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Can you be addicted to food? With Ashley Gearhardt, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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Can Food Be Addictive?

There's starting to be more and more of a general consensus around whether people can show signs of addiction. But now the debate is about what is the role of the food? And some people have said, you know, it's really not about the food. A. thinks that these highly processed foods are an essential ingredient in being able to trigger this addictive response. If people could binge on cale and bananas or strawberries and watermelon and get the same fix, they would, right? These are people that are desperate to change, and they're unable to.

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