food manufacturers know what people like to eat. they study taste and change up ingredients to enhance taste. that means adding refined sugars fats and salt to so many products -- i don't call many of them "food " but instead "food-like products" since there's nothing natural about them. there is a growing body of evidence that suggests that there may be two groups of people -- those with no history of addiction in their families but they develop addictive tendencies with processed foods they were weaned on; and another group that has a strong family and personal history of addiction for whom food is a transference of the addiction (you give up drinking smoking or drugs and begin to overeat).
can some foods be addictive?