How to Resolve Food Addiction and End Cravings

As many as 1 in 5 people may suffer from food addiction, a condition that can take only a single exposure to the food to change your brain chemistry and make you crave greater amounts.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Food addiction is defined as an “eating behavior involving the overconsumption of specific foods in an addiction-like manner.” Up to 20% of the general population may have food addiction

• Research has repeatedly demonstrated that food addiction is virtually indistinguishable from the addiction to drugs

• Sugar consumption triggers release of…