Sugar Cravings: Why you can’t follow a plan to lose weight. Why are we reluctant to call eating disorders and other negative habits that relate to food eating addictions? According to Gabor Mate, MD, author of In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts, a powerful book, the definition of an addiction is: a habit that causes negative consequences and despite these consequences you cannot stop or change easily. According to most addiction experts, an addiction is also a chronic neurobiological … [Read more...]