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secondary gain for picking. Some female sufferers even do it to sabotage their success with men because they
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Compulsive Eating And Allergies
By K Bakhru
Compulsive eating is caused by one or several masked food allergies, which are invariably
addictive, without the individual realizing it. Not all compulsive eaters are obese, but some reflect this
condition. Others are likely to suffer from some form of overweight due to fluid retention. This is caused
by the allergic response in the capillary blood vessels, when fluid passes through the capillary walls
into surrounding tissues. Another cause is the build up of toxin impregnated body fat due to inefficient
metabolism that is a result of the allergic response.
A compulsive eater, plagued by an undetected, addictive allergy condition, perhaps from several foods
at the same time is probably experiencing some of the following:
- Inability to miss a meal without getting a headache, fatigue or marked irritability. Once you have
eaten, these discomforts miraculously disappear.
- Necessity to eat a specific food every single day, for example at the evening meal.
- Tendency to 'binge-eat' a particular food. Once you have started you cannot stop until you are almost
sick, or too full to eat any more.
- A constant craving for sweets, so that you keep a supply around at all times.
- A habit of using a large amount of your favorite condiment at every meal. No meal feels complete
without it.
- A need to eat wheat products, such as bread, cake, pies, spaghetti, biscuits, every day with lunch and
dinner; or a craving to snack on these foods between meals and later in the evening.
- A habit of waking in the middle o