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“In 1993, mental health counsellor Kay Sheppard published a revised version of her signature work, Food Addiction: The Body Knows. Sheppard drew from her experience working with food addicts and did not mince words. “Food addiction is a chronic, progressive and ultimately fatal disease,” she wrote. “It is chronic because the condition never goes away, progressive because the symptoms always get worse over time, and fatal because those who persist in the disease will die an early death due to its complications.”
― Vera Tarman, Food Junkies: The Truth About Food Addiction

“Stigma often removes the cause of death from obituaries when suicide, overdose, or alcoholism is involved. Addiction is seen as a moral weakness, not a disease, and it is believed that its effects are best covered up.”
― Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

“Games People Play by Eric Berne”
― Joe C., Beyond Belief: Agnostic Musings for 12 Step Life: Finally, a daily reflection book for nonbelievers, freethinkers and everyone!

“There have been calls for nearly a half century to ban the advertising of sugary cereals to children, which Harvard nutrition professor Jean Mayer referred to as “sugar-coated nothings.” 822 In a Senate hearing on nutrition education, he said, “Properly speaking, they ought to be called cereal-flavored candy, rather than sugar-covered cereals.”
― Michael Greger, How Not to Diet