Article on Carb Addiction

 Thanks to Maryellen R., who posted this on the Main Forum:

www.details.com/style-advice/the-body/201103/carbs-caffeine- food-cocaine-addiction

Tami

Loved this article.  My doctor says carbs are more addicting than heroin.

It's an interesting one! Some posters on OH say they are carb addicts in the way that the article describes. But it seems to be a bit more selective than drug addiciton. I know that some people who use cocaine or heroin avoid addiction but they are in the minority and I am not sure that that is true with carbs.

I am addicted to food. But I don't think to carbs any more than anything else. I think, in fact, my addcition is to eating not to food itself. If I have left overs in the fridge, I am just as likely to pick a the meat as I am at the creamed potato or dessert.

If I open a packet of cookies, or bake a cake, I am in grave danger of eating the whole lot! But that is equally true of a nice joint of pork! Although, thanks to my band, I couldn't eat all the pork now!

Kate