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BILL: Our current plague of obesity reminds me of an old New Yorker cartoon. It showed weekend escapes!
a garden party dowager, sitting at a drug store soda fountain. She’s so well upholstered GO NOW!
that her rear end droops down over her stool on all sides. While her uniformed chauffeur
stands beside her, waiting to take her wherever she wants to go, she’s spooning up an EDIT ORS' PICKS
elaborate Banana Supreme Sundae, weeping into the fudge sauce with very bite she
takes. Hamster? Gerbil? No, it's
DR. DAVE: No caption needed. I take it, Bill, your point is—If our addictions end in Snooki inside that ball!
bringing us no pleasure, only pain, why do we continue them anyway? Reality TV 'star' practices for
tonight's ball drop (love the
BILL: I remember my last drink. Stumbling around Bleecker St. in the Village, a pint of gin
plastic cup, Snooks!)
in my hand, another in my raincoat pocket. I hope I don’t drink this, I say to myself and
drink it. I hope I don’t buy another I say to myself and buy two. But Dave, I bet there are
more people addicted to candy bars, cookies, fudge sundaes, chocolate brownies – Happy Stinkin' New Y ear:
DR. DAVE: -- in short, to different forms of sugar -- No trash pickup til Monday
Garbage removal, street
BILL: -- than to booze, pills and/or dope. Why can’t they stop? sweeping still days away, says
NYC sanitation boss.
DR. DAVE: Americans consume an average of about ½ cup of sugar daily, even though
it’s been linked not only to obesity and hypertension, but also to diabetes, attention and
memory problems, hyperactivity, anxiety, and depression. What you are talking about, Bill, Russell Brand likely in t he
is the very hallmark of addiction: obsession and compulsion. doghouse for t weeting
THIS pic
BILL: But Dave, these are ordinary foods. Advertised to kids on TV. Your mother buys The funnyman posted this photo
them in the supermarket. Where do obsession and compulsion enter? of wife Katy Perry with no make-
up on and quickly deleted it.
DAVE: As a recovering drunk, Bill, whose addiction was immediately life-threatening, you
seem to have a problem with other addictions, those whose destructive potential is more What is she 'do-ing?!
long-term. Kardashian sports braids
Reality TV starlet is
BILL: True, I do resent articles like the ones that track Katie Holmes’s cupcake addiction photographed wearing tight
– substituting Isabelle's Curly Cakes from the Plaza Hotel in New York for Jack Daniels cornrows. VOTE: Hot or not?
Old #7. Rather than drinking, they say, her regime is to work out even while having those
sugary confections flown to her film set in California.
The most notorious
DR. DAVE: Playing to readership for both gourmet food and weight loss, the gossip Twitt er moment s of 2010
columnists are really describing the cycle of binging and purging in a positive light. A
Demi Moore tweeting of pics
cycle that can evolve right into bulimia.
herself in a bikini was a
milestone in stupidity.
BILL: But you have to wonder Doc. When I was researching this column about sugar
addiction—at first I was impressed with Kelly Ripa using her celebrity status to speak out
about raising her kids in what she calls "our over-sugared society." Then I see that by Mom, daughter accused of
making sure her kids do a lot of swimming to work off the calories, she feels she is molesting same teen boy
winning the battle over their sugar addiction! for 3 y ears
Police say the pair did it without
DR. DAVE: More unconscious support for solving addictive sugar intake with bulimic
knowing about each other’s
purging. Not surprisingly, most bulimics go on to using laxatives or vomiting because it’s
relationship with him.
easier than ten laps around the family pool.

BILL: Or daily high-impact dance workouts to a Katie Holmes tape!

DR. DAVE: The point I’d like to make here is most people fail to see how eating disorders
work to continue the addiction. The National Institute on Mental Health has put together a
good solid website for both professionals and the general public to review the dynamics
of eating disorders, how they are assessed and the types of treatment for them.

BILL: And for people who laugh off the idea of sugar being addictive, I have come to
respect Dr. Jeffrey Rossman, from Canyon Ranch in Lenox, Mass. His column, "Mind-
Body-Mood Advisor," appears weekly on Rodale.com.

DR. DAVE: These two resources point to the obvious, just as we linked alcohol and

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alcoholism or tobacco with nicotine addiction—its time to connect sugar addiction with
eating disorders.

BILL: All of which is a long way from what used to be my own eating disorder.

DR.DAVE: Which was--?

BILL: The 5-Martini Diet—pass out before dinner.

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