Food Junkies: Recovery from Food Addiction by Vera Tarman (English) Paperback Bo

Description: Food Junkies by Vera Tarman Drawing on her experience in addictions treatment, and many personal stories of recovery, Dr. Vera Tarman offers practical advice for people struggling with problems of overeating, binge eating, anorexia, and bulimia. Food Junkies, now in its second edition, is a friendly and informative guide on the road to food serenity. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A fact-filled guide to coping with compulsive overeating problems by an experienced addictions doctor who draws on many patients stories of recovery.Overeating, binge eating, obesity, anorexia, and bulimia — Food Junkies tackles the complex, poorly understood issue of food addiction from the perspective of a medical researcher and dozens of survivors. What exactly is food addiction? Is it possible to draw a hard line between indulging cravings for "comfort food" and engaging in substance abuse? For people struggling with food addictions, recognizing their condition remains a frustrating battle.This revised second edition contains the latest research as well as practical strategies for people facing the complicated challenges of eating disorders and addictions, offering an affirming and manageable path to healthy and sustainable habits. Author Biography Vera Tarman, MD, MSc, FCFP, ABAM, is a specialist in addiction medicine. She is the medical director of Renascent, an addictions treatment centre. Vera lives in Toronto. Table of Contents Preface to the Second EditionThis Book, Bite Size: Our Message to You1. Eating, Eating, Eating: What Is the Problem with Me?2. I Just Like to Eat! Eating and Overeating3. Sugar Makes Me Happy!4. So What Exactly Is Food Addiction?5. Are You a Food Addict?6. The Food Fights: Addiction or Eating Disorder?7. The Tragic Story of a Food Addict8. Stages if Fiid Addiction9. Food Addiction: The Great Saboteur10. For the Anorexic11. Hitting Bottom: I Need Help!12. What Do I Do Now?13. First Things First: Stopping the Food14. Recovery in the Community15. Switching Addictions16. Freedom Tastes Great! Finding Food SecurityEpilogue: A Happy Ending, One Day at a TimeAcknowledgementsNotesBibliographyIndex Review Are you one of those people who thinks food addiction isnt real? Then you might be what Dr. Vera Tarman describes in her new book as a food junkie! I was addicted to sugar and other processed carbohydrates over a decade ago and found my way back to health and recovery thanks to some basic lifestyle changes that made me whole again. Dr. Tarman walks you through all the necessary steps to make that happen for you, too. Addiction is real, but its not inevitable. Grab back control of your health now! * Jimmy Moore, author of Cholesterol Clarity and Keto Clarity *For all those who have struggled with weight loss and failed, here is a wise book that applies the addiction model to food. Tarman tackles the neurobiology of pleasure and the epidemic of obesity, and makes sense of both. With a no-nonsense approach, Tarman offers a thoughtful, groundbreaking exploration of a subject that plagues the majority of readers. * Ann Dowsett Johnston, author of Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol *This book will help many people with every kind of eating disorder — they all start with the same premise.We who eat too much, too often, and who find ourselves fat, miserable, bulimic, unhealthy, or just wanting to lose 20 pounds before Christmas are in the same boat. Dr. Tarmans book shows how many ways there are to get help and get healed. My own solution — through the twelve steps of GSA — presents the approach that has saved my life — that we — all of us, just alcoholics — are allergic to sugar, grains, flour, wheat, and corn — yes, all grains! — the same ingredients that are in alcohol. Avoiding these foods and eating three weighed meals a day and nothing in between can lead you to find the last house on the block, which is a mansion! * Judy Collins, singer, songwriter, and author of Cravings: How I Conquered Food *Dr. Vera Tarman aptly takes the science of sugar addiction and draws a convincing clinical profile of the sugar/food addiction syndrome. With plenty of clinical scenarios, Dr. Tarman illustrates and explains the various stages of food addiction. She then shows how food addiction recovery is possible and sustainable in the long term. Food Junkies is a must-read for patients, students and clinicians interested in addiction medicine and/or obesity management. * Dr. Nicole Avena, research scientist and assistant professor at Princeton University and Mount Sinai School of Medicine and author of Why Diets Fail: Because We are Addicted to Sugar *Dr. Vera Tarman brings together in this book knowledge of physiology and the brain, experience of treatment for addiction and sensitivity to the nature of food addiction. She takes us through the process of understanding, enlightenment, and finally hope. * Esther Helga Guðmundsdóttir, Director of INFACT International School for Food Addiction Counselling and Treatment *As someone who regularly treat patients suffering from food addiction and someone who has recovered from it, Dr. Tarman is the quintessential expert on food addiction. This book is a must-read for anyone struggling with a food addiction. * Chef A.J., author of The Secrets to Ultimate Weight Loss. * Review Quote This book will help many people with every kind of eating disorder -- they all start with the same premise.We who eat too much, too often, and who find ourselves fat, miserable, bulimic, unhealthy, or just wanting to lose 20 pounds before Christmas are in the same boat. Dr. Tarmans book shows how many ways there are to get help and get healed. My own solution -- through the twelve steps of GSA -- presents the approach that has saved my life -- that we -- all of us, just alcoholics -- are allergic to sugar, grains, flour, wheat, and corn -- yes, all grains! -- the same ingredients that are in alcohol. Avoiding these foods and eating three weighed meals a day and nothing in between can lead you to find the last house on the block, which is a mansion! Feature Updated and expanded second edition of the bestselling guide to recognizing, managing, and recovering from eating disorders First edition sold over 6,000 copies There is a growing medical consensus that food addiction can be a substance abuse problem, whose treatment can require skilled support Sufferers of compulsive eating disorders have coped with social stigma on top of their addiction. This book reverses the equation and teaches how both stigma and addiction are part of the problem, and how to overcome them A friendly guide to coping with familiar pitfalls of unhealthy eating habits that shade into substance abuse Combines authoritative advice from an experienced addictions treatment doctor and the personal stories of people struggling with eating disorders Author is the medical director of Renascent, an addictions treatment centre Excerpt from Book PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION Since I wrote the first edition of Food Junkies in 2014, much has changed -- and little has changed. This new edition includes the most promising current research and details the latest advances in clinical practices and treatments, including my own. We may still have a long way to go, but giant steps have been taken in some areas. And many of the people I interviewed earlier have successfully navigated the minefields of food sobriety. I also bring their stories up to date.First, the hopeful news: In the last four years, our awareness of how specific foods (such as sugar) ensnare both the hormonal appetite regulators and the reward circuitry of the brain has grown exponentially. Studies highlighting how sugar can be addictive are cited continually in the media.Growing numbers of consumer groups are aghast at how the food industry is manipulating our appetites for its own profit. Calls to regulate the food industry and legislate healthy eating are multiplying. There are Internet chat groups, summits, cookbooks, and public lectures offering to help people quit sugar and other addictive foods. The tipping point of awareness that we need to stem the tide of addictive foods is approaching.While we agree that some foods, such as sugar, are addictive, the bad news is that we are loath to recognize the dynamic of addiction that other foods ignite. Even clinicians scoff at this biological imperative, unwilling to identify the withdrawal and lack of choice that eating some foods engender. This unwillingness means that diagnosis, research, and funding of treatment of food addiction continues to flounder. When it comes to acknowledging the syndrome of food addiction, we remain in the dark ages.I am unable to be objective about food addiction. I have struggled with this disease for decades, so, although my purpose in this book is to present a fact-based examination of food addiction, I can hardly be neutral.Many of us have struggled to control our addiction through diet pills, diet doctors, and even diet candy. We have spent thousands of dollars on Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig, therapists and psychiatrists, weight-loss vitamins and herbs. We have ingested diuretics, laxatives, and other substances to purge ourselves of extra food. We have exercised hours each day, so obsessively that we eliminated the rest and relaxation most people enjoy on weekends and vacations.Our eating has been out of control; weve often ingested enough calories in an hour to fuel a two-hundred-pound male for days. We have repeatedly tried, and failed, to tame our appetites. We have enlisted people -- friends, family, even professionals -- to help us by shaming, blaming, bribing, nagging, cajoling, ignoring, encouraging, comforting, and punishing.A food addict myself, I am on a passionate mission to present vital information to the many individuals who struggle with unwanted eating behaviours. I want to give readers a better understanding of the continuum that begins with food compulsions and ends with full-blown addiction.For years, food addicts of all types -- including myself -- tried to talk about this phenomenon, but all too often our disclosures were met with light-hearted dismissals (Oh, everyone eats a little too much sometimes) or blunt skepticism (Its not a disease, you know; you just eat too much). Now that obesity, one of the hallmark symptoms of food addiction, has grown to epidemic proportions, scientists and medical professionals are no longer laughing. Instead, they are taking a closer look at what is really going on in the bodies and brains of those of us who struggle with our food intake. In Food Junkies, I present this information about the addictive nature of food in a format that can be understood by patients, clinicians, and, most importantly, the general public. And I introduce you to people who are struggling with this disease and tell their stories -- their tragedies and victories -- which have been for so long silenced, scoffed, scorned.I dont want the book to be drily academic, the sort written by experts dispensing prescriptive advice. Though you will find helpful information here, much of it drawn from authoritative studies, the book also contains very personal stories -- moving accounts full of feeling and struggle. Given my history as both a food addict and a clinician in the addiction field, I am well situated to present this information in an authentic, accessible way. As yet, there have been no books like mine, written by an author who has both experienced food addiction and its recovery and who is also equipped to speak from the authoritative stance of a medical clinician in the field.In this book you will meet men and women suffering from food compulsions and addictions as well as those who have recovered. You will also meet people who are not addicted to food, but who have a tendency to overeat. Although their names have been changed, they are all real people whom I have met in my practice. You will meet Mary, who made the decision to lose weight when her scale indicated that she weighed more than two hundred pounds. She has managed to keep her weight off for many years. And youll meet Janet, who insists that her lack of willpower is her real problem; she has lost weight and kept it off, but she is only able to do so as long as she sticks to her diet. And youll also meet Ellen, who, despite great willpower, simply cannot control her bingeing at night. She worries that she might be a food addict.You will be introduced to Laura, who is addicted to alcohol as well as food. While she no longer drinks, she simply cannot stop eating. As badly as she wants to stop, her cravings for food are even stronger than her cravings for alcohol. Youll learn about Lawrence, a morbidly obese food addict, whose death marks the inevitable conclusion of this disease when left untreated. And youll meet Ruthann, whose primary addiction is undereating. Yes, I believe that even anorexics suffer from a kind of food addiction. Ruthann learns to control her anorexia by applying the same approaches I present for food addicts who overeat to her undereating patterns. Description for Sales People Updated and expanded second edition of the bestselling guide to recognizing, managing, and recovering from eating disorders First edition sold over 6,000 copies There is a growing medical consensus that food addiction can be a substance abuse problem, whose treatment can require skilled support Sufferers of compulsive eating disorders have coped with social stigma on top of their addiction. This book reverses the equation and teaches how both stigma and addiction are part of the problem, and how to overcome them A friendly guide to coping with familiar pitfalls of unhealthy eating habits that shade into substance abuse Combines authoritative advice from an experienced addictions treatment doctor and the personal stories of people struggling with eating disorders Author is the medical director of Renascent, an addictions treatment centre Details ISBN1459741978 Author Vera Tarman Short Title FOOD JUNKIES 2/E Pages 280 Language English Edition 2nd ISBN-10 1459741978 ISBN-13 9781459741973 Format Paperback Year 2019 Subtitle Recovery from Food Addiction Imprint Dundurn Group Ltd Place of Publication Toronto Country of Publication Canada Illustrations notes; Bibliography UK Release Date 2019-03-14 Publication Date 2019-03-14 Publisher Dundurn Group Ltd Edition Description 2nd New edition Replaces 9781459728592 Alternative 9781459741980 DEWEY 616.8526 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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