No one argues that food isn’t pleasurable, or even that food doesn’t activate the “reward center” of the brain. Not surprisingly, the food industry has largely dismissed the notion. Many scientists eschew the diagnosis while others embrace it. Yet the psychiatric and the scientific communities have been slow to get on the bandwagon. None other than Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse, has spoken out in favor of the diagnosis. There’s been a lot of heat about food addiction, but little light. But even if you ate the box over several sittings, you might still suffer from its more controversial cousin-Food Addiction, not yet included in the DSM-V. Now that the holidays have come and gone, it’s time to look in the mirror and ask ourselves, “Did I really need to eat the whole box of chocolates?” If you did it in one sitting, you may suffer from Binge Eating Disorder, a newly-sanctioned psychiatric diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-V by the American Psychiatric Association.
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