Food addiction is a somewhat controversial topic. Can you really be “addicted” to something necessary for life (i.e., food, air, water)? Based upon the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS), the technical answer is, yes. In today’s episode, The Nutrition Grouch asks whether the identification of food addiction is helpful to clients and practitioners in losing weight or whether it provides a “permission structure” enabling ...
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Food addiction is a somewhat controversial topic. Can you really be “addicted” to something necessary for life (i.e., food, air, water)? Based upon the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS), the technical answer is, yes. In today’s episode, The Nutrition Grouch asks whether the identification of food addiction is helpful to clients and practitioners in losing weight or whether it provides a “permission structure” enabling ...
29: Why I am Transitioning from Nutrition to Wellness
The Nutrition Grouch
54 minutes
1 year ago
29: Why I am Transitioning from Nutrition to Wellness
Good nutrition is not the same as wellness. In fact, nutrition is only a subset of a subset of wellness. And yet, if you listen to many of the experts in the field, you'd think that good nutrition is the be all, end all, of health. In today's episode the Nutrition Grouch talks about how he used to think that "wellness" was just kind of a fluffy, meaningless, shallow term. And he also chronicles how he drank the diet and exercise Kool Aid starting as a high school student, t...
The Nutrition Grouch
Food addiction is a somewhat controversial topic. Can you really be “addicted” to something necessary for life (i.e., food, air, water)? Based upon the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS), the technical answer is, yes. In today’s episode, The Nutrition Grouch asks whether the identification of food addiction is helpful to clients and practitioners in losing weight or whether it provides a “permission structure” enabling ...