Sun, Jan-23-22, 06:20
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Plan: P:E/DDF
Stats: 225/150/169
BF:45%/28%/25%
Progress: 134%
Location: NC
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Research has yet to prove that food addiction exists, though the pull of processed foods, the fat + carb combo triggers addiction-like behavior. Marty Kendall's long analysis of the topic, using Ted Naiman's Trifecta charts and Cain Foley's "Don’t eat for Winter" is covered in this article:
How to beat food addiction by understanding your brain chemistry
https://optimisingnutrition.com/are...ood/#more-20384
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While food addiction is a commonly used term, it is still not widely accepted in the research literature. Whether we can be addicted to something that we need to survive is arguable.
The bottom line though is that our biology is optimised for an environment of scarcity. But it’s as if we have been airlifted into a world of energy toxicity that has only been made possible by modern hacks (e.g. synthetic fertilisers, artificial colours and flavourings and food processing).
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The problem with thinking of food as addictive is that we can become disempowered. Food becomes “bad” and something to be avoided, something to feel guilty about rather than celebrated and enjoyed to nourish us and enable us to live our best life. Food addiction constitutes a medicalisation of common eating behaviours, taking on the properties of disease. The use of this medical language has implications for the way in which society views overeating and obesity. (Findlayson, Food addiction and obesity: unnecessary medicalisation of hedonic overeating, Nature Reviews Endocrinology, May 2017) If we medicalise our behaviour, we are more likely to adopt a victim mentality and take less responsibility for our choices. While people feel they are addicted to sugar, the research doesn’t tend to support sugar as being addictive.
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