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We are all addicted to food. The chemical changes in our bodies that will occur due to withdrawal are ultimately fatal in every case.
I am overweight and have a time with choices and portion control. But I reserve the use of the word addiction to substances that are used for effect but are not needed for life. I also don't use the word for behaviors or habits.
Here is a shocker. Things that are pleasurable cause the brain to behave in a way that it does with other pleasurable experiences. They are analogous, but they are not the same. The solution is also not the same because abstinence is not possible with diet.
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I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
Robert A Heinlein in "They Do It With Mirrors"
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