Dr. Jason Fung

The more you know, the better you do.

Because now, if you know that food addiction is a problem, now you can say, let's bring the right toolkit in.

Instead of say, everything is calories, everything's a nail.

Now you can say, well, the problem is this.

Let's reach into our, you know, toolkit and let's get this right.

Right.

You think about addiction, which is fascinating because it's like if you think about alcohol addiction.

So alcohol addiction is important because you have like, say, Alcoholics Anonymous, they do 12 steps.

None of which is drink less alcohol, right?

It's like, it's about forgiveness and having a sponsor.

So friendships, it's about sharing.

It's about, you know, being kind to yourself.

There's so much in it.

That's so good.

So now we have a food addict who's addicted to ultra processed foods.

And we say, just eat less, right?

That's the just drink less alcohol.

None of this sort of understanding about forgiveness and mindfulness and friendship and having the right people around you, right?

It's like, okay, but why would you treat these two addictive substances differently?

One of which you treat with great kindness and compassion, the other of which you start blaming the victim, right?