Mar 8, 2023·edited Mar 8, 2023Liked by Philip Pearlman
I've been talking with my patients/clients about this for the past 5 years. If you want to truly deal with the "root cause" of the modern health epidemic, in individuals or on a societal scale, you have to deal with the emotional component of food addiction and appreciate that the food industry has worked hard over the past several decades to make their foods as addictive as they can for profit. Dr. Joan Ifland is a pioneer in this arena and has been helping people tackle food addiction issues for over 20 years and has a great online program. Dr. Ifland has a talk on her website where she states that the food industry "hijacks neural function for profit". This is a great article and a topic that needs much more attention, although I do disagree with your caveat at the end as the majority of research on addiction shows that a cold-turkey and/or pharmaceutical-assisted approach consistently yields the best results compared to other methods. As an example of how the caveat section may be misleading, there was a large study showing that smokers who switched to vaping to "quit" smoking just switched to vaping instead or did not quit smoking at double the rate of other cessation methods.
The best option in my clinical opinion is to simply show people the truth about the processed food industry, and show those who truly desire change where the resources are if they want to use them. In a free society, individuals must be educated and then make informed decisions for themselves about how to live their life. If our CDC and FDA were worth anything, there would be massive public education campaigns correcting the piss poor nutritional advice we've been given for the past 80 years, which along with the addition of a whole assortment of synthetic chemicals in the food supply (and everywhere else as well) has increased cancer rates, heart disease, diabetes, autoimmune disease, and chronic disease states as a whole.
I've been talking with my patients/clients about this for the past 5 years. If you want to truly deal with the "root cause" of the modern health epidemic, in individuals or on a societal scale, you have to deal with the emotional component of food addiction and appreciate that the food industry has worked hard over the past several decades to make their foods as addictive as they can for profit. Dr. Joan Ifland is a pioneer in this arena and has been helping people tackle food addiction issues for over 20 years and has a great online program. Dr. Ifland has a talk on her website where she states that the food industry "hijacks neural function for profit". This is a great article and a topic that needs much more attention, although I do disagree with your caveat at the end as the majority of research on addiction shows that a cold-turkey and/or pharmaceutical-assisted approach consistently yields the best results compared to other methods. As an example of how the caveat section may be misleading, there was a large study showing that smokers who switched to vaping to "quit" smoking just switched to vaping instead or did not quit smoking at double the rate of other cessation methods.
https://tobacco.ucsf.edu/another-well-done-longitudinal-study-shows-e-cigs-depress-smoking-cessation
The best option in my clinical opinion is to simply show people the truth about the processed food industry, and show those who truly desire change where the resources are if they want to use them. In a free society, individuals must be educated and then make informed decisions for themselves about how to live their life. If our CDC and FDA were worth anything, there would be massive public education campaigns correcting the piss poor nutritional advice we've been given for the past 80 years, which along with the addition of a whole assortment of synthetic chemicals in the food supply (and everywhere else as well) has increased cancer rates, heart disease, diabetes, autoimmune disease, and chronic disease states as a whole.
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