#food addiction

[abolishthefed]

[sausagelover129]

I know that a lot of you have been following my gaining journey the past couple of years. The photos on the left are from when I was around 6 months into my gaining journey. The photos on the right are from now.

[158590]

[gameboybuddha]

Holy shit I'm round. Less than 10 pounds away from entering "fattest I've ever been" territory.

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[allaroundfat]

Fuck they used to fit perfectly… I almost ripped them apart while trying to fit my fat ass inside 🥵

[battleangel]

Jeff Goldblum warning us in Jurassic Park that cloning dinosaurs is raping mother nature was apparently an instruction manual and not a warning.

"Colossal Biosciences, a biotechnology company founded in 2021, is working to genetically resurrect the woolly mammoth by combining its genes with Asian elephant DNA. The company's goal is to create a hybrid species, called a "mammophant", that will look and behave like a woolly mammoth. Colossal plans to use cloning techniques similar to those used to create Dolly the sheep in 1996, inserting genetically edited cells into an elephant egg that would then be gestated by a surrogate elephant. The company has said it intends to complete the project by 2027."

Exploitative KKKapitalism = Eating like 💩 in the neighborhood! "Studies have shown that the prevalence of fast-food restaurants is positively correlated with the percentage of Black residents in urban neighborhoods in the U.S. Similar trends have been found for liquor stores."

$Anything for a Dollar$

"While dollar stores can fill a need in low-income neighborhoods, they are often regarded as predatory businesses that harm communities more than they benefit them, due to very low wages, displacing other grocery options while failing to sell fresh food, store design that increases the rate of armed robberies, and OSHA and FDA violations that put customers and employees at risk."

Who Needs Fresh Food?

"There are no fresh vegetables, fruits, or meats in most dollar stores. And yet, as limited as their offerings are, dollar stores are now feeding more Americans than Whole Foods is, and they’re multiplying rapidly. Since 2011, the number of dollar stores nationwide has climbed from about 20,000 to nearly 30,000. There are now more dollar stores than Walmart and McDonalds locations combined."

Dollar Tree Customers = Permanent Underclass

"In their latest annual reports, Dollar General and Dollar Tree say they have identified thousands of new locations for dollar stores. The two chains are planning to expand their combined empires to more 50,000 outlets."

“Essentially what the dollar stores are betting on in a large way is that we are going to have a permanent underclass in America,” Garrick Brown, a researcher with the commercial real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield, told Bloomberg last year.

“The economy is continuing to create more of our core customer,” Dollar General chief executive Todd Vasos told investors last year.

"More than one-third of American adults, and 48 percent of African American adults, are obese."

13% of the US population is Black, and 48% of Black Americans are obese.

"Look at the pharmaceutical companies. In my neighborhood, there is a fast-food restaurant on every block, from Wendy’s to Kentucky Fried Chicken to Popeye’s to Little Caesar’s Pizza. Now drugstores are popping up on every corner, too. So you have the fast-food restaurants that of course cause the diet-related diseases, and you have the pharmaceutical companies there to fix it."

"If you give people access to really good food and a living-wage job, someone is going to lose money. As long as people are poor and as long as people are sick, there are jobs to be made. Follow the money."

"I talk about power, and how power is a drug and power over people is a drug and it’s hard to give up."

"A substantial body of evidence indicates that diet, toxic metals, food additives, insufficient nutrients, food allergy, lack of exercise can all contribute to criminal behavior. Evidence is mounting that a good diet makes a positive difference when working with some offenders."

"Our estimates imply that the 42% drop in the natural gas price in the late 2000s, mostly driven by the shale gas boom, averted 12,500 deaths per year in the United States."

"Participants (60.55%) experienced unexpected or increased medical expenses (17.69%), job loss (13.64%), pay reduction (11.85%), and death of a family member (9.09%). Pay reduction and increased debt were associated with moderate hunger; death of a family member, pay reduction, and increased debt were associated with severe hunger."

Lung Cancer to Avoid Severe Hunger

"In unadjusted models, annual household income <$15,000, non-urban residence, lack of health insurance, unstable housing, heavier food pantry reliance, fair or poor adult health, adult anxiety, and adult smoking to reduce hunger pangs were all positively associated with VLFS-C."

Fast Food = Fast Death

"Survey respondents had 8 ± 7 fast-food outlets within 2 miles of their home. Individuals living in close proximity to fast-food restaurants had higher BMIs, and lower fruit and vegetable consumption."

Happy Meal = Psychiatric Distress & Violence

"Consumption of fast food has been linked to psychiatric distress, violent behaviors, and impulsivity in adolescents."

"The analysis found that liquor stores are disproportionately located in predominantly black neighborhoods, even after controlling for census tract socioeconomic status."

"At equal levels of poverty, Black neighborhoods had the fewest supermarkets."

[sausagelover129]

A hungry pig in its natural state 🐷🤤

[158590]

[usastudio]

[gameboybuddha]

Took down a Giant Jimmy John's sandwich for lunch, and it left me feeling like a beached whale. I might be stuck on the couch for a while.

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[3liza]

this article is dumb in a lot of ways because SciAm is a pop science outlet and food addiction research is still mired in stupid and incorrect science about obesity etc. so im not endorsing this article. i' only posting it because one of the scientists interviewed keeps saying that people who feel they are addicted to certain foods (or eat compulsively or have binge eating disorder, they dont address the differences or similarities in the article) "don't get high" from food "the same way" one can get high from drugs.

one of the opposing scientists points out correctly that nicotine also does not get you "high" in the sense of impaired life functions, she doesnt say so but i will say that nicotine is used by many many of its addicts as a performance-enhancing drug and not just to avoid withdrawals. and yet nicotine is extremely high on the addictiveness scale. caffeine is physically addictive and causes withdrawals when discontinued, it also doesnt get you "high"in the way she means.

secondly, i'm from a family of disordered eaters of all kinds, i dont think a single person i know who is related by blood to me has a normal relationship to food, and i have spent a lot of time speaking to and reading subjective descriptions of compulsive eating and food addiction, as well as observing it occur in my family, and absofuckinglutely it causes similar or identical feelings to many different kinds of drugs. theres a person in my Problem Glyphs inbox whose problem is a compulsive eating disorder that is fixated specifically on pizza, which they describe as being the only thing that medicates them effectively against stress and trauma. this is really common with super high-reward foods and drinks even if they dont contain psychoactive substances

so i dont know what the anti-food-adiction-defiition scientist thinks shes talking about. i dont think shes ever actually spoken to a person with disordered eating in her entire life.

as an aside, this is also how a lot of the most severe anorexics describe their processes of avoiding food, and this has long been accepted as an addiction process at least partially, because it satisfies the psychological compulsion, but we know 100% that fasting and even starving often triggers endogenous opioids and absolutely causes altered states of consciousness. this is described subjectively by ED patients as well as observed anthropologically, its part of the process of achieving peak experiences, flow states and trance states in every human culture in the world, but so is feasting on high-calorie foods with a lot of sugar and fat in them. monkey brain loves calories, thats why we're so good at finding and making food and surviving famine.

so idk i think sometimes those really annoying My Experiences Are Universal bitches end up going into behavioral sciences and fucking things up

[tobeabatman]

Everything you need to know about ”food addiction”

Tw: Mentions of BED and h*roin (by name).

Whether food addiction or sugar addiction are actual addictions on par to e.g drug addiction, is still debated.

Some researchers don’t think of food addiction is an actual addiction.

However, someone can experience compulsive eating.

Someone can also experience binge eating disorder, or BED (which is different from compulsive eating).

The term ”food addiction” is often incorrectly used to refer to the next three:

~ Fat people naturally needing more food as our bodies and energy consumption are bigger.

~ People who have BED (especially fat people).

~ People who eat compulsively.

The idea of food addiction is usually exclusively used in conversations around fat people’s eating habits. Our society associates the idea of addiction with bad self-control, and often views addicted people as morally inferior. Comparing fat people’s eating habits to an addiction is a way to further stigmatize fat people, by comparing us to addicts (who are socially looked down upon).

Comparing us to addicts also prevents people with compulsive eating and people with BED from reaching for help, as addictions are often seen as an individual’s responsibility to recover from.

Years ago I incorrectly labeled my BED as sugar addiction, and went on years without realizing that my disordered eating wasn’t just because I lacked self-control to stop eating sugar.

(The idea of a sugar addiction is often also used to demonize sugar. People associate sugar with heroin based on brain activity, and then go on to make crazy conclusions about how sugar is as addicting as heroin. I’m no scientist, but I feel like a lot of things can light up whatever brain part the activity happens in.)

[sausagelover129]

All I crave is more soft lard.

[foodroplets-drop]

Can you go wrong with Costco Pizza? 🍕

I’ve been craving Cheese pizza for ages! I don’t eat pizza often but meng, I’m currently suffering from a severe cold (I just got back from a trip) and I had to order one, I just had to 🥹

As you can see, I am a very classic person. I only need Cheese/Pepperoni and Costco pizza works well for me. (I some times like Pineapples on mine tho 🤫)

My original plan was to eat Pizza & Beer after I get back from this trip. I need to do Pizza again but this time with Beer once I fully recover from this stinky cold 🤧