Food Restriction Addiction: Addressing Extreme Dietary Restrictions and Obsessions
Heather Travis
Freegulls Publishing House
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In a world where food abundance is often taken for granted, there exists a hidden struggle that manifests not through overconsumption, but through the deliberate and compulsive restriction of food intake. Food restriction addiction represents one of the most paradoxical forms of addictive behavior, where individuals become dependent on the act of deprivation itself, finding a sense of control, identity, and even euphoria through limiting their food consumption. This condition challenges our conventional understanding of addiction, as it involves the absence of a substance rather than its presence, yet creates the same cycles of compulsion, tolerance, and withdrawal that characterize other addictive disorders.
The concept of food restriction addiction emerges from the recognition that eating disorders, particularly anorexia nervosa and certain forms of bulimia nervosa, share many characteristics with substance use disorders. However, food restriction addiction extends beyond clinical eating disorders to encompass a broader spectrum of behaviors where individuals become psychologically and physiologically dependent on restricting their food intake. This can manifest in various forms, from extreme dieting behaviors to intermittent fasting taken to unhealthy extremes, from orthorexia nervosa where only "pure" foods are consumed to exercise bulimia where food restriction is combined with excessive physical activity.
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