Overeating Is An Addiction, Not Disability

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Overeating Is An Addiction, Not Disability

‘This is a story about addiction. Sugar is more dangerous than the drugs we are taught to fear. Of course it is harder to wrestle with sugar – who can live without food? We eat three times more sugar than we did 50 years ago. It is obviously addictive, and marketed at children by cartoon characters and other grotesques. These overweight children, of which a too-large proportion are poor, because bad food is cheap and swift and delicious, will grow to be overweight adults, and these overweight adults will die too young.’

Read the full article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/12/obesity-disability-eu-court-ruling-addiction-food?CMP=fb_gu