Re: Re: Fixated on one food?

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Katcha wrote:

> I think Latoya made a great comment about how the 'addictive'

> substances ALTER one's body feedback, while food doesn't. However I

> think we also have come to believe that food(s) have 'addictive'

> qualities so perhaps then give up any attempt to 'fight' these?

They actually have " addictive qualities " in the way that they alter

brain chemistry, i. e. neurotransmitters. Just like the substances we

don't tend to see really as drugs[1], e. g. caffeine or related

substances.

I think we're back to black-and-white-thinking again when discussing the

subject if a certain food is a drug or not. One holds the opinion " yes " ,

another says " no " and some change their opinion from one side to the

other.

I like the theory (but that is only reflecting my opinion) that certain

foods AND the process of eating alone and especially the COMBINATION of

both really DOES alter brain chemistry, i. e. release of

neurotransmitters like dopamine and there seems to be actual evidence of

that.

I don't think we're " powerless " [2] because there seems also to be

evidence that THOUGHTS alone can alter brain chemistry as well which

would (or at least could) mean that we might not be doomed to be hooked

to food/eating forever to boost our neurotransmitters but that we have

some power to change our addiction to the process of eating.

Regards

s.

[1] maybe because so many people are consuming these without ending like

someone who we'd consider " a drug addict "

[2] how I hate this OA principle. Who likes to be powerless after all?