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The author manages to combine neuroscience and humanity in a way that makes it a great read and understandable. It is a great guide for practice for those who care for those with eating disorders. It is also great for someone trying to explore their own relationship with food. Dr. Wilcox's deep dive into the complexities of sugar addiction really hit home. This is an easy read and yet very educational.

Empowering information!

You are not addicted to food, you have an unhealthy relationship with it which is a different thing

It's almost like thinking you are addicted to food is a symptom of an eating disorder

Which are more prevalent in women than in men (although men are likely just underdiagnosed)

Vagus nerve pseudoscience

Like I'm sorry but no study with only 20 participants can provide "irrefutable evidence" and it is actually both dangerous and disingenuous to pretend it can

Mom come get me she's citing her dumbass study that had 20 participants again

Yeah so the reason weight loss is hard is not because people are addicted to food it's because weight has significantly more factors controlling it beyond just what you eat and how much you exercise

Holy shit this "exercise" she wants you to do is genuinely just a really good way to begin developing an eating disorder and unhealthy relationship with food

This entire book does seem to mostly be an ad for her podcast that she uses to convince other people with orthorexia that they too don't have an eating disorder but instead have a "food addiction"

No man you have an eating disorder

Like I'm sorry but if you find yourself saying insane shit like "some experts think gluten is also addictive"? You have an eating disorder.

Her list of "potentially addictive foods" just includes every food that fad diet eating disorder influencers demonize

Girl you have an eating disorder

This lady is a moron

Calling burgers more addictive than steak on the basis that burgers and chopped up and not on the basis that steak costs a small fortune is crazy lmao

YOU WERE NOT ADDICTED TO ANYTHING AND THINKING YOU WERE IS INDICATIVE OF AN EATING DISORDER

Like she's talking about how she made exceptionally healthy versions of foods she likes and then talking about how they were still "problematic" because she wanted to eat them.

She has an eating disorder. She does not have a "food addiction" she has an eating disorder

Hey

Hey author

Hey author you have an eating disorder.

It's called orthorexia and you should look it up