Fast food addiction

It's probably the various non-natural chemicals and ingredients used in the processing of fast foods.

I'm a hopeless fat shit and if I go a day or two without garbage food, I get really tired, headaches, and irritable. This doesn't happen with home made food however, no matter how unhealthy it is. It also doesn't make these symptoms go away like a fast food meal would.

It's literally a physical addiction.

It's the sodium.
Fast Food is an incredible source of sodium, and 99% of the time when you think you're craving fast food (also chips, crisps, cheetos etc) you're actually craving the salt in them.

Seriously next time all you want is a bag of chips, have a cup of saltwater first. The feeling should subside within minutes.

We live in a culture where recreational psychoactives are demonized, so for many people food is the closest thing to a drug they're aware of.
>The drug becomes more important than you
Sounds like you're just selfish. Lots of people have things in their lives more important than their friends, it's petty as fuck to resent people for that.
>Especially when it comes to dumb stupid shit like somebody nodding off and pretending they’re acting normal.
What are you, the normal behavior police? This isn't even a drug thing, if someone were tired and nodding off they'd probably prefer not to have some self-righteous asshole grilling them about it. Saying "I'm fine" is the polite version of "stop bothering me with your stupid questions." It's not meant to be a convincing illusion, it's meant to communicate that you should stop bothering them, which you would recognize if you weren't autistic.

Someone took this photo. They thought to themselves, "I need to take a picture if something that embodies fast food, or the American lifestyle." So they perused their Craigslist, or Kijiji or whatever the fuck they have, saying things like "Looking for plus sized model for photo shoot."

The model gets there and spys a laptop, and plates of fatty foods, and the photographer looks at them and says "sit down and pretend you're eating." So this fat person sits down at the table with the laptop at hand, and against all better instinct, takes a hamburger and pretends to eat it. The photographer is pleased and takes many photos of her. After it is all said and done, the model is paid and the photographer is publishing their work on the internet.

After publishing their work, the photographer looks at the results, and immediately regrets it. They see this ham best, stuffing their gaping maw next to a computer, and thinks "this is what I've been reduced to." Then shitposts on Veeky Forums

Do meth, not food, faggots! Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels

Tfw smoking ice while cooking all day for my friends and family

what a terrible way to eat a burger

It's degrading, but at least the fat model has the option to make easy money by finding degrading jobs like that.
Kind of similar to being a midget actor I imagine. You have to humiliate yourself with shit roles all the time but it at least means you never have to worry about money much.

Is your trailer staying warm enough through the winter, Cletus?

>needing meth to stay skinny
are there really people who don't get a deep sense of fulfillment from the feeling of hunger?

Most people don't have anorexia.

>stomach is empty, shriveled from disuse
>kinda want to eat but no appetite
>have to force myself to eat daily, normally go 16+ hours without food

It's not as if I'm poor either, I cook for a living

>16+ hours

I eat once a day, and can't imagine going back to two, much less three meals.

>he's actively defending opiate addiction and the toxic behavior that results from it

>toxic behavior
Wrong, looks like someone needs to take babby's first criminology course and read The Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs. Here you go:
druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/cu/cu1.html
>The United States of America during the nineteenth century could quite properly be described as a "dope fiend's paradise."
>Opium was on legal sale conveniently and at low prices throughout the century; morphine came into common use during and after the Civil War; and heroin was marketed toward the end of the century. These opiates and countless pharmaceutical preparations containing them "were as freely accessible as aspirin is today." 1
>Nevertheless, there was very little popular support for a law banning these substances. "Powerful organizations for the suppression ... of alcoholic stimulants exist throughout the land," 25 the 1881 article in the Catholic World noted, but there were no similar anti-opiate organizations.
>The reason for this lack of demand for opiate prohibition was quite simple: the drugs were not viewed as a menace to society and, as we shall demonstrate in subsequent chapters, they were not in fact a menace.

I do love that feeling but only if it's followed by a nice satisfying meal at the end of the day.

>It's petty to resent people for going through your dresser for cash to fuel their habit
okay junkie

Or maybe you wrote "The drug becomes more important than you" and I called that a petty thing to resent people for, which is completely different from the "stealing money from your dresser" example you're now substituting in after the fact.
First one you're being petty because it's none of your business is your friend cares about something else more than you, second one is theft.

>someone likes a thing
>someone uses a lot of the thing
not real complicated

You live in a society, a network of personal and inpersonal relationships. You should be very concerned that others consider a drug to be of higher importance than an other human, since that's what leads them to steal from dressers. We judge other people's values constantly, and unless you grow your own opium and make your own drugs you are affecting everyone you're around in some way.

I eat mcdonalds at least 3 times a week am I addicted Veeky Forums?

she is big boned

Not just "another" human, but ALL humans. Junkies would sell their mothers into slavery if it got them a big enough supply. The average American is in love with money to a disturbing degree, but for most of them, they have at least one person money could never buy from them.

They pulled iodine out of most of the salt used in kitchens. body knows its missing iodine, recognizes that salt= iodine from conditioning. Guess what? They're authorized to use iodinized salt in fast food.

Body realizes the only way it gets iodine is eating fast food.

Most of my friends all the way through graduation from university were junkies and never once did one of them either steal money from me or even try to steal money from me. Drugs don't make you take other people's cash or belongings, theft is a decision.
Insofar as people are in really bad shape from crystal meth abuse or something and no longer have employment or a place to live, then theft is maybe more likely in the same way it would be more likely for any homeless and/or unemployed person. That's more on the culture and how it demonizes drug use than it is on any other factor though e.g. :
druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/cu/cu1.html
If you don't needlessly criminalize what people do in their personal time for pleasure, you avoid a lot of this trouble altogether. When you marginalize people for enjoying the "wrong" substances (or look down on them for the horrible crime of nodding off and not wanting to talk to you about it) you start to push them out of the workplace and out of their homes into the margins where they have nothing else to lose.

Real life shit here. I have a friend who has a chemistry degree, worked for a number of years in water quality labs, got busted for pot possession and cannot get a job other than non-labor union sweatshop factories. Sentence an intelligent, educated professional to a demeaning life and refuse the contributions he could be making because he got caught smoking pot one evening in a red state where the loonies can't rest unless they're crawling into your bedroom and living room. And surprise, it falls right into the lap of a privatized justice system. Freedom in the US? Not once.

it is exactly what you say, a stupid meme, like internet addiction and gambling too. imo the only true addictions are substance/drug addictions

This is a 10/10 in usa

Who the hell buys uniodized salt from the store?

Citation fucking needed.
"Cravings" in general is almost entirely a myth. Your body doesn't know where it's getting anything and apparently neither does your brain.

Salt, sugar, and fat are addictive. If you eat them a lot and don't understand moderation, you could develop a dependency. You can also become addicted to food if you put some kind of emotional importance on it, like using it as an escape. Because fast food is easy and cheap to get and tastes good, it's very easy for people who use eating as an escape or coping mechanism to get hooked on it.

Hamplanets are unwilling to stop stuffing their revolting faces so they call it "addiction" to victimise themselves for sympathy.

Dude, pica.
What you actually crave is completely wrong, but your body knows something's going on at least.
Pregnant women generally have reduced cravings or no cravings if they take prenatal vitamins.