Food Addiction: Genetics, Cheat Days, Most Addictive, and More | Dr. Ashley Gearhardt

The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee

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🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Could your genes have you wired to be addicted to food? Or is it the food itself that makes it so easy to overeat?

"The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll, who went to extreme lengths to lose 280 pounds and break a severe food addiction, is joined by Dr. Ashley Gearhardt on The Exam Room to explore the mind's relationship with food.

Topics Discussed

- Which foods are most addictive?

- How quickly can you become addicted to food?

- Withdrawal symptoms while dieting

- Rethinking "cheat days" to not derail weight loss

- What are ultraprocessed foods?

- Are food addictions more severe than drug and alcohol dependence?

- And more!

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Dr. Ashley Gearhardt

https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/fastlab

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Chuck Carroll

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Physicians Committee

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Barnard Medical Center

https://www.barnardmedical.org

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0:00.0	I think someone argue they shouldn't even be called food.
0:06.5	These sorts of ultra processed and just really created super refined substances that have
0:14.1	been optimized to deliver such high amounts of refined carbohydrates like sugar and flour
0:21.1	and fats.
0:22.4	It levels the way surpass what we get in nature.
0:26.5	And so it rapidly can eat it so fast, it melts in your mouth and then it hits your brain
0:32.2	so fast.
0:33.6	When we started to mess with the food supply, that's when people really started to struggle
0:38.2	and lose control.
0:47.9	Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee.
0:52.1	Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll.
0:55.6	Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us coast to coast in the US and
1:00.3	in more than 150 countries.
1:03.1	Hi to everyone listening in Yonkers, New York, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Sandy Mount, Ireland.
1:10.7	Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place.
1:15.9	This is episode 31 of season 6, number 427 overall.
1:23.9	Let's begin today with a Did You Know.
1:27.9	And this is a good one.
1:29.5	Did You Know that there is nicotine in cauliflower?
1:34.9	Yeah, the same nicotine that's in tobacco is found in cauliflower.
1:42.3	But nobody is saying that cauliflower is addictive like a cigarette.
1:47.9	So why is that?
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