Food Addiction: Craving the Truth About Food | Andrew Becker | TEDxUWGreenBay

Most annoying is listening to a skinny person who has never suffered with any kind of addiction.

Sometimes it's not about self control issues, it's about trauma

Does anybody else feel like they cannot reduce the amount of these foods? Much like an alcoholic I cannot do moderation. I can abstain pretty comfortably after the initial withdrawal but as soon as I think “I’ll just give myself a treat” I end up binging. I literally CANNOT do moderation. At all.

Can anyone drop his insta/ linkedIn profile???

Quit 12 april 2026 RIP FOR MY FOOD ADDICTION forever
FI AMANILLAAAH🕋🤲.

I am totally addicted to food. I have to eat every day to stay alivr.

Food addiction is not only related to processed food or sugary food. I'm addicted to fresh home made food like vegetables, cheese, eggs, bread, legumes and rice. I eat in small amounts but all day long. If I were kidnapped and locked away with very little food for a few weeks, I'll suffer craving for the healthy food more than worrying about the kidnapping I feel. Ozempic seems to be the only solution.

Stress always makes me hungry. When i am calm i don't need that much food. Cortisol makwa you think you're in fight or flight mode and you need more energy when it's mental not physical 😢

it is eivel food

While in rehab i lost 95 lbs in 9osh months almost 10 months , the moment i got out i was brought to mcdonalds and from ther in 5 months i gained 100 lbs from bi ge eating and no exercise or anything my mom lost 110 lbs in 2 years my aunt 150lbs in a year n a half and me nothing just weight gain ive gone to countless doctors to get help getting on the right path , but ive alwats struggled with my weight but its taking over my life now my dream is to be a mom but i cant bc theres too much pressure on my ovaries , . Im addicted to food ill eat anything , and it aucks , i lose my breath rolling over in bed , i dont want to live like this anymore if anyone has advice on what i can do or what i can take to help please comment i need the help its getting out of hand sometimes i wish i could just take scissors to my gut and chop it off !

They would never change our food environment unless they were financially rewarded to do so.

pfft healthy food stinks

I disagree with the whole addiction philosophy. I believe that addiction is nothing more than doing something that we enjoy. Whether it's drugs or food, we like it so much that we want to keep doing it even when we know, in the long run, it may harm us. That's it. Plain and simple. The food doesn't cause us to be addicted just like the drugs don't cause us to be addicted. We cause ourselves to be addicted because we like it so much.😊

I'm living in a big city in Japan, and what's difficult here is that I can find convenience stores in every STREET. They sell affordable snacks (but they're expensive because I buy everyday for months due to its addictive). I am fighting to reduce eating the snacks.

Thank you andrew❤

I'm just realizing having a food addiction is real

Dr. Joan Ifland''s Food Addiction Reset Community saved my life.

Eating away the secret, eating the truth away!!!!

Listened to this as I passed my favorite fastfood restaurant because I have been trying to quit but it feels impossible. This video helped me overcome the urges though, at least for this time

Maybe if we said a prayer before we eat we won't get addicted.

I've been eating frozen meals from a company called Kevin's. I buy them at sprouts.

On 5/9/25, I ended my food addiction. From this day forward, I will not live to eat — I will eat to live. A new and joyful life begins, in the name of God.

– Wise Woman

Have there been any improvements in our available foods? NOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Our government, NIH, big pharma, they all get rich on us being sick and unhealthy. Even our health care and doctors don’t make money if we are healthy.

I'm watching while having chips

You had me until you started talking about the theory of evolution. Which, may I remind you, IS a theory, not a proven fact. They tried desperately to prove it, but can't. That one ignorance nullifies everything else you say.

Ozempic takes away our need for control.. yeah

You are dreaming that the food giants are going to take a leadership role to do this as money and greed beats health everyday to them. Only the wealthy will have access to such advances.

They put sugar in everything.

Some people never get addicted to food or anything else. My mother in law was like this. She could take a bite of one peanut butter cup and be completely satisfied. She was the same weight her whole
life and ate very little. She just didn’t care to eat overall. She never overate, not pasta, cakes, cookies, candy…anything…until she developed dementia. Once she developed dementia, she couldn’t get enough high calories high sugar foods! She still never gained weight even consuming them in large quantities. I always thought her brain made her eat more because it was dying and trying to get more energy through high caloric foods.

Processed food = drugs.
So taking less or taking "improved" processed food wil not help. Because you can't tell a drug addict to take a little bit of coke. It has to stop 100%.
We need Bright Lines. Bright Line Eating is a lifestyle that works, eating no flour, no sugar, 3 meals a day, a specific amount.

Popcorn is a guilty pleasure if mine. I love sweets, fats, carbs, all of that. Popcorn however is an obsession.

This is a poor solution. Give us personal methods we can implement. Ain't no one going to improve the food environment at the cost of profits. Did they stop selling cigarettes?

Watching this while eating a whole box of pizza to myself.

We need rehab facilities for food addicted people

I am able to say no to eating out like 9 out of 10 times literally I can say no.

He’s so delicious looking I wasn’t even thinking about food 😆

Someone get my man some water 💦🚰

I’m not obese or overweight, but I can’t stop thinking about food. When I get home, I go straight to my kitchen. I don’t have a good relationship with money as well. I’m always drinking coffee. And today I was just about to buy food at my work cafeteria after work and my colleagues were just there to buy coffee. One of them asked me why don’t I just go home and eat. My embarrassed self answered it takes long time to commute to home and I was so hungry. I don’t know how to describe this feeling, but I’m just so embarrassed other people can now see it too. I want to cry. I want to fix this.

Obesity is just a symptom of a sick society .

Excellent talk. So true but is so hard to quit.

“I don’t the solution to obesity will be in the form of a pill”

Ozempic has entered the chat

"I don't think the solution of obesity is going to be in the form of a pill or procedure" he technically wasn't wrong, it's an injection 😭

We gained 100 lbs after becoming vegetarians. How? The meat, dairy replacements are loaded with salt, sugar, oils and highly processed. 😢😮

avoid All processed food forever, & exercise heaps. end of.

After a long day of work, would you rather spend an hour making a healthy delicious meal only to spend 5 minutes eating it and having to spend another 20 minutes cleaning up, or would you rather spend 30 minutes bundled up in a blanked on the couch watching Netflix with a pack of double-stuffed Oreos?

Is why they say , a healty client is a lost costumer ! ....they want you sick for more money from you ! So they keep us poised

Not me searching "how to make a chicken filet taste like McDonald's" while watching this

The main focus of the food industry is for profit and is for you to be addicted to their products. There is no way the government can intervene much, but as an individual we can work on ourselves to get rid of those junk foods.