You may overindulge on chips,chocolate and burgers once in a while,but would you consider yourself to be a food addict? The answer is important because it could be the key to determining what course of action you need to take to lose weight...
Why are many people attracted to food?Why can't they control themselves?Why as a nation or a person do we overeat excessively ?...Well basically food is comfort....Comfort food can be defined as food that brings some form of comfort,sense of wellbeing or easy satisfaction.For me personally I believe this to be true because I have experienced this myself,sometimes it happens when we don't feel good or bad things happen to us,so in order to overcome we find food and bask in the satisfaction and comfort of it,its like a friend.
A number of medical experts or doctors look on this very strongly and say that food addiction is just as serious as nicotine or cocaine addiction-and can potentially kill in the long run...and as more people turn to food for comfort and get obese is the more strain on the NHS to provide health resources and services to many people out there,so that's why there are many ads on healthy eating and exercises to prevent these pandemics happening..In my own opinion,Sometimes I think that a certain sector of the population are forced into eating Junk foods because there is not much healthy foods available and affordable to them,we need to take into consideration those who are on a low budget and making ends meet and don't have the facilities or transport around them to reach certain places,so they just make do with what they have...I'm not making any excuse for them.
However I do disagree with people who are super morbidly obese and people are still feeding them,rather then helping them,or sometimes those who got obese was helped along the way to reach the weight they are today,A link to a story about a 19yr old teenager who weighs half a ton,was helped by his mum to get as big as he his today:
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/bodyshock/episode-guide/series-16/episode-1
During rough times or hardship in our lives we seek to ground ourselves and find that sense of self that often gets lost when life becomes hectic and crazy,I believe that selection and choice of comfort food is a very personal thing,like some of my favourities are chips,choclate,fried chickn,we all have a choice
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2690244/70-stone-Briton-Paul-Mason-is-worlds-heaviest-man.html - A link to the heaviest man in britian....Transport problem....70st Paul enjoys a trip sitting in his special 3ft wide wheelchair.
Food for thought...What Foods are in your cupboards,Fridge and Tempting you from your Counter-tops???
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