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<blockquote data-quote="Listlad" data-source="post: 2134540" data-attributes="member: 499223"><p>Carbs and addiction. For a long time now I have been aware of the school of thought that there is a “spectrum” of addiction and that all of us can be prone to addiction to a range of things and that includes of course carbohydrates. In that sense carb addiction is not any different to an addiction to other food types or perhaps as another example an avid collector of birds eggs or addiction to watching a certain sport or the like. There is a lot of material on these topics of addiction in its various forms on the internet.</p><p></p><p>I did want to add that also for many years now I have been aware that we hanker for foods that we enjoyed when we were young. It is something I noticed. If you enjoyed tripe and onions as a kid you probably still crave for it nowadays. In other words if we became accustomed to eating carbs in abundance in our earlier years and for many years then we will crave for them later in our lives if we can no longer have them. (People who move from one country and food culture to another do experience this).</p><p></p><p>So it might appear to be drifting off topic but it isn’t if you consider so called carb addiction in the same light.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Listlad, post: 2134540, member: 499223"] Carbs and addiction. For a long time now I have been aware of the school of thought that there is a “spectrum” of addiction and that all of us can be prone to addiction to a range of things and that includes of course carbohydrates. In that sense carb addiction is not any different to an addiction to other food types or perhaps as another example an avid collector of birds eggs or addiction to watching a certain sport or the like. There is a lot of material on these topics of addiction in its various forms on the internet. I did want to add that also for many years now I have been aware that we hanker for foods that we enjoyed when we were young. It is something I noticed. If you enjoyed tripe and onions as a kid you probably still crave for it nowadays. In other words if we became accustomed to eating carbs in abundance in our earlier years and for many years then we will crave for them later in our lives if we can no longer have them. (People who move from one country and food culture to another do experience this). So it might appear to be drifting off topic but it isn’t if you consider so called carb addiction in the same light. [/QUOTE]
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