Relationship between Food and Addiction (Essay Sample)

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Relationship between Food and Addiction
The notion that a person might get addicted to eating is gaining popularity. This is based on brain imaging and other research into the impact of compulsive overeating on the brain's pleasure centres. Areas, Experiments in animals and humans demonstrate that food, particularly highly delicious foods, can engage the brain's reward and pleasure centres, triggering addictive narcotics like cocaine and heroin. Sugar, fat, and salt-rich diets are highly appetizing. This article will address why it is so difficult to stop an eating habit and whether it is possible to be addicted to a specific food or food in general.
Highly appealing foods, like addictive substances, cause the release of feel-good brain chemicals like dopamine. People quickly feel the need to eat again after experiencing pleasure associated with increased dopamine transmission in the brain's reward circuit due to consuming particular meals. High-palatable food reward signals may override other signals of fullness and contentment. As a result, even when people are not hungry, they eat.
Compulsive overeating is a type of behavioural addiction in which a person might become obsessed with a pleasurable behaviour