity and the ever-mounting abundance of ultra-processed foods in stores and family kitchens.

One might think the synergy between sporting events and recreational eating could not go back much further, but one would be mistaken.

It is in the best interest of Big Junk Food to normalize the consumption of crap on every possible occasion, and the industry’s publicity machine is excellent.

We have seen that researchers easily obtain from children confessions about how they harass their parents to get their substances of choice.

Manufacturers had built “arsenals of data profiling services” using artificial intelligence and machine learning to advertise junk food to kids.

When we see those fallen victim to compulsive eating, let’s try not to be the negative relatives, or even the slightly less toxic, ostensibly positive ones.

Some experts lean into the idea that some people’s brains just have “different wiring” which is responsible for various brain disorders, including addiction.

Nobody chooses to become an addict, although once that happens, the disease will convince them that the condition was always inevitable.

One of the murkier areas of addiction theory is how it relates to the basic biological drives inherent in an organism. Let’s take a look.

Often, success depends on the person being prepared to jump in there with a positive displacement behavior to take the heat off.

Tirzepatide, a medication combining semaglutide with another GLP-1 agonist, known as Mounjaro, is approved for type 2 diabetes but widely used for weight loss.

Do the new, remarkably effective GLP-1 obesity medications eliminate the need for obesity interventions?

Today’s question is: Do the new, remarkably effective GLP-1 obesity medications eliminate the need for obesity interventions such as BrainWeighve?

Random, reactive displacement behaviors usually only make things worse, while conscious displacement can create a space for positive change.

A perplexing aspect of the displacement mechanism is why it becomes excessive and destructive in some individuals.

It’s possible the destructive displacement behavior may become the sole coping avenue, may be self-reinforcing, and may reach a “point of no return.”

The advantage of an interactive app is that you can hear it from peers who will attest to the fact that this works, and they want you to know it.

Displacing thoughtlessly can lead to undesirable results, ranging from useless to addictive. Displacing consciously can give a person a chance to reset.

If reverting to a displacement behavior can prevent some violence in the animal world, maybe that is all part of the Big Scheme of Things.

Dr. Pretlow has published “A Unified Theory of Addiction,” a paper presenting evidence that the universal source of addiction is the displacement mechanism.

Aside from feeding food obsession and encouraging such disorders as anorexia, electronic socializing can spill over into other potentially problematic areas.

Tarrare was a real historical character who looked like an addict and behaved like an addict — but probably was not.

A lot is being said about the recent success of the new weight loss drugs with stifling food noise. But some aren’t OK with consuming food without the pleasure.

Is food addiction a disease? Is there enough evidence to justify calling it that? If ever there was a multifactorial problem, addiction is it.

Here is more information about the virtual event on food addiction which will take place in August and which Dr. Pretlow is participating in.

Yesterday, we considered the words of some newsworthy figures in the culture who have used controversial weight-control drugs — or not. Here are more.

A spectacular number of celebrities have had their say about Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro. Here are some examples.

Getting back to “Why Not Stay Fat?” — the title is a philosophical question of impossible scope. Why do anything? It is an existential conundrum.

To change one’s habits is, for most humans, an excruciatingly painful effort, and one not undertaken lightly.