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Junk Food Addiction

Junk Food Addiction Starts In The Womb, Study Says

Melissa Cronin | Posted 05.07.2013 | Science
Read More: Drug Addiction, Junk Food, Video, Pregnancy Health, Opiates, Junk Food Pregnancy, Addiction, Pregnancy, Food, Obesity, Junk Food Addiction, Pregnant Mothers, Science News

Women know they shouldn't smoke, drink alcohol, or do drugs while they're pregnant. But a new study on rats suggests that even females who eat junk fo...

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Betcha Can't Eat Just One

Daniel J. Schultz | Posted 05.20.2013 | Taste
Read More: Healthy Food, Healthy School Lunches, Food Education, Michael Moss, Junk Food Addiction, Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked US, Junk Food, Food Labels, Junk Food Advertising, Taste News
Daniel J. Schultz

As I read Michael Moss's new book, Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, I saw myself in it. I was one of the kids these companies targeted and successfully sold their products to.

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The Science Behind Junk Food Marketing (VIDEO)

Posted 03.02.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Science, Junk Food Kids, Junk Food, Food, Junk Food Marketing, Junk Food Addiction, Junk Food Ads, Healthy Living News

Everyone has a go-to snack food. Potato chips, cookies, crackers, candy bars ... drooling yet? However, some recent revelations about the industry tha...

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Is a Toxic Relationship the Source of Your Weight Gain?

Will Aguila, M.D. | Posted 04.08.2013 | Home
Read More: Relationships, Dieting, Health, Food, Weight Loss, Obesity, Overeating, Gay Issues, Food Addiction, Weight Gain, Relationships and Health, Wellbeing, Toxic Relationships, Unhealthy Relationships, Junk Food Addiction, Home News
Will Aguila, M.D.

The cycle of overeating and obesity can be broken. Those trapped in it know what it feels like, but putting our heads in the ground and wishing it would go away will not work -- anybody who has lost weight only to gain it all back and then some knows what I mean.

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Why I Quit Junk Food Cold Turkey

Maureen Anderson | Posted 11.13.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Healthy Eating, Food Addiction, Mindful Eating, Healthy Lifestyle, Junk Food Addiction, Diet and Nutrition, No Junk Food, Healthy Diet, Quit Junk Food, Junk Food, Healthy Living News
Maureen Anderson

I might not live longer, but I feel great. That makes passing up the French fries -- and the French toast, drizzled with so much butter and syrup even the new me pauses for a moment of wistful -- so worth it.

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How I Gained (And Lost!) 50% Of My Body Weight ... In One Year

Leslie Goldman | Posted 08.07.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Depression, Exercise, Weight Gain, Keep It Off, Body Image, Paul "PJ" James, Take It Off, Weight, Junk Food Addiction, Fat and Back, Personal Health Stories, Weight Gain Effects, Pj James, Pj James Trainer, Weight Loss, Healthy Living News
Leslie Goldman

Driven by a yearning to empathize with his overweight and obese clients, Australian trainer and underwear model PJ James pledged to pack on 50 percent of his body weight, maintain it and then shed it, all within 2009.

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Who Is Conspiring To Make You Fat?

TruTV.com | David Moye | Posted 11.16.2011 | Weird News
Read More: Conspiracy Theories, Old Navy, High-Calorie, Obesity Epidemic, Low-Fat, Fat Fashion, Obesity, Junk Food Addiction, Fat Conspiracy, Video, Weird News News

Let's face it: nobody around here is getting any thinner. Certainly it cannot be our own faults, right? Seriously, though, obesity is a huge (n...

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Food Addiction: Could It Explain Why 70 Percent Of Americans Are Fat?

Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Mark Hyman, MD

New discoveries in science prove that industrially processed, sugar-, fat- and salt-laden food is biologically addictive.

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