Food Addiction – Are You Addicted To The Foods You Eat?
How does food addiction work? Let’s imagine that for 24 hours, you eat only natural foods like meat, fish, vegetables and fruit. No foods that are baked, including bread and nothing that is packaged, canned, wrapped, or boxed. While you do that, examine your feelings, notice your discomfort and your urge for some particular type of food. Your brain becomes alarmed and tries to force you to succumb and eat a bag of crisps, a chunk of bread, anything that’ll stop the cravings. Those are the sign of addiction - not any addiction, but food addiction.
So what are the recognizable symptoms of Food Addiction? We observe symptoms like cravings, withdrawals and binge eating. The soft Processed, Refined Carbohydrates, That didn’t exist 50 years, become the go to foods because they make us feel good. What we’re unaware of is that they also make us fat are often used as comfort food. We keep wanting more, the ideal response to any addiction. They feed the addiction as effectively as ...