It is a mental addiction because eating food excites the pleasure center in a person's brain. For some people, it is also a disorder because, in the brain, there is something called the hypothalamus that alerts you to when you should stop eating, but some people have a screwed up hypothalamus and thus are unable to tell when they have eaten enough food.
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It is a mental addiction because eating food excites the pleasure center in a person's brain. For some people, it is also a disorder because, in the brain, there is something called the hypothalamus that alerts you to when you should stop eating, but some people have a screwed up hypothalamus and thus are unable to tell when they have eaten enough food.