Processed Food Addiction: Foundations, Assessment, and Recovery

For decades I have wrestled with food. Diet plans, exercise programs, cramming my head full of whatever trendy information about nutrition, biology etc, was available at the moment.This book made it clear to me that processed food producers are shoving toxic foods at us with all the devious deception that tobacco companies applied when they successfully addicted generations of people to cigarettes. The book helped me understand how I became so addicted to processed foods in the first place and what I can do to recover from that addiction. Now I focus my anger and frustration about processed food addiction where it belongs... NOT on myself, but instead on the producers of addictive toxic foods.To all doctors, nutritionists, and fitness trainers: Please purchase and read this book. Your patients and clients need you to understand the origin of - and the appropriate response to - processed food addiction.To all producers of addictive toxic foods: You are now on notice. Your secret is out. Your days of poisoning the masses are numbered. We're on to you, thanks to Joan Ifland.To all people struggling with addiction to processed foods: Check out Joan Ifland's support program online. Food Addiction Reset is the best there is, and it's affordable. The program is the perfect complement to this textbook; it helps me apply the science to my daily life.I don't profit in any way from sharing this information with you. I participate in Joan's program, and it is changing my life.

13 years ago, I was 240lbs heavier...depressed, immobile and overwhelmed with the beginnings of diet-related diseases. I thought by losing weight I was out of the woods, but I was white knuckling my food choices. Moderation was key, so I thought! But I couldn't moderate processed foods of any kind. I went off the rails immediately or slowly, every time. So when I heard the idea that I might be a food addict, I was deeply resentful of this! That is until I found Dr. Ifland's research...I wasn't obese...I was a severe processed food addict! My lifelong obesity was a symptom of my severe addiction to processed foods. What freedom!! Understanding this research and abstaining from all processed foods has completely changed my life, my relationship to food, my body and my health. It is effortless for me to maintain my weight loss now and I'm free from the years of food obsession. Such a gift! I thank God for Dr. Ifland's work every single day of my life.

Honestly, I can't remember how I found Dr. Ifland and her work because I was so deep into the processed foods. The textbook is an eye-opening, thought provoking, science based work. Recovery from processed foods is her passion. The work is easy to read and held many of the answers to the "why's" I have been asking myself for the last 38 years. If after reading this book you still question whether or not processed food like substances contain an addicting chemical that creates cravings and prevents satiation, then I don't know what to tell you. Finally, the truth. Thank you.

I've only read about 1/3 of this book so far. This book is NOT another diet or self-help book. These are the cold, hard, scientific facts about processed foods and how our body (brain primarily) react to them. This is not light- reading, nor is it for the faint-of-heart. You will be SHOCKED to learn about the science behind processed foods addiction. It will challenge much of what you think you know about processed foods. It may even make you angry.

This explains the obesity epidemic around the worldThe foods we mainly eat no longer require physical hunger, only psychological cravingSo we are forever at their mercy, programmed to desire them while they harm our well being

Section III, "Recovery from Processed Food Addiction" (Chapters 23-31) should be mandatory reading for all sponsors in 12 step food programs (OA, FA, FAA, RFA, GSA, etc).

Very scientific, explaining why processed foods are so addicting! I strongly recommend this book!

Wonderful textbook! You will now know why every other ‘diet’ did not work!

Excellent academic book detailing the science of overcoming PFA

I'm learning so much from this book! Very eye opening with lots of research

Ordered a new one and got used.

This seems like a copy of the original book... The text was upside down, top margin cut, and sticker on the original bar code. RmI am returning this item