Fat is something I have kept to about 20% or less of my calories each day myself. Now of course there are good fats to eat like Omega Fatty Acids. You can get these fats from flax seed, sesame and sunflower seeds. Also some good fats are in fish. But did you know the fat ...
Category Archives: Biological Factors
Control Food Addiction – Well Maybe!
To control food addiction it helps to be clear on what you are up against biologically. So be sure to read what I have written on biological factors ...just look under categories on the right column and you will find that category. Well, this last week I found more scientific evidence about why those of ...
Food Addicts and Metabolic Syndrome
As a food addict and professional person in the field of recovery, I have been thinking about "metabolic syndrome" lately. You can learn the details of this group of symptoms that some medical people are calling metabolic syndrome from Google Health by clicking here now. Prefer the American Heart Association as the place to ...
Your Food Addiction – Blame Your Parents?
Your food addiction may have a genetic basis as well as a psychological basis. That said we can’t exactly blame your parents in the matter at least totally. In addition, “blame” is a tough word with a negative judgment of the person one is blaming in many cases. For example, the Cambridge Dictionary Online defines ...
Food Addiction Experience = Drug Addict?
The food addiction experience is much like being a cocaine/heroin addict it seems. At least with respect to the addiction symptoms known as “tolerance,” “compulsion” and “loss of control”. Science has found that the more you eat of junk food the more you have to eat to get the same experience of pleasure. This is ...
Food Addiction and Treatment
Food addiction and treatment of it has been a debatable topic among professionals for a couple of decades or so now. Generally, the debate has been between those who were “psychologically” minded in their treatment approach and those who adapted the “addictions model” and ran with that treatment approach. I ran across this article this ...
Dealing With Food Addiction Is Hard?
Dealing with food addiction can be hard that is for sure at least at times. At other times, it can be easy. That said terms like hard and easy are things we make up in our minds. There is no such thing as “is hard” or “is easy” in the abstract. Therefore, we bring “hard” ...
What Causes Food Addiction?
What causes food addiction is not liable to be solved any time soon. With over 400 genes involved biologically, the psychological issues and the social issues as well I think it will take a few hundred years to answer this question. I have written about causes a lot in this blog that is for sure. ...
Overcoming Food Addiction Is It Possible?
Overcoming food addiction is a difficult challenge to say the least. The data on recovery indicates well over 95% of those who try actually fail. Why? Well there are over 400 genes involved in determining whether one is obese or not from a biological perspective anyway. Now there is a new challenge biologically becoming known. ...
Food Addiction – More Genetic Factors
Food Addiction Has Even More Genetic Factors