Hey Cas,
Thank you for your reply and suggestions and i can certainly relate to you. I have tried healthy alternatives and sometimes i am successful and i can go for weeks without touching junk. But then during times of high stress anxiety kicks in and healthy options just doesn't cut it - it's chips and chocolate that i want and i become this ravenous, glutenous binge eating pig and yeah the shame and guilt is awful.
I watched a documentory on the ABC recently about sugar addiction and how it is a drug that stimulates the same reward area of the brain as cocaine and the impact that it is having and the high prevalence of obesity because of it.
In another article i read that binge eating is accepted as an eating disorder and it is the most common of the eating disorders but is the least recognised and diagnosed of the eating disorders.
In the latest National Geographic magazine there is an aticle about the obesity epidemic in the USA and how fast food companies are targeting those in low socio-economic areas.
For example The Bronx in New York is considered to be a grocery store desert - it is cluttered with fast food outlets selling cheap rubbish in quantity and it is extremely difficult to find a grocery store selling healthy food which is more expensive anyway. As a result there is a high prevalence of obesity, malnourishment and diabetes etc and a health system that is difficult for these people to access.
It could be said that the situation is similar here in Australia - you would be hard presssed to find a maccas, kfc and hungary jacks in a high affluent area!
Anyway i think i'm getting off track here so i'll leave it at that. Today has been a good day for me so far.
Best wishes
Dave
P.S. Cas i like your profile picture, very interesting - what does it represent?
