02/06/2026
Food addiction isn't real.
Are you kidding me?
Tell that to the person who cannot stop at one biscuit.
Who eats the whole packet and hates themselves for it.
Who has been told for decades that they just lack willpower.
Willpower plays a part, but it doesn't last. And it's certainly not the cause.
Ultra processed food and refined carbohydrates are specifically engineered to keep you eating.
The combination of fat, sugar and salt hits the same reward pathways in the brain as other addictive substances. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is food science.
Most people have absolutely no idea how addicted they are until they try to change their diet.
Then the cravings kick in.
The headaches, irritability.
The obsessive thinking about food is real.
Mood crashes 🙈
That is withdrawal.
And the cruel irony is that the dietary advice we have been given for fifty years, low fat, high carb, eat little and often, snack to keep your blood sugar stable, keeps you on exactly the cycle that drives it.
Food as medicine starts with understanding what the food is actually doing to your body.
Diets high in carbohydrates drive food addiction in many people.
You just have to stop eating them for a few weeks to find out and feel those moments where you could almost bite someone's hand off if it was holding a donut 🍩
