Do you believe that food addiction is real?

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In your opinion, do you believe that there is such thing as food addiction? By an addiction to food, I mean eating food to suppress how/what a person is feeling rather than dealing with it another way. Another example of a food addiction is a person eating when they're bored, eating an excessive amount, and eating whatever the want with no thought of the calories, sugar, and fat being consumed. Just plain not caring. What do you think?

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I feel the need to eat constantly. Food is my number one love. I feel like when I'm eating my mind is blank, I'm not overthinking or stressing like I would any other moment. All the anxiety goes away. Luckily I have an extremely fast metabolism. I'm 5'1" and weigh maybe 95lb. I usually eat until I feel sick. It's kind of exhausting, and expensive.

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It's just as real as any other addition.

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Yes, I have food addition. I literally cannot tell myself no or to stop and make a smaller portion. Thankfully I have a fast metabolism otherwise I'd be 300 pounds instead of 100.

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Yes. All addictions stem from the fact that dopamine is released in the brain. Basically, when we engage in certain behavior-whether it's eating, smoking, drinking, gambling, drugs, even checking our phones, our brain interprets it as a "reward".

http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc2947358
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3706/3cb620361bb6b0aadc73029eda4170d8a5fe.pdf

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I think this is similar to people who are 'addicted' to marijuana 
It's not the same as a physical addiction like to alcohol or hard drugs buts it can escalate to an  unhealthy dependency. I don't think bored eating really constitutes the label of addiction though. 
I'm open to be proven wrong if anyone knows any more info.

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I think I'm so skinny that I can't relate to this at all... and totally do not believe in food addiction. Overall we could just ask: do you eat to live? Or do you live to eat? 
I personally eat to live.. I enjoy some foods and I like going for dinners out, but overall food is just a need my body has.. and I eat when I get hungry.. wouldn't be able to eat when I'm not hungry

Do you believe that food addiction is real?

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