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Food, Addiction and Obesity: Why We Are All at Risk
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Food, Addiction and Obesity: Why We Are All at Risk
Posted: 06/23/2014 5:15 pm EDT
Updated: 06/23/2014 5:59 pm EDT
Nicole Avena, Ph.D.
Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicole-avena-phd/
food-addiction_b_5520434.html
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In their new documentary Fed Up, Katie Couric and Laurie David draw
attention to the important issues surrounding the food we are eating and
why it is making us so sick. With estimates that approximately 75 percent
of Americans will be overweight or obese by 2020, no one needs persuading
that obesity is a grave public health threat. However, for some people,
considerable convincing is still required surrounding one likely cause of
this rampant obesity: food addiction.
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In our research laboratories, we have been actively studying the
connections among food and addiction. The idea of food addiction has
gained more credibility over the past few years with the emergence of
scientific studies, including our own, showing that certain foods and
beverages, or even images of certain foods, can elicit changes in the
brain that resemble those seen in drug addicts. There is certainly enough
evidence to take the possibility of food addiction seriously, and now is
the time that we should be taking action to clearly address this problem.
Tens of millions of lives will have been affected by the time evidence is
indisputable, millions more than have already been affected who have
little or no assistance to combat their addiction. The idea that some
foods may be addictive, or that some people may be "food addicts," has
changed how we may begin to think about the obesity epidemic, but it also
poses questions regarding whom this may affect.
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Addicts are often conceptualized as being unable to function in society,
and the idea of someone being addicted to highly-palatable foods seems
laughable in comparison. Yet these stereotypes about addiction do not
match reality. The most common addict in our society -- a smoker -- is
likely a fully functioning, law-abiding individual with a job, family, and
friends. A smoker's addiction is manageable because this drug is easily
accessible with little noticeable intoxication, and a withdrawal syndrome
that is not physically life-threatening (as it can be with heroin or even
alcohol). However, because of smoking's health-related complications, it
is the No. 1 cause of preventable death in the U.S. The reality is that
nicotine addiction kills you over time.
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Addiction to highly-palatable, processed foods may resemble nicotine
addiction.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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