Obesity And The Brain : How Convincing

In “Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food” by Michael Moss is about the rising numbers of obesity in both adults and children throughout the United States. On the Evening of April 8, 1999, some of the biggest food industries CEO’s ad company presidents come together for a rare, private meeting. Discussing the emerging obesity epidemic and how they should deal with it. Big time companies food is lacking the nutrients that a person needs and is more concentrated on how to make it more desired. Keeping the customers coming for more. While the industries are gaining a profit, the customers are gaining a big belly.

Research shows that sugar has a major effect on dopamine production and is addictive. Sugar also affects other brain chemicals like serotonin and acetylcholine. Sugar is a very simple compound that has very powerful effects on the brain. Sugar addiction is proven and it is similar to alcoholism and drug addiction. Sugar diminishes the effectiveness of dopamine receptors over time and this causes you to eat more and more to get that same satisfying feeling. Sugar can even be appealing while you are full and withdrawal symptoms of sugar parallel with drug withdrawal. Sugar can affect the hippocampus negatively and many diseases are associated with excessive sugar intake. This research should show the dangers of excess sugar intake considering how much sugar is in the food people eat daily. Having addictions at an

Obesity within adults is a prevalent problem in the United States, with over 51% of all adults suffering from obesity by the year 2030 (Joyner et al. 217). Obesity, or the state of being excessively overweight, is sometimes a result from what is known as food addiction. Much like an addiction to a substance, to be addicted to food is to constantly crave a certain food item (Joyner et al. 217). Obesity and food addiction tend to coincide with each other. That coexistence is shown primarily in the documentary Super Size Me, in which director Morgan Spurlock focuses on the way fast food and food addiction affect the human body.

Environment factors, including sedentary lifestyles, high energy intake and social aspects enhance the risk for obesity. A recently published evaluation of the Framingham Study provides an interesting alternative explanation for the worldwide increase in the prevalence of obesity, by demonstrating that the chance of a person to become obese is significantly higher when a friend, sibling or spouse are obese (Christakis and Fowler, 2007). Thus the social net work could be a relevant factor in the obesity epidemic.

According to “The Food Addiction,” overeating is the same as a drug addiction because as we increase our consumption rate we are increasing our desire to have more. The more we have the more we want because it is readily avaible for us. On the other, “The Food Addiction,” states that modern foods have an overwhelming affect to our biological feedback networks. This is because it disrupts our hormone regulation, such as hormones that control our appetite and weigh

We like everything in an instant. Individuals like fast cars, fast communication, and most of all we love fast food. Having things in life come in an instant seems great but there is a price to pay. Therefore, fast food may be convenient but it is costly. Although, fast food may save you time now, it will cost you years of your life later. Most foods that are quick and convenient are full of refined sugars, carbohydrates and other processed food. Sadly, these attributes of convenient food causes many of us to overeat. Dr. Lustig referred to individuals who eat a lot as “gourmands.” Sadly, there are a number of things that happen when we consume sugars, carbohydrate and fats. First, due to overeating an individual may have higher levels of leptin. Leptin is a protein produced by fatty tissue and believed to regulate fat storage in the body. According to Stephan Guyenet, when we become leptin resistance when our brain does not know when we are full therefore we overeat. Leptin resistance comes from a high consumption of sugar. Dr. Lustig suggest that sugar in the presence of insulin creates fat. I believe that obesity is direct effect of another underlying issue. Correspondingly, we all know the effects sugar has on our bodies, but yet we continue to consume it in high quantities. In my opinion, sugar is a drug and many people have an addiction to it. Sugars sends the same signals and high levels of dopamine to brain just as drugs. For example, I have an uncle who weighs about 900 pounds. He was not always this big, so what happened? As a child, he ate a lot of sugary foods and food that contains a lot of fat. Not only did my uncle eat unhealthy, but he was not very active. Therefore, there was a combination of factors that contributed to his massive weight gain. Obviously, his body started to become leptin resistant at some point. If you become leptin resistance and have an addiction to sugar then you

History suggests that overeating is a choice, an addition similar to smoking cigarettes caused by lack of will power, boredom or simple gluttony. With new research, society is beginning to learn there is more behind obesity than just a choice or addition. For instance, a

The theory helps to explain the reason individuals are addicted to eating unhealthy foods. Positive behaviors occurs to people when they see processed food this is because it has meaning to them. The theory helps to explain the reason as to why people get addicted to eating unhealthy foods. People behave positively when they see processed foods because it has meaning to them. The meaning develops from testing sample then they become addictive because of developed

The purpose of this essay is to examine the article " The Fat-Brain Axis Enters a New Dimension," by Joel Elmquist and Jeffery Flier. This essay will attempt to explain this article and summarize its key points.

Eating disorders have similar attributes to addictions and impulse control disorders as they have the two components of cravings and compulsivity. Eating disorders display the attribute of cravings when it comes to the craving to obtain food or even purge food. Compulsivity is also seen when people compulsively eat until they feel sick. These attributes are easy to see within the diagnoses of binge eating. Binge eating involves eating an abnormally large amount of food in a small amount of time. This can be a craving for those with the disorder and they find themselves compulsively eating until they are awfully full. The attributes of cravings and compulsivity are also seen within other addictions and impulse control disorders as they

Obesity basically means having too much body fat. Not being overweight for your height, having too much muscle, or water in your body. What exactly is obesity? “Obesity is a condition that is associated with having an excess of body fat, defined by genetic and environmental factors that are difficult to control when dieting. Obesity is classified as having a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 or greater. BMI is a tool used to measure obesity. Obesity increases your risk of developing related conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and sleep apnea, to name a few. Many individuals are affected by obesity and are not aware of it” (O.A.C, 2016). Causes of obesity vary from person to person, but most are from the same reasons. Taking in more calories than your body can burn leads to obesity because your body stores the unused calories as fat. Typical causes are eating too much food than your body can use, drinking too much alcohol, and not getting enough exercise. Many obese people who lose large amounts of weight and gain it back think it is their fault. They blame themselves for not having the willpower to keep the weight off. Many people regain more weight than they lost. Today, we know that biology is a big reason why some people cannot keep the weight off. Some people who live in the same place and eat the same foods become obese, while others do not. Our bodies have a complex system to help keep our

The process of becoming obese will affect and change the brain chemistry of the brain and people could be born with predisposition in becoming obese. We all consume food and take pleasure in eating them, especially sugar, however eating excess of them cause changes. Our brain is triggered in producing dopamine when consuming sugar, dopamine is a neurotransmitter that brings pleasure feeling, and our brain associates it as a reward, becoming a habit (Rabin, 2015). As people consume more and becoming obese, the higher association of pleasure feeling from dopamine when eating creates a behavior pattern of overeating, which would be very difficult to break (Harmon, 2010). This is changing the brains chemistry by creating a neurochemical dependency

Within article 1, paragraph 3 describes how the ancient New Guineans made sugar a part of their religion because they liked it so much. Still during our century we also like to praise sugary drinks and foods, we make ads promoting each other to drink or eat them and everyday we buy a great amount of the sugary foods. Inside article 1 paragraph 4, gives an explanation of how sugar is addicting, the more we eat or drink it the more we want it, in fact our brain scans reveal that eating sugar affects the same parts of the brain as addictive drugs. Having sugary foods as an addiction can be bad for our health, we humans need a healthy amount of food each day, but having a huge amount of sugary contents everyday could possibly kill us, our body absorbs the sugar in liquids more quickly than the sugar in solid food, for example when you chug down a bottle of soda it goes straight down to your liver which turns into fat which can build up in your

The everyday routines of life can and will be more difficult if encumbered with obesity.

Advertisement and commercial industries portray table sugar, and other artificial sweeteners as fuel needed by the body. Though body and body cells need sugar as fuel source. The body mechanism is just like the case of engine, there are bad fuels which can destroy engine. Table sugar is just a bad fuel for the body. Several research studies have arraigned sugar first culprit for the epidemics of complicated health problems such as diabetes, obesity, heart disease and cancer. Worst of it, several research now ranking sugar as addictive substance as drugs.