{"id":765,"date":"2012-08-04T13:13:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T17:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thecelebritytherapist\/?p=765"},"modified":"2012-08-04T13:17:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T17:17:05","slug":"the-role-of-comfort-food-in-food-addictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thecelebritytherapist\/2012\/08\/the-role-of-comfort-food-in-food-addictions.html","title":{"rendered":"The Role Of Comfort Food In Food Addictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Everyone has a favorite food that brings back pleasant memories and those feel good feelings we all want to have. In fact, research shows that for a lot of foods it is less the taste of food but more the smell of the food that actually triggers those feelings. This is because our olfactory sense, our ability to smell, is actually most closely linked with the brain. In you stop and think about what we consider to be those foods that make us feel good you are typically looking at foods with a very pleasant and distinctive aroma.<\/p>\n

In fact our brain makes connections between emotions and various inputs, in the case of food most strongly with odor, taste and the release of chemicals in the brain. If you think about what we view as comfort foods we will typically come up with lists like:<\/p>\n