Many years ago some psychologists and dr's made careers for themselves talking about the "addict's personality" traits which supposedly drew you to alcohol, drugs, food, whatever. It made a lot of intuitive sense, and they could look at addicts and see these traits, so what could be wrong? Well, ANOTHER psychologist said, wait, if these traits predict addiction, we can do a long term study, find out if more people with these factors become addicts. So he did, there was NO predictive value. Some people with sunny outgoing dispositions became sullen withdrawn addicts, some with fearful needy traits didn't, etc. His conclusion, YOU GET AN ADDICT'S PERSONALITY BY BEING ADDICTED. GI's treated with morphine in VA hospitals became addicted. No relationship to personality. I'm not arguing with what some of you have said about using food for comfort, etc., would hope to make us feel better, that because we get emotional help from food does not make us different, weird, emotionally unhealty, whatever. Its the nature of the food that most of us have eaten in the past. Cheers, Bill