Your body is thwarting your weight-loss efforts

Raleigh News and Observer has a good article on getting fat:

Even though people are hard-wired to find rich foods pleasurable, most are not addicted in the sense of becoming increasingly compulsive and self-destructive.

But in an unprecedented environment of food abundance, a steady diet of cheeseburgers, pizzas and doughnuts can trigger in some the same cravings and tolerances that an addict gets from heroin or cocaine. Recent brain studies show that drug addicts and people who are obese have similar neurobiological circuitry.

An article well worth your time.