[steve-b]

You are engaged in the "no true Scotsman" fallacy (the construction of definitions in an ad hoc manner to admit favorable cases and exclude unfavorable ones).

For instance, your argument, such as it is, requires you to either define hunger as a "disease" or accept the preposterous conclusion that consuming non-caloric sweeteners in place of sugar is a form of, as you put it, "self-mutilation".

[annalex]

Hunger is not a disease. So?