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Food is a drug if not properly consumed or used. Throughout America, the number of obese or overweight people is rapidly increasing, due to the lack of excercise, laziness, and mostly the food we ingest everyday. Almost everything we eat has the effect of a drug or narcotic and thus attracts our attention and sooner or later our addiction.
"Food is a drug" seems to be a vast understatement these days. Numerous people are addicted, so to speak, to food, thus the obesity levels in the U.S. There are many definitions of the word drug as there are many definitions of the word narcotic, but both end up meaning the same thing. Drug- A chemical substance, such as a narcotic or hallucinogen, that affects the central nervous system, causing changes in behavior and often addiction; narcotic- An addictive drug, a soothing, numbing agent or thing. Both definitions, of drug and narcotic, use reference to the word addiction, and are both meant in the same manner of a "compulsive physiological......

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