How does Processed Food Addiction Compare to Other Addictions?

Diet programs fail in part because they miss the severity of the underlying addiction to processed foods.

Find out how to match treatment to severity of addiction for new success in reversing diet-related diseases.

Learn how to work with clients to build the skills needed to put processed food addiction into remission reliably.

 
Missing the severity of processed food addiction can explain why clients 'fail' to make life-saving changes to their diets. - Joan Ifland

Learn the 8 ways to directly address how  processed food addiction can be more difficult to put into remission than alcohol and drug addiction.

Because processed food addiction starts so young in life, involves so many different substances, is heavily advertised, and readily available, the addiction is very difficult to put into remission. Learn how to teach clients to compare processed food addiction to other addictions. Increase motivation and adherence to recommendations.

You will want to be deeply versed on the severity of processed food addiction as a key element of designing and offering programs of recovery that are comprehensive enough to actually work. One of the greatest challenges in recovery from addiction is to match the level of treatment to the severity of the addiction. Greater numbers of hours of brain retraining are needed for more severe addictions. Lack of appreciation for severity leaves the practitioner in the precarious position of recommending programs that are too simplistic or lightweight to be effective.

Learn how the American Psychiatric Association defines severity and how to gain the foundation to make effective, more comprehensive recommendations to clients.

Most importantly, learn the 8 specific ways to explain to clients the vital nature of undertaking enough hours of recovery to counteract addictive brain programming. 

 

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Sample Lesson Topic:

Understanding Severity #1.

Very Early Age of Onset

Very few practitioners understand the implications of processed food addiction in children, even infants and toddlers. The earlier the onset, the more hours of brain retraining are required.No other addiction has ever taken hold so early in life.

The life-long devastation of compulsive eating can result from early addictive programming of reward neurons in developing brains. Repeat exposure to sugars, fat, and salt in processed foods for young children makes it very difficult to put processed food addiction into remission.

With this course, you will finally be able to show clients the actual seriousness of the addiction to processed foods and persuade them to adhere to the hours of brain retraining needed to put the addiction into remission.

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Learn the next 7 specific ways you can teach clients about the severity of processed food addiction.

  • No longer recommend approaches that are too weak to conquer processed food addiction.
  • Have the confidence to be able to work with clients to design programs that will actually work to counteract the food stimulation engineered by the food industry.
  • Enjoy the security of being able to give clients concrete next steps to build a solid program of protection against food triggers.
  • After your very first lesson, you will be giving your clients more focused effective guidance based on thousands of studies. You will share the joy with clients as they finally make the food choices they've been seeking, sometimes for their entire lives.
  • No more will you endure the grief of clients whose lives were cut short because the severity of their food addiction had been missed and they never got the right guidance.
  • Clients who get the right guidance to build adequate protection against processed food industry neuro-marketing are thrilled to finally have control over their food. Being able to create very small steps that generate success keep clients on track until they finally get the full range of skills they need to reverse and prevent diet-related diseases. Knowing how to address processed food addiction will bring you deep satisfaction where old approaches only brought frustration.
  • Experts such as Robert Lustig, MD, author of the Hacking of the American Mind agree that neuro-marketing business practices have the power to create deep dysfunction in the brain.
  • Practitioners are tired of handing out one diet after another knowing that the client cannot implement the recommendations. Even bariatric surgery has been shown to fail in the face of undiagnosed processed food addiction. By finally understanding how severe the addiction is, practitioners can settle in for a long-term, successful program of recovery for their clients.
  • Recovery from severe addictions has been hampered by discouragement at relapse rates. But new research shows that lapsing is a part of recovery. So now practitioners can lift up their clients and encourage them to keep building.
  • Once you have the vision of a slow building of skills to protect against lapses, your clients will be excited and relieved to finally have an answer to the devastation of repeatedly trying quick fixes that could never have worked.
  • Giving your clients a realistic roadmap to control over their food is like becoming the guide who knows the safe way up the mountain. No more getting lost and wandering off the trail.
  • Practitioners want the best for their clients. No matter how long it takes, practitioners want to hear that clients are gradually gaining better and better control over their food as they successfully recovery from a severe, hidden addiction to processed foods.

Table of Contents

I. The Many Factors Contributing to Severity.

II. Complications of Severity.

III. Severity as a Barrier to Making Diet Improvements.

IV. What to do? Learn how to unpack severity into small steps.

V. Using the severity model to keep clients on track.

VI. How to be a winner through accommodating severity.

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Thanks to the three years spent writing the Processed Food Addiction textbook, Dr. Ifland is able to bring these all-new approaches to beating diet-related diseases to you. 

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