Category: Food Addiction

To what extent should an individual be permitted to follow the dictates of her or his own will?

Whatever else might be thought or said about her, one thing certain: Oprah Gail Winfrey has never experienced a shortage of the energy we know as willpower.

“Being you” can mean a lot of different things, but perhaps one of the things it does not mean is a lack of willpower. The idea is worth exploring.

Expressed over the years by many, the words of wisdom are: You cannot eat a lot, or the wrong things, or a lot of the wrong things, and possess a slim figure.

Here’s another installment of our series about Oprah’s struggles with eating addiction and how she overcame them in time.

We continue recalling some of Oprah Winfrey’s Firsts, Mosts, Onlies, and other remarkable achievements, and this is by no means a complete list.

Oprah Winfrey has been talking to the public about her weight, and the endless conflict caused by trying to keep it under control, for decades.

Oprah learned how easy it is to bury problems under a ton of food. She always honest about her journey and has helped others shed the weight over the years.

Sometimes another substance can fill the same function as a natural chemical, in which case it is called a Receptor Agonist.

Notable instances of self-imposed malnutrition are anorexia, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder (BED). Let’s hear from some people struggling with BED.

A shocking number of average folk want — nay, demand — to know which famous people are using the trendy GLP-1 drugs, for how long, and why, or why not.

The vagus nerve connects the brain to the heart, lungs, digestive tract, and several other entities. Why is it so important?

Here’s an overview of the current treatment options for Binge Eating Disorder, including a perspective on which approaches are likely to be most effective.

Many holidays share common traits, such as being the occasion of much overconsumption of not only food but other substances.

Binge Eating Disorder sufferers tend to have very little insight into what drives them, or how to bring their self-sabotage to an end.

Dr. Meule warns about making unwarranted assumptions about certain eating disorders and their relation to classically-framed addiction.

The rise of GLP-1 medications is reshaping consumer habits and posing challenges to various sectors of the food and beverage industry.

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?