Hooked! Why We CRAVE Junk Food | Dr. Mickey Witte
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 2 November 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Cravings can be so frustrating! Anyone who has ever tried to stop eating chocolate, chips, cheese, or junk food will tell you that these foods are almost impossible to give up!
Dr. Mickey Witte, a neuroscientist specializing in food addiction, joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll to explain the war between your brain and your belly. She details how the hedonic pleasure centers of your brain react the same way to high-fat food as to drugs or even sex.
The brain likes those foods, loves them, and wants more of them! And fast-food restaurants and major food companies know this. Their business model is built entirely on calculating the perfect blend of fat, salt, and sugar in all of their recipes to get you hooked. Which is why losing weight can be so hard!
This is part two of a special two-part conversation with Dr. Witte.
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Part 1: Why We're Overweight
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Dr. Mickey Witte
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Chuck Carroll
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| 0:00.0 | It's got a hedonical of a worthy, pleasure-speaking pathway that starts to override your body's |
| 0:06.5 | pathway that wants to maintain the Alan. |
| 0:08.6 | In this case, McDonald's is talking about its formulated to want to increase intake. |
| 0:14.8 | We've got some scientists that work in labs that are their whole job is to formulate |
| 0:20.2 | the best recipe to increase consumption. |
| 0:24.2 | Right? |
| 0:25.2 | It's a business thing. |
| 0:26.2 | They want to sell more friends right. |
| 0:28.1 | How do we sell fresh rice making them taste really, really good to the deaf folks? |
| 0:31.8 | So it's not a mistake by any means that that happens. |
| 0:40.7 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:44.9 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:48.2 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us in more than 120 countries around |
| 0:53.4 | the world and coast to coast in the US. |
| 0:57.4 | So hello to the exam roomies listening in Eugene, Oregon, Cheyenne, Wyoming, and New York, |
| 1:03.5 | New York. |
| 1:05.0 | We appreciate you helping us to make the world a healthier place. |
| 1:09.9 | This is episode 88 of season 4, number 283 overall. |
| 1:15.5 | And today we are going to be having ourselves some real talk about cravings and what makes |
| 1:21.1 | the junk food habit so hard to kick. |
| 1:25.2 | If you've ever been on a diet and you've reached day 2 or day 3 and you haven't had that |
| 1:30.6 | piece of chocolate or that bag of chips or that cheeseburger, you've probably experienced |
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