Episode 26: Dr. Joan Ifland

<p>In Today’s episode, Clarissa and Molly speak with Dr. Joan Ifland. Joan Ifland is a researcher and educator in the field of food addiction and allergies. She was the founder in 1996 of The Sugars and Flours Project of Houston which provides education about food reactions. In 2007, she founded the Refined Food Addiction (ReFA) Research Foundation which is dedicated to facilitating the flow of information between clinicians and researchers. She is the lead author of the first academically published description of food addiction in humans. She is a co-founder of the Society of Food Addiction Professionals.</p> <p>Dr. Ifland's approach to recovery from stubborn diet-related diseases is clear: address food addiction as the driver of over-consumption of harmful processed foods</p> <p>Since 1996, Dr. Ifland has helped people recover from diet-related diseases by focusing on addiction to processed foods. Through the adaptation of drug and alcohol addiction recovery methods, Dr. Ifland gives practitioners and clients new insights into why food addiction recovery can generate extraordinary health outcomes.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>In this episode:</strong></span></p> <p>Dr. Ifland discusses what inspired her to write the textbook, Processed Food Addiction: Foundations, Assessment, and Recovery</p> <p>She makes it clear that she is NOT a clinician, she is a researcher and peer-support specialist. The Addiction Reset Community (ARC) is a peer support community and relies on Mirror Neurons to be effective. She also cautions, the ARC is NOT a stand-alone answer</p> <p>How Big Food uses our biological wiring against us with the 5 A’s: Advertising, Availability, Affordability, Addictive substances in the product, Age of Onset taken from Big Tobacco</p> <p>We talk about the research around fasting and how you can get addicted to the starvation “high”</p> <p>What she would say to the eating disorder professionals who do not believe in Processed Food Addiction</p> <p>How she guides people through