Dr. Jason Fung

And, you know, all these different types of hunger

they need different toolkits, right?

If you're dealing with distracted eating, it's a different toolkit.

If you're dealing with addictive eating, that's a different toolkit, right?

It's like, you know, you say, oh, everything in moderation.

But what if you're an addict?

And food addiction is just one of these topics that are covered.

It's very important, actually.

But if you're addicted, you don't need to take moderation.

You need to abstain.

It's like an alcoholic.

You don't say, hey, why don't you have a drink?

Because it's like that one drink will lead to more.

So if you have food addictions, you need to treat it like an addiction.

And there's so much actually interesting data on food addiction in the last five years.

The field is sort of exploding about how important it really is.

Um, and so, you know, again, and, and it's, it's really due to the ultra processed foods, right?

So in a country that doesn't have so much ultra processed foods, they don't have to deal with that.

You don't have to add that extra step, but we do because we have that problem with ultra processed foods and food addiction.

So therefore, there's a lot of things that we always have to adapt, but the underlying key is to know about it.