{"product_id":"food-addiction-9781067162771","title":"Food Addiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Konrad Van Staden\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Baobab Process\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Baobab Process\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Eating Disorders \u0026amp; Body Image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou have stood in front of the refrigerator at midnight, not hungry, wondering what on earth was happening to you. This is what is happening. And there is a way through.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou are not greedy. You are not weak. You are not someone who simply lacks the willpower, the discipline, or the moral fibre to put the biscuit down and walk away. You are someone whose brain has been caught in a pattern so neurologically entrenched that it functions less like a bad habit and more like an addiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor decades, compulsive eating has been framed as a failure of character. The science now tells a very different story. Brain imaging research shows that people with food addiction symptoms display patterns of activation strikingly similar to those seen in cocaine addiction. Highly processed foods, particularly the engineered combinations of refined sugar and refined fat, hijack the reward circuit in ways our evolutionary wiring was never designed to withstand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is biology. This is neuroscience. This is not a character flaw dressed up in scientific language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFood Addiction\u003c\/i\u003e, Clinical Psychologist and Jungian Analyst Konrad van Staden draws on twenty years of clinical work, the rigorous research literature behind the Yale Food Addiction Scale, and the depth-psychological framework he is known for, to offer something most books on this subject refuse to give: the truth, told compassionately, with a real path through.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside, you will discover: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy willpower was never going to be enough, and what is actually happening inside the hijacked brain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe neurobiology of cravings, tolerance, and the cycles of restriction and rebound\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow early emotional patterns become the silent architects of compulsive eating\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe particular pain of binge eating and the loneliness of carrying something you feel you cannot name\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA multi-layered framework for healing that integrates neurobiology, depth psychology, and relational repair\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn honest, realistic vision of what freedom actually looks like\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the person who has lost the same thirty kilograms six different times. For the reader who eats alone and feels shame always. For anyone who has begun to suspect that what they are dealing with is not a matter of willpower at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe shame you have carried about your eating is not helping you. It is making things considerably worse. Understanding is the beginning of relief, and relief is the beginning of freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBegin reading today. The compassion you have withheld from yourself is inside these pages.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Baobab Process","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47892877148311,"sku":"9781067162771","price":1450.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781067162771.webp?v=1781189624","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/food-addiction-9781067162771","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}