[dmayle]

The issue isn't food addiction, it's a broken hunger response (broken by Howard Moskowitz intentionally in the name of profits)...

You have to change your food regimen completely (higher fiber, more protein, less sugar, less carbs, less fat), and that's tough to do when you're surrounded by options that aren't...

I think the real problem is that the symptom we're trying to treat is "overweight", and it's actually a two-stage problem... Fix the hunger response... and only then work on fixing the weight... Fixinig the latter without fixing the former means you'll always gain the weight back, fixing the former doesn't guarantee you lose weight (and is only temporary, if you're using drugs for it)... You have to go after both problems.

[basch]

We shouldn’t ignore grocery stores and marketing.

Aisles and aisles of sugar drinks and colorful sugar packaging.

The way society leaves it up to people to make their own decisions creates the problem at scale.

Society essentially has to take weekly injections to avoid the temptation of coca cola.

[mynameisash]

What breaks the hunger response, and how does one fix it?

Maybe it's well-known, but I read the starvation response Wikipedia page[0] and didn't grok it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation_response

[SoftTalker]

Buy unprocessed food and prepare it yourself. Don't add sugar. Eating processed food and even most restaurant food is eating food that's designed to make you want more, not satiate you.

[mynameisash]

I guess I should have asked about the technical mechanism of what causes and what actually 'breaks', and then what the technical remedy is.