We had a bit of excitement over at "Fat Boy Thin Man" central today. Jennifer Larue Huget, "Eat, Drink and Be Healthy" column at the Washington Post, with whom I've spoken a couple of times, posted a query in The Check-up, a feature on the paper's website asking, "Is food addiction real?"

(Tally as of almost 7 p.m. Eastern: 265 votes, and only 2 percent say "no, it's only an excuse for being fat..." No, of course it's not scientifically legit as a poll; no web poll is. But still, we win, we win!)

The excitement was a good bit more intense for us because the text in the feature spoke very nicely of the book, and included...

"I [started out] among the skeptics who felt food addiction was a copout. But after meeting Prager and reading his book, my view has shifted. Being addicted to food doesn't mean enjoying big quantities of delicious treats. It's more like being a slave to food, adjusting your schedule and compromising relationships with other people to accommodate your cravings, needing more and more of certain foods to achieve the satisfaction you seek, and not even particularly enjoying the food you cram into your mouth. Those all sound like addictive behaviors to me."

That's one of the reasons I wrote the book, to help expand the acceptance of the condition, so it's gratifying to see one such expansion in progress. Another part of the thrill was that we knew she was working on a column on the topic, but the online entry was a bonus that popped up in a Google Alert that let's me know when someone mentions "Fat Boy Thin Man."

Though as a newspaper vet, I know that no matter the editor's plan, nothing is published until ink actually touches paper, I'm told the column is intended for Thursday (1/20). If that indeed comes to pass, I may touch on the topic again then. You know, like, maybe. No big deal or nuthin'.