Freedom From Food Addiction

Food Addiction and The American Diet

We often read about celebrities struggling with large fluctuations in their weight. You are subjected to a barrage of stars promoting fad weight loss diets and supplements.

Books and articles on weight loss are featured in magazines, on television, and on the internet.

Our cultural preoccupation with weight gain and obesity is constantly on display.

Doctors, with little knowledge of nutrition, respond to their patient’s obesity anxiety with platitudes about “diet and exercise.” These pointless comments are universally ignored by exasperated patients who “…have tried everything.”

Poor nutrition and fat accumulation are directly related to most chronic illnesses in the United States. Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, elevated cholesterol), heart disease, sleep apnea, and gastric reflux (GERD), are usually preventable and often reversable by simple dietary changes!

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We are associated with the T.Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies.

How Did We Become Food Addicts?

What has this to do with addiction? Everything! Most Americans have become food addicts. Dr. Joel Fuhrman, in his sentinel book "Eat to Live," states that most people in his practice, including obese people, have never experienced actual hunger. They get stomach pain, headache, confusion, and irritability. These are “withdrawal symptoms”. These symptoms of craving are temporarily “fixed” by repeatedly eating the highly fat, oil, and sugar laden foods which have become readily available only in the past 60 years. The cravings however soon return! Food addiction is typically established in childhood. It gets more intense as we dose ourselves with these injurious and addictive food sources. We just getter fatter and sicker!

Real hunger is associated with mild twinges of discomfort in the throat and neck, as well as in vague abdominal sensations. They are not severe or painful. These natural symptoms tell us that it is time to replenish ourselves with healthy nourishment.

Stomach pain, headache, confusion, and irritability are unnatural withdrawal symptoms from a diet low in nutrient density and fiber, and high in saturated fat (meat, cheese), oils, and refined sugar (sucrose, fructose, corn sweetener).

How do we get from here to there?

The Plant- Based Whole foods program at Dr John’s Nutrition Health will free you

from unnatural cravings. With a little guidance, you will quickly notice results! You may look and feel better within weeks. You will be amazed at how rapidly this transformation commences.

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