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Originally Posted by Ms Arielle

Watched a TV program within the last few days focusing on the addictions that fill our lives now. THe speaker talked on and on that we have difficulties with gradification, my word not his, and yet I see a number of factors playing into this. It starts with too much instantly available..... learning to wait to get what we want is a learned skill...... and parents dont know how to teach it in a world of abundance. And add on that so much of what is available acts like a drug on the brains: TV, highly stimulating conflict movies, bread, and sugar.....

We are born to addiction now.....

I am not impressed with this “reasoning” because we change our brain chemicals every day; not only what we eat, but what we do, the environment we are in, what we are hearing and seeing and interacting with.

When I was a troubled teen, I would do anything to make the screaming in my brain STOP. Food was a drug I could afford.

Now, I don’t want those foods, don’t want to binge, don’t want to mess up what returned health I am enjoying.

And I don’t want those foods any more.