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!




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