http://scientopia.org/blogs/scicurious/2013/06/12/obesity-and-ocd-11-0/
As part of a group of "compulsive overeaters", I think that there is a correlation, but not necessary a one that will show up in the mass population. Everyone of us is obsessive about food and other thing in our lives. We are obessive-compulsive people, but few of us are sufficiently severe to be diagnosed with OCD.
Most of us also use our obessive-compulsive nature for our work...our other unbalanced portions of our lives where we enjoy and spend time, after recognizing the problem. This is not our only common problem, but a frequent one, to common for no connection. Until we recognize that obesity is not a single problem but a group, and address each and every single problem, I predict there will be no solution.
Mild obsessive compulsive thinking can be handled by the relabel, reframe, refocus, revalue method developed by Dr. Schwartz ... http://www.youarenotyourbrain.com/drschwartz/
His first book, Brain Lock, helped me a great deal.
" I predict there will be no solution." ...... and you may well be right Fred.
ReplyDeleteYes, obesity is an ever increasing problem, no pun intended. It was described recently as a ticking time bomb. The tick is getting louder and still there is no satisfactory answer that people want to hear. I wonder do they want to hear? The big food manufacturers certainly don't appear to want to, do they.
Just my thoughts
All the best Jan
Thanks Jan; I have found a solution to most of my issues, to where I know how to live on in the upper end of overweight range, and am still looking for more solutions. In the last 30 years, I have reworked my philosophy a number of times, each time getting closer to correct. I have now understand motivation, and how to lever it off my values, and still that is not enough, along with Primal/Paleo/low-carb/19th Century. Most people will not go to that effort. That is the primary reason to say that there is no simple solution.
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