Food Addiction Throughout The World And The United States

Food addiction is a serious underlying problem throughout the world and the United States. Addiction leads to obesity, which is a disease where eating and overeating leads to an out of control weight problem and further developed health conditions. Our brains are being affected by foods in the same way drugs effect our brains. Drugs and food have extremely powerful effects, which are mediated by dopamine increases in the brain reward centers. These abrupt increases in vulnerable people, can override the brain’s homeostasis control mechanisms. Both food or drug addiction can be defined as disorders in which a specific type of reward becomes exaggerated at the expense of other rewards. Drugs of abuse tap into the neuronal mechanism that modulates

The definition of food addiction is ultimately when one is so dependent on one or more of these foods is characterized by symptoms comparable to those in other addictions, leading to loss of control. There is current evidence that some people lose control over their food consumption, suffer from repeated failed attempts to reduce their intake. The question is whether food addiction and obesity is an addiction or whether it is a lifestyle choice. Although neurobiological evidence for food addiction is pressing, dependence as with respect to alcohol and other drugs of abuse is fundamentally a behavior

Some foods can be more addictive than others, especially those containing high fat and sugar. An immensely important feature in any sort of addiction is the loss on control, as pointed out many times before. Too much of something can become addictive. To get in a habit of overeating leads to this addictive behavior and leads the body to wanting more and more beyond control. The neurobiological pathways of drug and “sugar addiction” involve similar neuro receptors, neurotransmitters, and hedonic regions of the brain. There appears to be a cross sensation between sugar addiction and narcotic dependence in some individuals. Schools play a major role in healthy food choices and the prevention of obesity. They can influence what kinds of food and how much of it that children eat, since they spend a majority of their time here. Providing an environment of healthy eating habits implicating nutritional guidelines. Since children think “the sweeter, the better” this can lead them in the wrong direction of food choice. Sweet taste is much more than a signal for calories, the sweet taste can change the emotions in the body. Tasting something sweet or drinking alcohol activates pleasure-generating loci in the brain associated with