The Disease of Processed Food Addiction: Treating the Cause, Not the Symptoms…A Perspective
Abstract
Trying to control what one ingests, is analogous to trying to control an alcoholics drinking which is absurd if that person suffers from the disease of alcoholism. History reiterates time and again many and varied approaches in treating the symptoms of alcoholism by trying to control ones drinking of liquor including; religious approaches, psychiatric treatments, drug substitution, harm reduction strategies, psychoanalytical practices, to name but a few (Raymond, Lovell, & Hsueh-Chih Lai, 2020). For those cases who suffered from the physical allergy and a mental obsession associated with alcoholism, the result was always nil. This is similar in today’s society for processed food addiction. For centuries society has also been trying to find the next ‘cure’ or ‘quick fix’. There is no cure for the disease of addiction –– it can only be treated (like other chronic diseases).
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The Most Subtle Disease of Addiction – Peínamania: Processed Food Addiction.
Abstract
This commentary regarding the disease of processed food addiction – peínamania continues to bring light to processed food being an actual substance-based addiction analogous to alcoholism and drug addiction (Raymond, et al., 2020; Raymond, 2021). Being a legal substance, processed food can be ingested from the day a person is born. In fact, that is not entirely true. How many mothers ‘eat for ingesting more processed food throughout their pregnancy with an underlining self-justification of now having an excuse, or ‘gives them permission’ to eat what they want because they’re pregnant and eating for two’ (Al-Ateeq & Al-Rusaiess, 2015). Of course this dodges the ‘overweight/fat/obese remarks and it can become a ‘food-fest’.
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Peínamania: Processed Food Addiction — ‘Disease VS. Redemption’ A Processed Food Addict’s Plight
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The processed food addict is treated for the disease of processed food addiction, NOT for being a ‘weak-willed glutton’. Individuals who are or who know someone with the predisposition to processed food addiction will identify here, and no doubt apply their own spin on this – not being a worthy human being, not being of value, full of shame, blame and guilt – because of their inability to control their weight, a symptom of the disease of peínamania.
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