| Most of us love to eat. Let's face it, some foods | | | | studies don't lie. In controlled tests of two groups, |
| taste really good and we all have our favorites. But | | | | one group eating natural and healthy foods and the |
| most of us know when to stop, especially when we | | | | other group eating processed foods, the processed |
| feel a little full. Certainly those of us who want to fit | | | | foods group showed more compulsive eating |
| into that skimpy bikini come summer don't want to | | | | behavior than the natural foods group by a wide |
| put on too many pounds. Unfortunately, there are | | | | margin. Food manufacturers claim these studies prove |
| those of us who don't have that kind of control. Yes, | | | | nothing.In the meantime, compulsive eaters are eating |
| food can be addictive and for reasons that you | | | | more and more, getting heavier and heavier and |
| never imagined.Compulsive eating has been a problem | | | | sicker and sicker.But what exactly happens with a |
| since the beginning of time. But the real problems | | | | compulsive eater?Every compulsive eater is slightly |
| didn't begin until the processed food era, though at | | | | different, but in general they simply can't stop eating |
| the time nobody really understood what was | | | | no matter how full they get. Many will have sweets |
| happening to us.Food manufacturers are not stupid. | | | | and snacks all over the house. When sitting watching |
| They are in the business of making money. The only | | | | TV they'll snack on chips. While talking on the phone |
| way to do that is to make foods that taste good. | | | | they could go through a whole bag of Oreo cookies. |
| But having a good tasting food is not enough if you | | | | Even driving in the car they have to bring something |
| want sales to go through the roof. It has been | | | | with them to chew on. When going to a movie, they |
| proven in studies that the additives in many foods | | | | have to make sure they buy enough snacks at the |
| are indeed addictive. Caffeine in coffee and tea is a | | | | concession stand to last throughout the whole movie. |
| prime example of this. But coffee and tea are | | | | More or less, these people eat constantly and can't |
| common and well known foods for their addictive | | | | stop themselves.Fortunately, food addiction is |
| properties. What most people don't know is that | | | | recognized and there are support groups. Also, |
| many processed foods like TV dinners, cakes, | | | | medical science has developed hunger suppressant |
| cookies, pies and a host of other items are made | | | | drugs that do help, though the underlying problem is |
| with certain chemical additives that have been proven | | | | not hunger but psychological.Food addiction is serious |
| to be addictive. That malomar fix that you have to | | | | and potentially life threatening, but there is hope for |
| have is not because of some marijuana induced high. | | | | sufferers. Many simply need encouragement, support |
| It is because of the ingredients in the malomar | | | | and to find another purpose in their lives other than |
| itself.Of course food manufacturers will deny this, but | | | | to simply stuff themselves. |