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Been thinking about the fat phobia struggle thread from a few days ago. Came across this video which gave a lot of “food for thought” about the systemic causes of obesity today. Food is engineered to be highly addictive, tweaking the interaction with all senses. Capitalism is a driving reason for the competition over our stomachs. This should occupy a larger part of standard leftist discourse due to its ubiquity and its ease of appearing natural and inoffensive.

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Being addicted to meat and sugar really is just as powerful as any drug addiction for a lot of people and the fact that companies can just pump their food full of addictive chemicals is vile.

[–] christian@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I can't explain how this happened but when I got covid in March 2020 I lost my dessert addiction overnight. If I eat desserts I still enjoy them like I used to, but I stopped craving them in the same way, I no longer think about desserts all the time. I had been really overweight and after about two years I lost seventy pounds with zero deliberate lifestyle changes.

I really think that a lot people who haven't experienced food addiction aren't able to imagine how real it can be for someone else. I can also say from experience that someone with a severe food addiction can see it as a personal failing because it's hard to imagine how much easier restraint is for the people who don't struggle with restraint.

I had an absolutely miserable time with post-covid symptoms, but losing my sugar addiction was definitely a silver lining.