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	Food Junkies: The Truth About Food Addiction by Vera Tarman (Goodreads Author), Phillip Werdell (With) 3.97 avg rating — 452 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Rewire Your Food-Addicted Brain: Fight Cravings and Break Free from a High-Sugar, Ultra-Processed Diet Using Neuroscience by Claire Wilcox (Goodreads Author), Clarissa Kennedy (foreword), Molly Painschab (foreword) 4.04 avg rating — 46 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Food Junkies Podcast Ep. 253: Clinician’s Corner – From Rules to Guardrails: Rewriting the Manual for Recovery

Molly and Clarissa get real about the spoken and unspoken “rules” we inherit—from family, culture, religion, peers, and recovery spaces—and how those rules can quietly run our lives. They explore […]

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Vera Tarman wrote a new blog post Food Junkies Podcast Ep. 252: Dr. Cate Shanahan Dr. Vera Tarman sits down with Dr. Cate Shanahan, family physician, nutrition consultant, and author of Deep Nutrition and Dark Calories, to discuss h Read more of this blog post »
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“From food addiction to food serenity - freedom tastes great!”
― Vera Tarman, Food Junkies: The Truth About Food Addiction

tags: addiction, food-addiction, medicine

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“Today I say am an addict. A respectable addict, of course. Not like the desperate addicts who have cashed in their mortgage... After all, my drug is cheap, the cheapest of all drugs, and therefore the most pernicious... And my drug is everywhere I look: in the drive-through gas station's convenience store, in the supermarket, on the lusciously displayed menu of an exclusive restaurant.”
― Vera Tarman, Food Junkies: The Truth About Food Addiction

tags: food-addiction

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“FAA Basic Food Plan Breakfast Lunch Dinner MA (Metabolic Adjustment) (4 hrs. after breakfast) (5 hrs. after lunch) (4 hrs. after dinner) 1 Protein 1 Protein 1 Protein 1 Dairy or 2 oz. Protein 1 Dairy 1 Cooked Vegetable 1 Cooked Vegetable 1 Fruit 1 Fruit 1 Fresh Vegetable 1 Fresh Vegetable 1 Grain or Starchy Vegetable ½ Daily Oil 1 Grain or Starchy Vegetable Men: Add 1 Fruit or 1 Grain, or 1 Starchy Vegetable ½ Daily Oil”
― Vera Tarman, Food Junkies: The Truth About Food Addiction

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