Food Addicts

I saw comedian Jeff Garlin from Curb Your Enthusiasm on GMA talking about his lifelong addiction to food and while I listened to him I remembered one of my closest friend saying to me that if she had to eat like me to live she would rather die.....and as Oprah would say I had an aha moment.....YES food is an addiction just as bad as drugs and alcohol because it kills and makes you an outcast in the same way....when you are obese other people don't want to be around you just as when you are drunk or high........they find you disgusting, you snore, have sleep apnea, huff and puff as you walk always blowing hard.......some smell as if their creases are not properly washed and most of all they have lots of health issues!
Watch some of us eat..... we never stop pushing food in our mouths and some of the skinniest ones among us are the guiltiest of this....they eat for eating sake they are always hungry and they eat anything,the good the bad and the ugly at anytime, and 2 minutes later they are eating again. Being slim does not mean being healthy and some of the unhealthiest people surrounding me are the skinniest......
Food addiction makes you indulge in more than the normal daily requirements - you never have enough so you eat double the junk, double the fats, double the pesticides, double the chemicals. By the way just a little piece of important information for you people who drink 6 and 7 cups of coffee per day sometimes more.....coffee is the most heavily sprayed food or beverage commodity in the world, enormous amounts of chemical pesticides and herbicides are used in its propogation.
Those of us who are married to these people who indulge in all kinds of junk foods, our mornings are a horror story.... we have to listen to them as their sinuses drain, their eyes are filled with mucus, some have headaches as they react badly to some food or the other but they don`t know which as they ingest so many things at one go that it's hard to know exactly what they are allergic to. Their digestive system stops working so they repeat all the mess they had the night before and the doctors tell them they have acid reflux, how about telling them not to eat so much acidic food instead of giving them chemicals to cover the cause?
The sad part is we really can`t control our food addictions as our taste buds are shot, everything in our lives surround food, the more the merrier. When we are happy, we have food when we are sad, we have food....going on a date we have food, staying home alone we have food, at weddings, at funerals, it's all about the food. Some of us try but vegetables really can`t replace the taste of Doritos and the double whopper with cheese....can it? And even when coffee drinkers switch to decaf, do you know that it is made from methylene chloride, commonly used as paint remover and known as a cancer causing agent?
Everyday as I talk and watch and fight my own demons, I realize that FOOD is the epidemic of this century...FOOD people, NOT SWINE FLU!