What is the cure for food addiction?!
Question:
What is the cure for food addiction?
What are the cure? is there any medicine or patch like the one they use for cigarette smoking addiction like nicotine patch?
Answers:
Food addiction is most normally triggered by a psychological need, so you probably want to discover in the particular addict, what psychological need the food is fulfilling.
Food is often a replacement for love and attention, worthiness. Eating certain foods can release endorphines which produce a temporary emotional high, therefore overeating can often be caused by depression and addiction to that emotional high.
As far as I know, food is not a physical addiction like nicotine. It's not "addictive" in the technical sense. Apart from the fact that you need to eat food to survive, of course!