Gluttony: Are We Addicted To Eat Analysis

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Reaction Paper 2: Addiction After reading the article, "Gluttony: Are We Addicted to Eating?" I now have more knowledge about how people become gluttons and how gluttony is defined. The article focuses on how the human brain is tricked into craving and wanting more than needed when eating unhealthy processed foods verses healthy natural foods. Processed foods are considered high in sugar and high in fat verses natural foods that are not processed. Natural foods are foods that give you the nutrients you need to maintain your health, have energy, as well as making you feel good. For example, if you keep healthy foods like fruits and vegetables on the counter, it inhibits the human into eating less and feeling great about
After completing classes and schoolwork mostly every day, I went to CookOut to get one strawberry milkshake. This became a routine for me because it is my favorite dessert and it was also a measure of a successful day after my list of goals for the day was completed. The milkshake for me was a reward because I knew every day that I had something to look forward to and to work towards while getting things completed during the day. With this being something that I had practically daily, I knew that it would be the right item to choose for this reaction study. The first day that I went without the Strawberry milkshake from CookOut, I could immediately feel withdraw from it, as if something was missing. At first, I was sure if it was because this was sort of my "reward" for completing daily tasks, because of the fact that it does contain a lot of sugars or if that it had become such a routine that my day just felt incomplete without it. Now, after seeing how sugar can be similar to addiction, I know that is definitely a reason why I was feeling this way and believe that it is a combination of all three. There were no real environmental factors that made it difficult to avoid the milkshake because I do not live near CookOut and do not have to pass it on my daily drive to school and work. The only environmental factors were my friends asking me
I most likely could've gone longer but after receiving an invitation to go there, I could not resist. This experience showed me that sugar is actually addictive, no matter how light people may take it. It also showed me that certain things in your daily routine could become addictions, whether or not you want them to or not. I also learned that when something addictive is a part of your daily routine that it will take willpower to get away from and also having something else to occupy this time may help you a great deal if you are a person that is trying to get over an addiction. I don't believe that I am addicted to CookOut milkshakes but I would prefer it because I really enjoy

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