DesFIP
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Anything that hits the pleasure center of the brain can become an addiction. It depends on how addiction prone you are, which is why one person can have a drink and not drink again for three months and others cannot stop after one.
If you're going to claim that because some people can stop after one cookie and someone else can't that therefore it isn't an addiction, then you must logically claim that neither is alcohol or illegal drug use. Because some people can stop after one drink and others cannot. Same with marijuana, cocaine and many other drugs.
We started just buying a cookie each when out. What we've discovered is that having that one starts up a craving. It works better if we limit the junk food to one day a week. Here it's Tuesdays at the bowling alley. The rest of the week, I make a skinny version of apple crisp if we have a sweet tooth.
However, when I was a girl, way before computers, we had manual typewriters. When the electric ones came out, secretaries gained approximately five pounds per year from no longer expending the calories on moving their fingers as strongly.
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