Although I think eating is a pleasure and is always a necessity for our bodies, I agree with the article which says the food addiction is a reality. The part I disagree with is when it says “Many of these food-related pathologies have psychological causes’ because I think it is the only cause.

I have watched the TV show “bigger loser” and analyzed how these people became to put a lot of weight on and always come to the conclusion that people who loosed more weight and brought the goal off, were people with minor emotional problems or the ones that first resolve their conflicts. It is true that many of them start to gain weight as children since their moms wanted them to overeat, but the emotional problem was from their mothers and pass through them.

There are many armchair critics watching the program and criticizing the show’s players. It is easy to just simply watch and maybe they need to get their own house in order before judging them. They only think the players must stop eating and that's all but they don’t know it’s not that simple. In those cases the family, the history, the circumstances, the friends, the traumatic events, all these things can play a role in this eating disorder.

Putting this topic aside, when I was a teenager I had a classmate that started to lose weight progressively, she only ate lettuce with integral bread. In these years we didn’t know the anorexia existed. She started to do an exigent routine of exercises, she use to drink too much water and she always got the perfect score in all the subjects. But every time I saw her, I thought like she could fly on the wind, she was so thin. If I had known in those years, the things that I know now about anorexia, perhaps I will have helped her to cheer her up, I will have offered a shoulder to cry on and the most important thing, I will have understood what was happening. Now I’m aware that she was in hot water, dealing with too much pressure, looking for the perfection that her mother put on her.

In conclusion, I think the article is good but has a lot of unnecessaries advice that only can be done as soon as the person that has the food addiction, gets to resolve his or her internal conflicts and be completely stable emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Only if the person arrives this calm state will be ready to eat healthy food, will have a healthy exercise routine, will be able to distract its mind of food, and will be a different person for sure.