Hypereaters Can’t Stop Craving Bad Foods

America’s love affair with unhealthy food may be more disturbing than we realized. According to research conducted by the former chief of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, as many as 70 million Americans probably suffer from some degree of “conditioned hypereating.”  Dr. David Kessler defines hypereating as a willpower-sapping compulsion to eat high-fat, high-sugar foods, even when you’re not hungry. Kessler says the phenomenon accounts for the unhealthy food cravings that plague most Americans. Hypereaters aren’t lured by carrots and celery sticks....