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 ...
Diets aren’t sold with facts; they’re sold with testimonials. And the reason diets are sold this way, is because if you actually knew how little weight you were going to lose on a diet or how hard it would be to maintain your weight loss, you probably wouldn’t even bother. You would think the effort wasn’t worth the reward. But when you’re told that you can easily lose 50 to 100 pounds, with relatively little effort, by changing just one thing (i.e., don’t eat carbs, don’t eat aft...
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 ...
