Category: Food Addiction

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.

In the course of exorcising personal demons, a terribly difficult and challenging writing experience became a personal case study and a philosophy textbook.

People have all kinds of reasons to pursue weight loss, but then they might discover they have been sold a life-long chemical dependency.

In a large number of cases the new weight-loss medications only work while the person is taking them.

Here is more about the same weight-loss drugs, the ones based on synthetic GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1), that have been referenced in several recent posts.

With weight-loss drugs, the rebound effect is to be expected, and no one should be shocked by the body’s tendency to pile the weight back on again.

The “rebound effect” is brutal. Here are only a few of the many available opinions about that, from diverse sources.

While taking obesity management drugs it is essential to maintain a high level of exercise to not only lose fat but build muscle mass.

Weight-loss drugs are intended to be used along with deliberate diet modification and perpetual exercise, but not everyone wants to hear it.

People might tend to think that if the FDA approves something, then it must be okay. As an antidote to that delusion consider this.

The avoidance of side effects might depend on a person’s shunning of entire categories of food while using tirzepatide.

The semaglutide drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, intended to treat Type 2 diabetes and obesity, respectively, are a risky bet for pregnant people.

In addition to the possibility of hypoglycemia, this drug has been known to cause hair loss, which sounds bad.

The possible side effects of tirzepatide, currently marketed only as Mounjaro, range from embarrassing (like burping) to quite serious.

Soon it might be legal to prescribe Mounjaro (the only medication that contains tirzepatide) to obese young teens.

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.