Hidden
Diet-Related
Mental Illness
Can Sabotage Health
New research shows that diet-related mental illness can prevent recovery from other diet-related diseases. Resolving diet-related mental illnesses opens the door to stopping the progression of other diet-related diseases. -Joan Ifland
Learn how to identify hidden mental illness.
Get the specific skills needed to break through subtle mental illnesses and get the focus needed to make complex diet changes.
Missing the role of diet-induced mental illness leaves clients frustrated at their inability to help themselves.
Uncover 7 Hidden Diet-Related Mental Illnesses and find out how they are preventing clients from making vital changes to their diets.
All health practitioners have experienced the painful distress of making one diet recommendation after another to clients who do not change. Clients want to change. They agree that they have to change the way they eat or dire consequences will result. They promise earnestly to change. But, week after week they come back without improvement. Or, they improve for a short period and then fall back into old diet habits with the return of serious diet-related diseases. Or, they never come back at all.
Are you tired of watching this scenario unfold with client after client?
Brain imaging technology and laboratory studies have revealed in stunning detail the reasons that clients cannot adhere to vital diet recommendations. The answer is that the vast quantities of processed foods consumed in most westernized cultures can extensively alter brain function and prevent good diet decisions. Cognitive impairment, stress, anxiety, depression, brain fog, aggressive behavior, and intense cravings are all associated with the chronic consumption of processed foods.
Tragically, these brain alterations can prevent clients from making the very diet changes needed to restore the consistent mental capabilities needed to arrest the progression of other diet-related diseases.
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Breaking Through Mental Confusion #1. Brain fog
Most people do not know they have brain fog because it sets in gradually over years. Even if a client recognizes that they feel hazy, they are likely to attribute it to old age and believe that there is nothing they can do about it. The tragedy is that brain fog can make it almost impossible for a client to think through the sometime complicated steps required to buy and prepare non-addictive food. The good news is that brain fog has been shown to be linked to processed foods. Release from brain fog is an early benefit of non-addictive eating.
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Learn the next 6 specific actions you can take to uncover the mental blocks that keep your clients from healing their diet-related diseases.
- You can identify and resolve hidden mental illnesses that are keeping your clients from resolving diet-related diseases.
- Image being able to explain to your clients in just a few minutes how processed foods create mental deficits that block their ability to change their diets and improve health.
- After your first class, you will know why your clients haven't been able to make diet changes.You will be empowered to not only move forward on reversing diet-related disease, but also alleviate a range of mental problems.
- You're in your practice giving hope to clients who may have suffered from emotional and mental distress for their whole lives.Giving clients specific insider tips to implementing small but meaningful tips will earn their gratitude.
- For the rest of your career, clients will be thanking you for getting to the root cause of their inability to change their diet and getting the bonus of healthy positive thoughts and feelings.
- Dr. Ifland has spoken to rave reviews about processed food addiction and mental health. Practitioners appreciate finally understanding the link between processed foods and mental health.
- Compared to the side effects of pharmaceuticals, improving diet to improve mental clarity is a miracle.
- Your clients may wonder why you didn't tell them about this approach to mental health, but you can assure them that the Processed Food Addiction textbook only came out in 2018. They're among the very first people to benefit from this new knowledge. You brought the answer to them quickly as a very responsible practitioner.
- Release from brain fog generally occurs within four days of eliminating processed foods. Give your clients both hope and resolve for completing the four-day withdrawal process.
- Giving a discouraged, sinking client the good news about processed foods is like letting fresh air into a stuffy room. Life is worth living.
- Practitioners train for years and years with the one desire to heal clients. You can realize that dream today.
Table of Contents
I. Processed Foods and Mental Illness: The evidence for causality.
II. Specific Mental Challenges and how they interfere with the ability to make diet improvements.
III. Learn about the many different ways to restore brain health. Match difficulty of method with mental capabilities.
IV. What to do? Recognize cognitive impairment and give very short, very simple instructions.
V. Use positive reinforcement and re-framing to counteract discouragement at lapsing.
VI. Recruiting friends and family to help.
CALL TO ACTION
Key Studies
REFERENCES
Addicott, M. A. (2014). Caffeine Use Disorder: A Review of the Evidence and Future Implications. Curr Addict Rep, 1(3), 186-192. doi:10.1007/s40429-014-0024-9
Cocores, J. A., & Gold, M. S. (2009). The Salted Food Addiction Hypothesis may explain overeating and the obesity epidemic. Med Hypotheses, 73(6), 892-899. doi:S0306-9877(09)00484-8 [pii]
Ifland, J. R., Marcus, M. T., &
Thanks to three years spent writing the Processed Food Addiction textbook, Dr. Ifland is able to bring you fresh new approaches to beating diet-related diseases.
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