Food Addiction: It’s Not An Eating Disorder
Jowita Bydlowskais – “People have this response that food addiction can’t be as bad as cocaine addiction partly because society doesn’t see overeating as a problem…”
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Opiates, Iboga and the Roots of Self-Destruction
Dylan Charles & Jeff Cook Waking Times “Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to – alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person – you are using something or somebody …
5 Mind-Blowing Lessons from Psychedelics Experts
April M. Short, AlterNet Waking Times A recent online course unraveled psychedelic science, medicine, art and spirituality. The problem with banning anything out of a fear of the unknown is that many unknowns will remain. Such is the story of many psychedelic drugs in the U.S. While the government has experimented with various psychedelic compounds …
The Root Cause of Addiction?
Heather Callaghan, Contributor Waking Times This is presented as alternative way of viewing addiction. One that does not wage war on the addict with shame and punishment from the so-called “War on Drugs.” Is addiction entirely due to genetic predisposition? That’s non-sense, according to Dr. Gabor Mate who wrote In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, …
11 Ways Our Society Treats Us Like Caged Rats: Do Our Addictions Stem from that Trapped Feeling?
Charles Eisenstein, The Fix Waking Times Instead of a moral failing or physiological malfunction, is addiction an adaptive response to circumstances? You’ve probably heard about those addiction studies with caged lab rats, in which the rats compulsively press the heroin dispensing lever again and again, even to the point of choosing it over food and …
6 Amazing Things Scientists Have Discovered About Psychedelics
April M. Short, AlterNet Waking Times Psychedelics have the potential to treat cancers, addiction and psychological traumas. Despite the fact that the U.S. government deems many hallucinogenic or psychedelic substances to be dangerous, classifying them as Schedule I drugs with “no currently accepted medical use,” various scientists have dared to study their effects. What they’ve …
Cannabis Less Addictive Than High Fructose Corn Syrup & 6 Other Things They Don’t Want You to Know
Marco Torres, Prevent Disease Waking Times There are so many addictive substances in our society that we humans love to portray as evil. We label them as such because of our tendencies and repetition towards anything that is considered to have negative consequences. We are never to be accountable for our actions or behavior–it’s always …
First Study in 40 Years Legitimizes LSD for Psychotherapeutic Use
Buck Rogers, Staff Writer Waking Times The public image problem for psychedelic substances is finally correcting itself, due in large part to the willingness of some scientific communities to ignore taboos and press ahead with modern research into the efficacy of their use as therapeutic medicines. Cannabis is the front-runner in the campaign to end …
Big Sugar Tips Balance of Scale
Dr. Mercola Waking Times There is no shortage of research linking excessive sugar consumption with obesity, and the intake of sugar-sweetened beverages appears to have a particularly strong link. It was five years ago when UCLA researchers found that adults who drank at least one sugar-sweetened beverage a day are 27 percent more likely to …
5 Foods As Addictive As Cocaine
Indian Country News Waking Times Just looking at a photo of a stack of cookies or freshly baked bread can make your mouth water. Research says simply seeing tempting food releases the chemical dopamine in the brain. The neurotransmitter, often referred to as the “happy hormone,” helps control the brain’s reward and pleasure centers. When you indulge, …
Brain Imaging Study Confirms Addictive Nature of Processed Carbs
Dr. Mercola Waking Times A staggering two-thirds of Americans are now overweight, and one in four are either diabetic or pre-diabetic. Carb-rich processed foods are a primary driver of these statistics, and while many blame Americans’ overindulgence of processed junk foods on lack of self-control, scientists are now starting to reveal the truly addictive nature of such foods. Most recently, …
No External Opiates Needed
Ida Lawrence, Contributor Waking Times The other day I was talking with a person who is an addiction counselor, and of course our conversation turned to the young people who are her clients. I wondered what she sees as the core problem that brings a young person into addiction… is it peer pressure, drug advocacy …
High Fructose Corn Syrup Is Causing Addiction Similar To Cocaine
April McCarthy, Prevent Disease Waking Times Results presented at the 2013 Canadian Neuroscience Meeting shows that high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) can cause behavioural reactions similar to those produced by drugs of abuse such as cocaine These results, presented by addiction expert Francesco Leri, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Applied Cognitive Science at the University of …
10 Benefits of Hypnotherapy
Charlotte Whitelock, Guest Writer Waking Times Hypnotherapy is a powerful and effective tool for making massive improvements to your health and wellbeing, and providing you find a caring, professional Hypnotherapist, it can also be extremely relaxing and refreshing, a bit like having a massage for your mind. Hypnotherapy has come a long way since the …
Why Does Society Think I’m Some Kind of Freak for Abstaining From Alcohol?
Andrew Beale, AlterNet Waking Times No one ever asks me why I don’t shoot heroin. Everyone in my circle intuitively understands that heroin is extremely destructive. It’s highly addictive, disastrous for your health, there’s a huge risk of overdose — and the question of using it never comes up. But in the nearly three years …
The 3 Foods That Can Be Destroying Your Health
Neda Smith, FDN, CMTA, HHC, Guest Writer Waking Times Often addiction, especially to food, occurs during your childhood years. We all remember eating cereal as kids, but over the past three years the amount of cereal consumed by children and adults has increased to an all-time high. In its original form it was designed to …
Sugar and Saccharin More Addictive Than Intravenous Cocaine?
Sayer Ji, Green Med Info Waking Times Sugar and artificial sweeteners are so accessible, affordable and socially sanctioned, that few consider their habitual consumption to be a problem on the scale of say, addiction to cocaine. But if recent research is correct their addictive potential could be even worse. Almost 40 years ago, William Duffy …
Is Money Just Another Drug?
In our world, there are likely as many money addicts as there are drug addicts, although, it is not yet illegal to crave more money.
Smartphones: Overuse Causing New Health Crises
The Health Coach, Contributing Writer Waking Times Smartphones are here to stay. Smartphones are radically changing the way we live our lives. Smartphones are causing different health crises, most of which remain under the radar until they seemingly emerge out of nowhere. The headline below speaks directly to two different health concerns which are becoming …
Overcoming Addictions Can Be A Stairway To Heaven
The Health Coach, Contributing Writer Waking Times Sugar … as Sweetness … as the Lord Note from the coach: This may be one of the most important holistic health coaching sessions you’ll ever have. What is it, really, that we all seek in life? Ultimately, isn’t it happiness, joy, bliss … unending. When we experience …