Conspiracy Confirmation? Food Addiction is Actually Real?

Tue Apr 05, 2011 9:34 pm » by **Epicfailure**

I remember an example used as to how "sugar" can be used as a catalyst for little children, and how to brain also responds to sugar...

the example was something like:

tell your kid to do something, and see if the child does it - maybe they will, but if they don't;

offer the child a sugar treat for their service and see if they do it - Chances are they will....

is this a reward or is this something to do with the sugar process on the receptors in the brain?

well sugar is like Crack, and it does effect your brain and it treats sugars like a drug...

so:

Conspiracy Theorist - 1

Mainstream Science - 0

that or if you are one of those conspiracy-conspiracy people, this is all probably just a ploy to implement Codex Alimentarius or something :lol:

If food addiction exists, blame the brain -- not the cookies

Researchers explore food addiction in a new study.

By Marissa Cevallos, HealthKey

April 5, 2011, 9:02 a.m.

To the food lovers who can't deny themselves an extra cookie (or 10): The problem may begin in your brain, where, scientists say, chemical surges affect your response to food, much in the way an addict responds to alcohol or drugs.

The possibility of food addiction has existed for some time. A new Yale study gives it a boost. In that research, scientists watched the brain activity of women tantalized, and then rewarded, with a chocolate milkshake. Their neural activity was similar to that of drug addicts, scientists said, as brain imaging showed activity surging in regions that govern cravings and falling off in those centers that curb urges.

High-fat and high-sugar foods tend to trigger the strongest reward responses in the brain, said the researchers, a feature that once would have helped our species survive. In America today, we don’t have as much of a problem finding high-calorie food.

Here, essentially, is what occurs in the brain of a drug abuser. Most abused drugs work by flooding the brain’s circuits with the feel-good chemical dopamine. The feeling is pleasurable, so the body wants to get the high again. But abused drugs overload the brain’s circuits, sometimes with two to 10 times as much dopamine as is derived from natural feel-good activities such as eating and sex. The brain adjusts to the overwhelming amount of dopamine, so the user needs more of the drug to achieve the same result.

Whether the desire for sugar-filled candy is truly similar to the craving to snort another white powder is uncertain. There’s evidence that rats can be addicted to sugar, demonstrating binge eating, withdrawal and craving. To a lesser extent, animals may binge on fatty foods too. That makes sense to anyone who has struggled to put the lid back on a Pringles can. But some psychologists argue that those results don’t apply to humans, and the evidence isn’t strong enough to say for sure that sugar addiction, or any other food addiction, plays a role in obesity and eating disorders.

Further, psychologists themselves are unsure how to think about overeating and, in particular, binge eating. Psychologists have been divided on whether binge eating should be its own psychiatric disorder in the profession's’s diagnostic manual or included with anorexia and bulimia as an eating disorder. By a 2007 estimate, 2% of men and 3.5% of women experience symptoms of binge eating in their lifetimes.

Whether overeating is truly an addiction, some sufferers treat it as such. Overeaters Anonymous is modeled after the 12 steps in groups like Alcoholics Anonymous to help members recover from compulsive eating. Members are urged to eliminate foods that give them cravings, often processed foods with refined sugar.

If food is truly an addiction, that could open the door for interventions that work for drug addicts, such as medicine and behavioral changes. But overeating can often be a warning sign of overwhelming stress and larger emotional problems, and simply blaming it on the brain’s love of dopamine may be masking other problems. Trying to cope with a job loss, stress at work or relationship troubles can all trigger overeating.

Tue Apr 05, 2011 9:39 pm » by **Bandanko**

this an excuse for all the fat fucks out there??

Tue Apr 05, 2011 9:40 pm » by **Jeckk**

I'm totally clueless when it comes to food. Either I'm some kind of genetic alien, everyone's biology is VERY different, or everything we've learned about food is a lie. For about 7 years now I've been experimenting with food. The past 4 years now I've pretty much eaten nothing but fast food, twice a day, with lots and lots of soda. I've not gained any weight, my health is perfect according to my physician, and my mental/emotional states are in better shape than anyone I know. When first transitioning to this lifestyle I had hunger pains and fatigue, but after a few weeks of that it went away. After all was said and done, I'm still totally clueless as to how the human body utilizes food.

P.S. I <3 Sugar

Tue Apr 05, 2011 9:54 pm » by **X-mog**

I for one hate sugar. That evil shit should be illegal. I'll take a diet pop over a sugary one any day. However, There are reports that any pre-made food could be contaminated, sometimes laced with substances which are designed to keep us coming back. MSG is well known one. It is at this point where I would like to ask a difficult task of the electrical engineers out there. Can someone make a portable toxicology laboratory. Something that performs an "on the fly analysis of all chemical compounds within food, blood, water, etc. If mankind gains this ability, then nobody has to worry about radioactive iodine in their tea any longer. Don't tell me it's impossible. Start with one of those sugar testing devices; you know... like a 1 touch diabetes thing, then incorporate hardware which contains information about toxins and you done. I love myself...so much that I'm providing great Ideas that could easily make billions but I care more about the common mans plight than getting rich. If this thing gets invented, then retailed for thousands I'm gonna be sorry.

Tue Apr 05, 2011 9:57 pm » by **Epicfailure**

jeckk wrote:I'm totally clueless when it comes to food. Either I'm some kind of genetic alien, everyone's biology is VERY different, or everything we've learned about food is a lie. For about 7 years now I've been experimenting with food. The past 4 years now I've pretty much eaten nothing but fast food, twice a day, with lots and lots of soda. I've not gained any weight, my health is perfect according to my physician, and my mental/emotional states are in better shape than anyone I know. When first transitioning to this lifestyle I had hunger pains and fatigue, but after a few weeks of that it went away. After all was said and done, I'm still totally clueless as to how the human body utilizes food.

P.S. I <3 Sugar

I am the same way, but one thing is for sure I do feel a little fatigued if I do not get sugar the next day, or maybe a small headache.....

but recently I have been exercising alot and keeping up with my martial arts so I have been trying to eat better...

but I fucking LOVE CHOCOLATE and can't fall asleep without putting myself into a chocolate coma before bed......

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!

P.S. alot of sugar and bad diet may lead to diabetes later in life, which is part of the reason I am trying to stay somewhat (not all the time) healthy...

one thing is for sure though, all that rotten food tastes so good, partially because it was designed that way (not conspiratorially)

Tue Apr 05, 2011 10:00 pm » by **Epicfailure**

truthseeker2k11 wrote:I for one hate sugar. That evil shit should be illegal. I'll take a diet pop over a sugary one any day. However, There are reports that any pre-made food could be contaminated, sometimes laced with substances which are designed to keep us coming back. MSG is well known one. It is at this point where I would like to ask a difficult task of the electrical engineers out there. Can someone make a portable toxicology laboratory. Something that performs an "on the fly analysis of all chemical compounds within food, blood, water, etc. If mankind gains this ability, then nobody has to worry about radioactive iodine in their tea any longer. Don't tell me it's impossible. Start with one of those sugar testing devices; you know... like a 1 touch diabetes thing, then incorporate hardware which contains information about toxins and you done. I love myself...so much that I'm providing great Ideas that could easily make billions but I care more about the common mans plight than getting rich. If this thing gets invented, then retailed for thousands I'm gonna be sorry.

thanks for your comments, I am not sure if I agree, considering sugar cane grows naturally and people really should be left with the choice to eat as they want.

However I am a believer that you should have to have some type of labeling describing all the details of the ingredients and the calorie and diet information on ALL foods should be present.....

but as far as outlawing foods because of how they make your body afterwards, I think that steps the boundaries of the right to chose, and takes away from our freedom of choice.

but if they could make a squash taste as good as a piece of chicken I would eat it.

Tue Apr 05, 2011 10:02 pm » by **domdabears**

hell yeah food can be an addiction.
anything can be addicting.
its all about your will power towards that particular addiction.

Tue Apr 05, 2011 10:36 pm » by **Jeckk**

epicfailure wrote:
jeckk wrote:I'm totally clueless when it comes to food. Either I'm some kind of genetic alien, everyone's biology is VERY different, or everything we've learned about food is a lie. For about 7 years now I've been experimenting with food. The past 4 years now I've pretty much eaten nothing but fast food, twice a day, with lots and lots of soda. I've not gained any weight, my health is perfect according to my physician, and my mental/emotional states are in better shape than anyone I know. When first transitioning to this lifestyle I had hunger pains and fatigue, but after a few weeks of that it went away. After all was said and done, I'm still totally clueless as to how the human body utilizes food.

P.S. I <3 Sugar

I am the same way, but one thing is for sure I do feel a little fatigued if I do not get sugar the next day, or maybe a small headache.....

but recently I have been exercising alot and keeping up with my martial arts so I have been trying to eat better...

but I fucking LOVE CHOCOLATE and can't fall asleep without putting myself into a chocolate coma before bed......

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!

P.S. alot of sugar and bad diet may lead to diabetes later in life, which is part of the reason I am trying to stay somewhat (not all the time) healthy...

one thing is for sure though, all that rotten food tastes so good, partially because it was designed that way (not conspiratorially)

Yeah my gf is constantly barking at me about the way I eat because she worries about diabetes. I guess it's possible, but my father's side of the family grew up eating twinkies for breakfast (no joke). They all eat MASSIVE amounts of pastries, sugar, everything ALL DAY LONG! For some strange reason, none of them have ever gotten diabetes (they're now entering their 60's).

So it'd really hard to say. I mean when you have cases like mine and my families where the results are SO contrary to what I've believed my entire life, what am I to really believe now? Maybe we're just very resistant to diabetes, but can still develop it? No idea, but I feel great, I enjoy every meal I eat, and until there's even a trace of something wrong I'm not stopping.

Just some food for thought. Food was something I was SURE I knew all about, and turned out I was completely wrong.