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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why do we talk about alcoholism and drug addiction like a disease, but not food addiction/morbid obesity?
gpt
There ARE people who talk about food addiction and obesity as a disease. Especially those who know about the support for the "set point" theory, that our bodies will basically *make* us want to eat more calories to keep our weight at its desired set point.

The reason that this has not widely spread is because it is still a much newer phenomenon than alcoholism or even drug addiction. Obesity is only started to be studied in the last few decades; there has not been enough time for people to get over their gut feeling that obesity is simple to avoid.