I gotta admit I love all three. I love food, drinking, and watching tv. And if I had to guess these are probably the 3 most common addiction today.
When most people think of addicts they think of drug addicts. But wait have you lately taken a look at your own personal life?
Why are most people overweight - including me by the way 
- because many of us have food addiction issues. We abuse food, often engaging in emotional eating. Emotional eating is comfort eating, it's when we overeat at the end of a stressful day, or basically eat to deal with tough emotions.
Or maybe you have a drinking issue. Maybe you associate drinking alcohol with fun. I know I've had times in my life where my drinking got out of control. Basically I had to drink before going out at night, otherwise my night would suck.
A tv addiction, don't we all have that? They say that the average American watches 4-6 hours of tv a day. I gotta admit this is also a problem for me sometimes
Anyways back to the question, why do we become addicted to food, alcohol or tv. Well it's simple really, life is hard, really hard, and addictions helps us cope with life.
Of course addictions often provide a temporary solution, a temporary escape from life's stress, circumstances and problems. I've had stressful days at work before and that's when my food addiction got the best of me.
I would get home and overeat, basically numbing out the negative emotions and stress. After stuffing my stomach with food until it was about to explode all of a sudden I felt numb. All those negative emotions were gone, well at least until the next morning
Of course I would wake up the next day, and it's back to work, back to real life, real problems, and real circumstances.
