Food For Thought
The Big Picture
The Cost of Food
Symptoms
Side-Dish
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True or False: Drugs such as heroin work differently in the brain as high sugar foods.
Brain imagining (PET scans) shows that high-sugar and high-fat foods work just like heroin, opium, or morphine in the brain.
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What percentage of diets do not succeed?
95% of diets fail and most will regain their lost weight in 1-5 years.
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True or False: On T.V., there are more than 400,000 commercials for food.
True. 74% of the commercials are for sugary cereals and candies.
100
What is overeating?
Eating a lot of food in short periods of time. Overeating is a classic symptom of food addiction.
100
Food addiction puts others at high risks for what health issues?
Obesity, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Colon Cancer, Bladder Cancer, Stomach Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer
200
True or False: People with food addictions do not go through withdrawal.
False. Many people undergo a "healing crisis" that has many of the same symptoms as withdrawal when removing certain foods from their diet.
200
What percent of American adults are obese?
30% of adults are obese.
200
Approximately how much do people in the United States spend on obesity?
Approximately $117 Billion. This is used for sick days and medical expenses.
200
True or False: People need support to lose weight.
True. Anyone who is sick and fat wants to lose weight, but without help few are capable of making the dietary changes that would lead to this outcome.
200
What is food addiction?
Food addiction is when someone is preoccupied with food to an unhealthy point.
300
True or False: Tolerance for food is increased when people have food addictions.
True. Those with food addiction have to keep eating more and more just to feel "normal" or not experience withdrawal.
300
How many adults are considered "overweight"
2/3 of adults in America fall under the "overweight" category.
300
When do people with food addictions stop eating?
Typically people with food addictions continue to eat until they are "stuffed" and cannot eat anymore.
300
What are some signs someone has food addiction?
Secretive eating, Feeling guilty after eating, frequent hunger.
300
What is the difference between food addiction and other addictions?
Unlike addictions to drugs and other substances, addicts cannot quit eating food. It is a necessity of life.
400
How many deaths were caused by diabetes?
246,000 deaths
400
By the end of the 2015, how many people are predicted to be considered overweight?
By the end of 2015, approximately 2.3 billion adults will be overweight.
400
True or False: People with food addictions do not need to make excuses to eat.
False: People with food addictions make up excuses to eat. They have no control over their actions when they are hungry.
400
True or False: People with food addictions often eat more than they are intended to.
True. People with food addictions are notorious to say how much they are going to eat, but end up eating more.
400
What percentage of food addicts are considered obese?
50% of food addicts are registered as obese.
500
How many people in the United States claim they have food addictions?
There are +70 million food-addicted adults in the United States.
500
Are people with this addiction only addicted to food?
No, this addiction includes drinks like sodas, juices, and coffee.
500
How many deaths are attributed with adulthood obesity?
Around 400,000 deaths per year are attributed with adulthood obesity.
500
True or False: Health problems related to food addiction only happen in the United States.
False: In the United Kingdom, there are over 3 million adults diagnosed with diabetes.
500
What percentage of food addicts are overweight?
30% of food addicts are overweight, and 20% of food addicts are considered "healthy weight"
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