Addiction to food? Is it real?

Addiction can be defined as a chosen activity that has negative consequences on the physical and mental health of an individual and which is engaged in persistently, despite a full awareness of the negative consequences.

If you are a food addict, then you are choosing to eat food ingredients that you know have a detrimental effect on your physical and emotional well being. In full knowledge of that fact, you go on eating them.

In fact, you feel a craving to eat them. You feel unable to stop eating them once you start. You know that to give them up completely and forever would be impossible for you. In fact , you will probably go on eating them until the day you die.

In fact, your life is being shortened by your addiction to certain foods. You are eating to die. All addiction is slow suicide, and so is addiction to food.

Is this true for you? Then let's start eating to live!