How does toxic hunger affect weight?

Joel H. Fuhrman, MD

Family Medicine

Toxic hunger (physical addiction to an unhealthful, low-micronutrient diet) is the main reason people fail on diets. Toxic hunger is a primary cause of obesity and overweight in the modern world. We have adopted a toxic diet, and because of it, we are forced to overeat. To have become overweight, a person's food cravings, recreational eating, and other addictive drives have come into play.

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Obesity

If you have too much body fat, you are obese, just like over 70 million other Americans. It happens because you eat more calories than you use, and your body converts the excess to fat. There are lots of reasons that this can happen. Our lifestyle may lack exercise, we are given portions that are too big and too caloric when we eat, and some of us are just more efficient genetically at converting food into fat.

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