Could chemical food addition be to some extend be dose dependent, and fruit and green vegetable be addicting in the extreme cases?
Fruit seems to set off overeating, or at least drives appetite. Note that chemical addition is separate from the behaviour addiction of compulsive overeating. I suffer from both, but I do have the choice of not eating beyond two or three meals per day.
Showing posts with label food addiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food addiction. Show all posts
Friday, June 15, 2012
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Addiction
Is overeating truly an addiction?
Is there harm in continued use?
Does it control you, or do you control it?
Is there Craving, and high failure rate in quieting?
It is therefore and addiction.
Enter Gabor Mate: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts; close encounters with addiction.
Is there harm in continued use?
Does it control you, or do you control it?
Is there Craving, and high failure rate in quieting?
It is therefore and addiction.
Enter Gabor Mate: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts; close encounters with addiction.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Food addiction
video http://bigthink.com/ideas/23923
One of the key functions of the neurotransmitter dopamine is to create feelings of pleasure that our brains associate with necessary physiological actions like eating and procreating. (gives us motivation to do it again) We are driven to perform these vital functions because our brains are conditioned to expect the dopamine rush that accompanies them.
Addictive drugs flood the brain with dopamine and condition us to expect artificially high levels of the neurotransmitter. Over time, the user's brain requires more dopamine than it can naturally produce, and it becomes dependent on the drug, which never actually satisfies the need it has created.
One of the key functions of the neurotransmitter dopamine is to create feelings of pleasure that our brains associate with necessary physiological actions like eating and procreating. (gives us motivation to do it again) We are driven to perform these vital functions because our brains are conditioned to expect the dopamine rush that accompanies them.
Addictive drugs flood the brain with dopamine and condition us to expect artificially high levels of the neurotransmitter. Over time, the user's brain requires more dopamine than it can naturally produce, and it becomes dependent on the drug, which never actually satisfies the need it has created.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Maladaptive Eating Behaviors
Participants with Binge Eating Disorder (BED) displayed addictive personality scores comparable to individuals addicted to substances (M=17.5, SD=5.3). Addictive personality was associated with Overeating (r=.45, p<.001), Cravings (r=.31, p=.005), Affective Disturbances (r=.62, p<.001) and Social Isolation (r=.53, p<.001).
So I display all four. What does this mean? Am I just a lost case, to severe to treat?
These folk do not offer any solution, just more studying.
When is someone going to offer total psychological makeover? AA, OA, make a start at this. Buddhism makes a non god start. When we combine these two approaches, what would we get?
Saturday, December 3, 2011
How Do We Deal With Compulsive Overfeeders?
This is the season of feasts, that should be followed by fasts, but who does that.
One big question is how do you deal with compulsive over feeders, food pushers, yetties?
Here are a group of possibilities, and thoughts on the subject.
Not thanks. I know it will taste wonderful, but it will mess with my blood sugar.
No thanks. It gets in my mouth.
No thanks, It is poisonous to me. Wonderful tasting poison, but poison.
No thanks, Today I choose not to consume fructose, sugar, grain or omega 6 oils.
Eating with a group of practicing food addicts or compulsive overeaters is dangerous for our welfare. Some days the best thing is just to not go around the practicing overeaters (perhaps family of origin). Remember, many people are into competitive cooking.
We addicts want more, we do not need more. We need to provide only our needs, not our wants. Addiction is biochemical while overeating is behavioral addiction. Either way, once we get separate from our substance or behavior of choice, we should not go back there.
We do not owe duty to our abusers. Anyone who pushes food onto an obese person is an abuser, whether they think so or not. Abuse is doing something that is not good for someone else, regardless of whether they want it or not. Religion or tradition does not make it right. It is still abuse. So providing to much bad food, carbohydrate high food to a child is abuse.
Any comments, ideas?
One big question is how do you deal with compulsive over feeders, food pushers, yetties?
Here are a group of possibilities, and thoughts on the subject.
Not thanks. I know it will taste wonderful, but it will mess with my blood sugar.
No thanks. It gets in my mouth.
No thanks, It is poisonous to me. Wonderful tasting poison, but poison.
No thanks, Today I choose not to consume fructose, sugar, grain or omega 6 oils.
Eating with a group of practicing food addicts or compulsive overeaters is dangerous for our welfare. Some days the best thing is just to not go around the practicing overeaters (perhaps family of origin). Remember, many people are into competitive cooking.
We addicts want more, we do not need more. We need to provide only our needs, not our wants. Addiction is biochemical while overeating is behavioral addiction. Either way, once we get separate from our substance or behavior of choice, we should not go back there.
We do not owe duty to our abusers. Anyone who pushes food onto an obese person is an abuser, whether they think so or not. Abuse is doing something that is not good for someone else, regardless of whether they want it or not. Religion or tradition does not make it right. It is still abuse. So providing to much bad food, carbohydrate high food to a child is abuse.
Any comments, ideas?
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Food Addiction anyone?
Here is a paper on food addiction http://ctheflow.tumblr.com/post/12242459382/that-tasty-taste-the-rise-of-obesity-in-america-why
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