Food intolerance: food addiction

FOOD INTOLERANCE: FOOD ADDICTION
Craving the culprit food is the most bizarre aspect of food intolerance - it affects about 50 per cent of patients, at a very rough estimate. These patients tend to crave the particular food or foods that cause their problems. They may be aware of the craving, and just regard it as a personal quirk, or they may be unaware of it, but unconsciously select foods containing their culprit food. With wheat and milk, it is quite easy to do this unawares - the person who has to have biscuits and a milk drink before bed, eats wheat cereal and milk for breakfast and always has a cheese sandwich for lunch, may well be a 'food addict' of this sort.
If the food is avoided for a while, the cravings eventually disappear. But unfortunately, they reappear all too easily. Eating the same food on a regular basis again can quickly reestablish the 'addiction', and the downward spiral is particularly difficult to combat. Because eating the food initially gives great satisfaction and well-being to a person in this 'addicted' state, self-control is all the more difficult.
One would not want to take the analogy with drug addiction too far, but 'food-junkies' seem to suffer withdrawal symptoms when they give up their favourite food, just as heroin addicts and alcoholics do when forced to kick their habit. One of the problems of doing an elimination diet is that the first few days are often very unpleasant due to these withdrawal symptoms.
Although this aspect of food intolerance sounds very peculiar and unlikely to anyone new to the subject, none of the doctors working in this area are in any doubt about it - they have seen too many people with this same curious pattern of eating behaviour. There is now a tentative explanation for this strange phenomenon.
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