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RE: A Sweet Tooth (and Over-eating) May Increase Your Risk for Alcoholism
Are you sure, though?
Perhaps it's just a case of correlation being confused with causation.
People who overeat most likely have problems with impulse control, which of course can also lead to problems with alcoholism.
People with impulse control problems also do worse in life in general, which also can lead to depression, which then in turn can lead to alcoholism.
Impulse control is a fascinating subject, though. I think a lot of how we manage in life has to do with whether or not we control our impulses.
Always a possibility but most of the studies take that into account.
Yes and these things are all inter-related. Activation of the reward pathways is also strongly implicated in problems with impulse control.
For sure. I wish I had better impulse control! You have given me an idea for future posts - I'll see if I can find an open access review of the literature on impulse control :)
I am with schattenjaeger. There is definitely a correlation, but I feel they have missed the cause.
When trying to heal someone of their vice, smoking or eating or drugs, it is too easy to end up with the person just switching one vice for another. Quitting Smoking in particular, easily leads to overeating. The root cause is usually emotional and usually based in trauma (from childhood). If you don't fill that hole in their heart, one vice shunned, will just lead to another.