Diabetes, Nutrition, Obesity and Eating Disorders

Food Addiction, Weight and Body Image

Food addiction (FA) is loosely outlined as anhedonic eating nature that involved the eating of extremely edible foods (i.e., foods high in salt, fat, and sugar) in quantities on the far side of equilibrium energy necessities. Food Addiction shares some common symptomology with alternative pathological consuming disorders, like binge disorder. Thanks to consuming a high amount of salt, fat, and sugar the weight increases. As consumption of sugar increases, the metabolism rate decreases, because the fat content present in the body can’t be broken down (Metabolism). As a result of this, it directly affects the body image i.e., Body image involves two major elements like an image of a person’s human body (including size, shape, and appearance), and a person’s viewpoint toward the physical self (such as thoughts, feelings and also beliefs about one’s body).