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Why are we eating so much more than we used to?
Honestly, have you ever asked yourself why we tend to eat more and more over the years?
Like what are we trying to feed our hunger, or our obssesion?
As we all participate in the American obesity epidemic, almost everyone is heavier today than their counterparts of 40 years earlier. Why?
In one sense, the answer is easy: We are heavier because we are eating more.
Meanwhile experts and scientist are testing the theory "Eat less to live longer". Is it possible to live a good deal longer by eating a good deal less? Proponents of a strict dietary regimen called calorie restriction (CR) claim that it can extend your life and prevent diseases associated with aging. The diet consists of eating a very low-calorie but nutritionally balanced diet that meets 100% of vitamin, mineral, protein and essential fat needs. But can such a lifestyle, which means a dramatic change in eating habits for most Americans, be the "fountain of youth" its followers claim?
Whenever you approve this theory or not, the facts are that the choices we have made over the last decades are not doing us any good.
So why are we eating many more calories than we used to?
Some experts say we are eating more because we are so addicted to fat and sugar that we cannot stop ourselves from eating too much when our foods our laced with these tempting, tasty ingredients.To better understand why we are eating more today, we need to consider how our brains control our desire for food.
But what happens if we do not take control, and continue to feed our desires?Ingestion of different nutrients, such as fats and sugars, normally produces different effects on physiology, the brain, and behavior. When these nutrients are consumed in the form of binges, this can release excessive DA, which causes compensatory changes that are comparable to the effects of drugs of abuse.
But what happens if we do not take control, and continue to feed our desires?
Ingestion of different nutrients, such as fats and sugars, normally produces different effects on physiology, the brain, and behavior. When these nutrients are consumed in the form of binges, this can release excessive DA, which causes compensatory changes that are comparable to the effects of drugs of abuse.
Although binge-eating behavior is traditionally associated with eating disorders, it is becoming more prevalent in the United States through its emergence in a variety of clinical and nonclinical populations. Binge eating has been linked to obesity, which presently afflicts 33% of the adult U.S. population and may also be a predictor of body-fat gain among children. Binge eating is also associated with increased frequency of body weight fluctuation, depression, anxiety, and substance abuse. The presence of bingeing behavior in several different eating disorders, as well as in nonclinical populations, has made it important to study from a public-health perspective.
Now lets go back again and ask the same question,
What are we trying to feed?
I see this phenomen as a behavior problem more than an eating disorder, even though one affects the other. People refuse to take control over their actions and attribute the failure to external causes.But even though we like so much to excusse ourselfeves, this is not preventing the harm that we are causing to our body that in most cases ends in irreparable damages. Keep in mind that you are not going to see the consequences of your actions immediately, but it will take only six months to change your body functions and to weakens your immune system.