Category: Food Addiction

Kids with addicted parents can react to gaslighting by “stuffing” their feelings or expressing their chronic anxiety through displacement behaviors.

Anne Lamott, who writes both fiction and nonfiction, has accrued what Steve O’Keefe characterizes as “quite a following among the addiction recovery audience.” Her sense of humor can readily be described as dark. Case in point: Someone who’d spent $30, …

Is food addiction a substance addiction, a behavioral addiction, or a combination of both? And why is there resistance to accepting the idea of food addiction?

Most medical professionals see stress eating and comfort eating as the same phenomenon, and both are included under emotional eating.

“Does Comfort Eating Work?” is a question that is asked seriously by bona fide residents of Academia.

Is it possible that the reward inherent in stress/comfort eating has nothing to do with the ingredients and everything to do with a connection made in the mind?

For many professionals in the field, comfort/stress eating lives under the larger umbrella of “emotional eating.”

Opinions vary wildly on whether eliminating wheat from your diet is necessary and would curb obesity.

Given all we know about gluten’s effect on those affected by the celiac disease, how likely is it that gluten is harmless to everybody else?

Ivana Trump wants to “make America svelte again” while the government plans plans budget cuts for nutrition programs for children.

In Dr. Pretlow’s W8Loss2Go program, withdrawal from a problem food is meant to culminate in abstinence. Otherwise, it isn’t really withdrawal, is it?

Because many diseases have revealed themselves to be multi-factorial, it is never a good idea to vilify one particular food group.

Sue Becker of The Bread Beckers Inc. reviews Dr. William Davis’ book “Wheat Belly,” but much of her criticism seems to stem from anecdotal evidence.

Wheat is viewed as a problem food, a cause of unhealthy weight gain, and possibly even addictive by some. Bright Line Eating is not against wheat but all flour.

We’re trying to solve a puzzle that arose from looking into a program called Bright Line Eating, created by Susan Peirce Thompson. But first, her story.

Childhood Obesity News is looking at the ideas of medical professionals working with patients who find it nearly impossible to quit wheat and/or gluten.

Overweight and obese children and teens are more likely to self-harm, engage in emotional or binge eating, and to develop eating disorders.

According to its detractors, the film reinforces stereotypes and does not accurately portray the loneliness and isolation felt by anorexics in real life.

“To the Bone” was excoriated as being tone-deaf, a missed opportunity, devoid of true insight, and right next door to “pro-ana porn.”

Wheat is one of the eight most prevalent allergens, and as we have seen, allergens and addictors are often the same foods.

If wheat is not an addictor, why do so many people testify to their own experience of being addicted to it?

We continue our discussion of the roundup of our holiday posts and how the holiday season can affect the issues related to obesity.

What better time could there be for a collection of posts germane to the seasonal holidays, with a few remarks about each one?

Despite widespread official disapproval, millions of people believe that food addiction is a “thing” and treat their eating disorders as an addiction.

In order for doubters to believe in the existence of food addiction, whose testimony would satisfy the requirements?

Why is there a shortage of professionals who are willing to support the idea of employing addiction treatment methods on obesity?

Strangely, many people’s anecdotal accounts of weight loss include a remark to the effect that they would not have made the effort, if not for fat-shaming.

Is food addiction a substance addiction? A behavioral addiction? If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck — chances are, it is a duck.

Today we return to the concept of food addiction, which some critics have recently complained has no utility.

What is blockchain, and can it potentially help break the cycle of food addiction and positively impact retail business practices?