Mark's Minute - New Science Proves that Industrial Food is Addictive

Now, nobody chooses to be a food addict, right? These behaviors arise from primitive neurochemical reward centers in the brain that override your normal willpower. And in the case of food addictions, they overwhelm these normal biological signals that control our hunger. So why is it so hard for people who are overweight to lose weight despite the social stigmas, despite the health consequences like high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease, arthritis, even cancer, and despite their intense desire to lose weight. It's not because they want to be fat. It's because in the vast majority of cases, certain types of food, processed foods made from sugar and fat and salt that are combined in very secret ways by the food industry are addictive. We are biologically wired to crave these foods and eat as much of them as possible, as often as possible. So being aware of this, you can stop and break this cycle of addiction and suffering that you have.