Overeating Sugar is Like Doing Drugs

Each time we remember something we rewrite the memory with the life we lived since we last remembered that idea. As we develop any sort of patterns those patterns become more important to our minds:

• addiction to drugs and eating sugar or other types of addictions share many similarities
• a repeated action causes more of the response neurotransmitters to be created
• more axioms are devoted toward the brain working on that problem or activity
• if you repeat an activity too much it can cause cross polination of ideas, reinforcing the original frame
• as we do an action too much cells develop more receptors for that type of activity, but we require more of a dose for the same rush

Given enough desire or attention we can change how we think of something, but breaking patterns is hard.

If people view problems as often being associated with patterns then we can look for alternate ways to fulfill our need for balancing energy in and energy out, seeking outlets other than food or whatever our overindulgences may be.