There might be
food addiction involved or several complex reasons why your food intake is more.
Food addiction involves overpowering cravings and changes in your brain chemistry that make it harder to resist eating certain foods.
Food addiction involves being addicted to food in the same way as drug addicts are addicted to drugs (2, 3).
Not exact matches
My rewards
addictions usually
involve book shops and health
food stores... Genevieve @ Gratitude & Greens recently posted... Blueberry And Mango Green Smoothie
It also points out the common mechanisms
involved between drug and
food addiction.
Serge Luquet's team at the «Biologie Fonctionnelle et Adaptative» laboratory (CNRS / Université Paris Diderot) has demonstrated part of the answer: triglycerides, fatty substances from
food, may act in our brains directly on the reward circuit, the same circuit that is
involved in drug
addiction.
«When something hurts, we look for ways of relief, but the mechanisms that we know of relief, unfortunately, oftentimes
involve food addictions or other
addictions.
This
involves multiple
addictions that coexist in the brain and interact with each other such as substances, processes (
food, sex, work, money, exercise), relationships (co-dependency, love
addiction, trauma bonding), and core affect states (shame, despair, rage).