Gary Wilson of Your Brain on Porn has a new video available (here’s my post about his original series of videos). I think this is a must watch for anyone interested in food addiction. Given that drives for food and sex are similar from an ancestral perspective, the parallels between internet porn and industrial food [...]
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Sequel to Your Brain on Porn
Posted in Ancestral health, Brain & appetite, Food addiction on April 15, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Quote of the day
Posted in Food addiction, QOTD on April 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
From Stanton Peele on addiction: A sensible person who is asked, “Are gambling, sex, and games addictive?” will answer, “Anything can be addictive, or not, depending on how engrossed people become in them, and how much they are damaged by it.” In other words, it isn’t which activities we focus on and call addictive, it [...]
Quote of the day
Posted in Food addiction, QOTD on April 12, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Geneen Roth: Compulsive eating is only the symptom. The rest of her tweet is a little touchy-feely for my taste. But I like this first part. For me, compulsive eating is a learned coping mechanism. The urge to overeat means that something, whether it is nutrition, physical activity, sleep, and/or stress management, is off balance. [...]
Almost an addict?
Posted in Food addiction on April 6, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Earlier this week, The Atlantic asked Are You Almost Alcoholic? Taking a New Look at an Old Problem. The article explores the usefulness of seeing more of a continuum between being an alcoholic and not being one. The authors write: Under consideration is a paradigm shift in the way we view mental illness, including substance [...]
Quote of the day
Posted in Food addiction, QOTD on March 1, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Here’s a food addiction QoTD two-fer. First, Kurt Harris in a comment over at Free the Animal: I think the big problem with food as an addiction, which I think it can be, is not that addiction is so severe or intense, but that we cannot use total avoidance as a treatment. Starvation is not [...]
Quote of the day
Posted in Food addiction, QOTD on January 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Not that I would recommend that folks look to sitcoms for addiction help, but this intervention of sorts from a recent Suburgatory resonated with me. Take a good hard look at yourself in the mirror. … You’re in a spiral, you’re in a downward spiral. This is an ugly side of you, but you don’t [...]
Your brain on [ porn | food ]
Posted in Brain & appetite, Food addiction on October 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
[Yikes. This post has been in my draft queue since June. I'm going to go ahead and post this as is for now. More TBD!] Via a Matt Stone post, I came across this fascinating video series on internet porn addiction. There are two things that are great about it: first, it’s extremely well produced [...]
All or nothing?
Posted in Food addiction, Weight loss on September 30, 2011 | 5 Comments »
One of the posts in my queue has been my take on the concept of food addiction. This is not that post. But I saw this in my reader yesterday and just wanted to tease up a bit of the subject. Emily Boller writes, re “cheating” vs following diets 100%: It’s much easier and simpler [...]
About willpower
Posted in Food addiction, Weight loss on September 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I’m a Steven Pinker fan, so was happy to read his recent review of the book Willpower for the NY Times. A few highlights (emphasis mine): What is this mysterious thing called self-control? When we fight an urge, it feels like a strenuous effort, as if there were a homunculus in the head that physically [...]
The Sugar Trap – 1986
Posted in Food addiction, Macronutrients on August 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is an amazing series of videos (thanks Tom Naughton’s commenter!). What really boggled my mind was that you could take all of these folks, plop them down 25 years later and all of their concerns re sugar hold up very, very well. [As an aside, I know I'm dating myself, but I totally remember [...]
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