Catch “Freaky Eaters” with Satellite TV Service

It seems like there is no human behavior that television producers will not plumb for interesting content. Recently, two shows on the American TLC network, "Freaky Eaters" and "My Strange Addiction," have shown some of the strangest eating obsessions ever shown on television. If this is your cup of tea, you will have more than enough opportunities to catch these shows with a satellite TV service.

"Freaky Eaters" and "My Strange Addiction" are similar, but also somewhat different. "Freaky Eaters" focuses mostly on people who simply have poor eating habits, while episodes of "My Strange Addiction" that deal with people's eating habits often focus on people obsessed with eating inorganic objects. "Freaky Eaters" episodes have therefore included programs about a man whose diet consists only of cheeseburgers, and a woman who drinks 30 cans of Coca-Cola every day. Two separate episodes have focused on people who eat only French Fries (who knew?). Another woman consumes over 40 gallons of tartar sauce every year, while one man constantly eats raw meat.

Many of the people on "Freaky Eaters" tend to demonstrate something akin to obsessive-compulsive disorder, which of course has been the subject of other successful television programming on satellite TV. The fact that they have this disorder seems to be demonstrated by the fact that many of them are "cured" on the show through a form of "exposure therapy." This psychological technique, used to treat phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder, works on the idea that these "freaky eaters" are simply afraid to eat other foods. By simply forcing them to eat something different for a change, as flippant as it sounds, many of these "freaky eaters" find themselves acting significantly less "freaky."

The items consumed by people on "My Strange Addiction" are significantly more shocking. One episode focuses on a man who eats live bullets and light bulbs, and another on a woman who pulls out her own hair and eats the follicles. Other subjects of the show eat everything from the fillings in couch cushions to household cleanser. The show is disturbing, to say the least.

Interestingly, many people on "My Strange Addiction," when discussing their addictions, explain that they love to eat light bulbs or household cleanser or whatnot because they "love the way it feels" in their mouths. This is a clear indicator of pica, a psychological disorder that leads people to eat inorganic substances. Sometimes, as in the case of people who eat dirt, pica can be caused by a mineral deficiency. Other times, as the show itself indicates during its broadcasts on satellite TV, pica has deep psychological roots, resulting from childhood trauma or even highly serious mental disorders such as schizophrenia. It's difficult to say why we enjoy watching deeply troubled people on television, but TLC is showing that people with bizarre eating habits are a seemingly endless source of fascination for American TV viewers.

You can catch all of the episodes of "Freaky Eaters" and "My Strange Addiction" with a reliable satellite TV service available through the website www.cabletelevision.net.