We all got through 2021’s COVID isolation differently: some with online shopping. Others with wine. Me with sugar.of sugar. Think regular banana bread for morning tea, Snickers for afternoon snacks, entire packets of Tim Tams several nights a week. Which didn’t bother me much – lockdown was a weird time. You do what you have to do.no more than 10 per cent of a person’s daily energy intake comes from.
. I’ve craved sweet treats most nights, and regularly given into temptation. “Sugar addict” is how I’ve described myself after finishing yet another block of chocolate I didn’t plan to eat – but can you really be addicted to food in the same way as illicit drugs? Part of what makes the question of food addiction so tricky is the “stigma and emotion” around the word. “If you go to a doctor and say, ‘I have a food addiction,’ they’ll say, ‘There’s no such thing’,” Brown argues. “If you say, ‘I have a problem with my eating behaviour and it is compulsive in nature,’ … [the doctor will] be much more accepting.” She prefers, a term encompassing behaviours which experts who treat and study disordered eating don’t yet have a formal diagnosis for.