can some foods be addictive?
food manufacturers know what people like to eat. they study taste and change up ingredients to enhance taste. that means adding refined sugars fats and salt to so many products -- i don't call many of them "food " but instead "food-like products" since there's nothing natural about them. there is a growing body of evidence that suggests that there may be two groups of people -- those with no history of addiction in their families but they develop addictive tendencies with processed foods they were weaned on; and another group that has a strong family and personal history of addiction for whom food is a transference of the addiction (you give up drinking smoking or drugs and begin to overeat).