Ultra-processed food ‘addiction’ should be treated like drug abuse, claim doctors

[Pelican Press 0]

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Certain “trigger foods” may be hard for some people to avoid

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Is it possible to be “addicted” to eating unhealthy food? Yes, says a group of doctors and scientists who are going against mainstream medical advice to declare a provocative new way to think about overeating.

The idea isn’t entirely new, as a few researchers have been arguing for years that some people overeat so much that their relationship with food should be seen as an addiction. But because it seems different to other kinds of addictions, such as when people are dependent on alcohol or take…

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