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Food addiction: The symptoms and how it affects your health - Cnet
There's some debate as to whether food addiction is real, but mental health pros see it often.
Just one piece of chocolate, you think, after a long day at work. You have good intentions but before you know it, wrappers lie all around and you're left with a tummy ache -- and probably a wave of guilt or self-shame.
Food -- especially palatable food -- has a way of making people temporarily toss their healthy resolutions for the instant gratification of satisfied taste buds. While the occasional chocolate indulgence is no problem, if you often find yourself unable to stop eating certain foods even when you're full, it may indicate a problem.
Food addiction, while not defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders as a psychiatric condition, resembles drug and alcohol addiction in many ways, and many mental health professionals agree that food addiction is a real condition.
There's some debate as to whether food addiction is real, but mental health pros see it often.
Just one piece of chocolate, you think, after a long day at work. You have good intentions but before you know it, wrappers lie all around and you're left with a tummy ache -- and probably a wave of guilt or self-shame.
Food -- especially palatable food -- has a way of making people temporarily toss their healthy resolutions for the instant gratification of satisfied taste buds. While the occasional chocolate indulgence is no problem, if you often find yourself unable to stop eating certain foods even when you're full, it may indicate a problem.
Food addiction, while not defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders as a psychiatric condition, resembles drug and alcohol addiction in many ways, and many mental health professionals agree that food addiction is a real condition.