Pt1 - Releasing the Habits That Imprison Your Spirit
Tara Brach
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The Role of Food in Addiction
In recent decades food industries hired scientists to engineer food with the exact ratios that set up this reward circuitry in the brain. High density ratio of sugar and fat gives us an unusually strong and thereby addictive reward for high density ratio ofugar and fat so high reward causes addiction, says David Perry. Hedonic hunger is not related to what our body really needs but it's the way the brain's been designed to guide us so again it's totally appropriate for times of scarcity where there's not much calorie rich food.
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