The Link between Dopamine and your Unfortunate Addiction to Ice Cream

I think its not the minority who get turned on by food porn, its the vast majority! Othewise explain the role of a makeup artist for food?

I have been in recovery for over fifteen years now - from Alcohol. I could hang out in the local bar or liquor store all day long and never even think about taking a drink. But I cannot walk down the ice cream isle at the grocery store. Seriously. I have to avoid it like the plague. If I bought a pint I would eat it in one sitting. Same or half a gallon. Amazing addiction.
Did I mention that my fav stops on my last trip to Rome were the gelato stands. Who needs monuments and architecture and paintings and gorgeous women - well, strike the gorgeous women, I took one with me, no, she took me :) - when there is gelato to be had about every fifty feet?

I feel as though my point was just proven. This article is saying that merely looking at a photo causes a serious need to eat it, which is why exposure to advertising is more harmful to some than others (but it's not great for anyone really). I think the inability to stop once you start may be more strongly linked to blood sugar and emotional/psychological issues, which is not to diminish how hard it is, but to say that the source of percieved need is different. After all, if a person was truly physically addicted to all sugar, then they'd go on honey binges, or sugar cubes, or eat bananas for 3 days straight. This has to imply that something deeper is happening emotionally-- ice cream is filling a void perhaps that we don't know how to fill with friendship, a grieving process, or fulfilling careers, for example--rather than just a biological process.
Again, studies like this only make it easier to make excuses. And I truly believe these studies are negatively motivated to try to create easy solutions that cost us money when we know we need to do physical, mental and emotional work to deal with our concerns with food, fat and our bodies.

This does say a lot. Not only do I have a heightened response to lots of sweets but the more I eat the more I desire them. If I have ice cream for two days in a row it sets me on a terrible binge over the next week until my wife knocks some sense into me.
This is an important article I believe because lots of people think they are just weak as opposed to understanding what and what causes that binging.

Unfortunately, I think the moment you bring up the fact that there is a small minority of people who have this reaction to this photo, a much larger group of people who don't have it but rather have to do some emotional and physical work to get through other reasons for not limiting ice cream intake suddenly believe they belong to this small minority. As a result, such a belief can become yet another excuse for individuals to take their power over their diets out of their hands. Many scientists who are studying these behaviors are doing it to sell us more products, so many of which have been devveloped and none of which have worked thus far.