Researchers from the University of New South Wales think they’ve figured out what causes people to overeat, to the point of obesity.  It’s the same thing that causes anorexia: Executive Function Disorders.

EFD is a brain condition that prevents people from being able to organize their lives.  The Australian scientists think that obese people, and anorexic people are just the extreme opposites of the same condition.

Anorexics deal with not being able to deal with food by not eating it.  Obese people deal with not being able to deal with food by not thinking about what, and how much they’re eating.

The researchers think therapies used for anorexics, should work with chronically obese people.