Physically Additive Foods (chocolate, cheese, meat, and sugar) – by Neal Barnard, MD

This is a video of a lecture by Neal Barnard, MD in which he talks about why foods like chocolate, cheese, meat, and sugar are physically addictive. He also states we can eliminate our craving for these foods by eliminating them from our diet for 3 weeks. This impressed me a lot because I had craved cheese and added it to almost everything I could. After seeing this video, I stopped eating cheese. And after about a month, I no longer crave cheese and have eliminated it from my diet. Try it yourself.



After the jump, I have listed timelines for different topics in Dr. Barnard’s lecture/video.

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Topic timelines -

2:40 – sugar has drug like effect working through the opiate system in the brain.

4:50 – opiate blocking drug removes the appeal for a chocolate addict.

6:19 – why chocolate is addictive.

7:12 – research study showing the effects of diet on weight

8:43 – what did they miss while on this diet?

8:59 – they wanted cheese.

9:46 – substance in dairy products looks like morphine.

10:25 – protein that makes us like dairy products.

13:06 – reasons to stop eating cheese.

13:38 – eliminating cheese improves many diseases like arthritis, migraine headaches, and digestive problems.

15:19 – relationship between milk and prostate cancer.

16:43 – value of breaking meat seduction – reverse heart disease, reduce body weight, reduce cancer risk by 40%, reduce blood pressure, improve or reverse diabetes, reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

18:03 – fat content in different foods.

18:35 – beef, cholesterol and heart attacks.

20:05 – relationship between eating beef and impotence.

21:12 – impotence is an early warning of heart attacks and strokes.

21:15 – American Cancer Society being sponsored by the meat industry, promoting meat which actually causes cancer.

24:11 – how to break free of addictive foods.

27:08 – breaking food craving cycles.

29:11 – social support.

30:22 – make a 3 week commitment and do it 100%.

31:50 – 3 weeks is all the time you need to adapt and break food cravings.

32:28 – taste buds adapt to what they have been experiencing including fat, sugar, and salt.

33:20 – use food substitutes.

38:14 – influence of industry in setting national dietary guidelines.

39:00 – effects of poor nutrition on children.