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Originally Posted by V
Is obesity now considered a disease like alcoholism now? Honest question, they've been put on a parallel plane in this thread a couple of times.
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For some people most definitively. Its complex because you can't quit food, but brain scans certainly show addictive responses to certain foods for certain people, its never the same but commonalities exist. In face the food industry has for a long time known what is the ideal mix of sugar, carbs, fats, and salt to make those triggers light up, which for most people is not a problem but a significant portion of people this is hugely problematic.
Unlike AA which you can just quit, which is no small task, food is something you have to live with. Overeaters Anonymous shares a lot of similarities to AA, and I think its a better approach than yo yo dieting, at least they try to deal with the emotional side of this problem which is honestly for a great majority the biggest obstacle.
But make no mistake, such as porn addiction is now a real thing, the commonalities are whats happening in your brain, the reward centers and how your body responds to stimuli. Cocaine and sugar for example share the same responses, so do many types of food, and lets not forget much of our food supply is engineered a very specific way to sell more product, the drug dealers of the modern age are our food industry which seeks to make food hyper stimulating and create a craving to eat their food again, great business sense, horrible outcomes.
What is really sad is we've been so dead wrong about what to eat for so long, Kiefer a astro physicist bodybuilder has been on the leading edge of new science suggesting our approach to diet has been so dead wrong for so long that its going to take a decade or more to undue that damage.