High fat foods leads to food addiction

[limewave]

The more I've been paying attention to my diet the more I realize that I am very much addicted to certain foods. You know the saying "betchya can't just eat one!"

My triggers tend to be any highly processed food. If I have a Dorito, I end up eating half the bag. Ice cream. Pizza (from Delivery).

Those are foods I just have to stay away from altogether.

This study isn't very surprising to me, but it does affirm what I've noticed in myself. And that just makes me want to avoid those foods even more.

[zoom-zoom]

The more I've been paying attention to my diet the more I realize that I am very much addicted to certain foods. You know the saying "betchya can't just eat one!"

My triggers tend to be any highly processed food. If I have a Dorito, I end up eating half the bag. Ice cream. Pizza (from Delivery).

Those are foods I just have to stay away from altogether.

This study isn't very surprising to me, but it does affirm what I've noticed in myself. And that just makes me want to avoid those foods even more.

This is how I am, too. Though my triggers are almost always the carby, crappy, overly-processed garbage (I can eat a box of Cheeze-It crackers and then move on to the sugar-laden granola bars) and rarely whole foods, whether high in fat or otherwise.

[Tri Girl]

not surprising to me either. I've recently become an all organic eater (as much as humanly possible) and I've totally cut out EVERY BIT of high fructose corn syrup and aspartame (do you know how hard that is to cut that out- that stuff is in EVERYTHING ).
And you know what? I don't have crazy sugar cravings like I used to. I still have some organic cupcakes every now and then, and have some organic, naturally sweetened sweets, but I don't have NEARLY the cravings I used to before, and when I eat it I am satisfied with one or two bites. My tastes have changed. I find those "food like substances" that I used to eat before kinda unappealing now (but mostly I think it's because I know what's in it and it ooogs me out).
Interesting...


p.s; confession time: I'm no angel. I DID have a banana split last week. First one in many months, but I wanted it and it tasted dang good. I still like my crap sometimes, just not as much as before.

[GLC1968]

I think that article is 100% misleading. The rats became addicted to highly processed foods full of fat AND sugar and 100% completely devoid of fiber, vitamins and minerals.

If you can show me how rats got fat eating only say pemmican or avocados, then you might convince me that the fat was the culprit.

As most everyone here has mentioned, it's the highly processed foods that we can't stop eating. And there is a reason for that - they've been created for just that purpose! McDonalds or Coca Cola or Kelloggs or Sara Lee WANT you to get addicted to their food. They remove the healthy stuff to make it more shelf stable and lo and behold - now humans can eat more of it and even better...they start to crave it! Wow - jackpot! Lets keep this up...what else can we process the crap out of in order to sell more and more and more???

It's disgusting. Admittedly, I'm a victim every time I respond to a desire for Cadbury's Mini Eggs (which are the work of the devil, I swear!) Me and those rats...we are both doomed.

[KnottedYet]

poor little rats were actually starving, they were eating nutrient-deficient foods and their bodies were desperately trying every available option (including the brain reward system) to try to pull in some nutrients. "In the wild" high-fat and high-sugar foods are nutrient-rich, which is why just about every critter out there craves them.


Never mind food addiction, though. I'm quite concerned about my oxygen addiction. I keep trying to swear off the stuff, but the more dirty car exhaust I inhale, the more I crave oxygen! I can be taking in great lungfuls of car exhaust 20 times a minute, but I *still* feel the craving to breathe! I'm breathing and breathing and breathing, more than I usually do, but I still yearn for more breaths!
(oxygen = nutrients, car exhaust = nutrient poor food substances)

[nscrbug]

OMG! That picture of the bacon burger in that article just about made me hurl!!! The bacon doesn't even look fully cooked...ewwwwwwwwww!!!! I was craving something sweet and sugary just now...but looking at the pic, actually made me lose my appetite.

[shootingstar]

OMG! That picture of the bacon burger in that article just about made me hurl!!! The bacon doesn't even look fully cooked...ewwwwwwwwww!!!! I was craving something sweet and sugary just now...but looking at the pic, actually made me lose my appetite.

Admittedly I prefer proscuitto, but even much of that is not good since it tends to be quite salty.

What is appalling is a trend by some chefs to combine bacon with other gourmet cooking recipes. (I realize that it is used to give flavour to some traditional dishes at the beginning of cooking process.)

But even too much of healthy food can not be a great thing: for instance, I can absent-mindedly munch through several slices of artisanal bread within a few hrs., bread that has no fat, eggs, sugar nor hardly any salt. I really have to watch myself at times.

The breadmaking thread elsewhere in TE forums, is some evidence of enjoying some 'fruits' of labour.