94: Food Addiction—Fact or Fiction?

Nutrition Matters Podcast

Paige Smathers

Weightloss, Eatingdisorder, Kids & Family, Eating, Nutritionist, Nutrition, Health, Dietitian, Health & Fitness, Recovery, Food, Mindfulness

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2017

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered if your struggles with food should or could be characterized by the food addiction label?

Marci Evans, MS, CEDRD, cPT is a renowned eating disorder expert and nutrition therapist. She not only runs a very successful nutrition consulting business but also teaches at two universities and supervises dietitians in their clinical practice. She sat down to discuss food addiction theory and provides practical tips about working through struggles with food. We discuss in depth the science and theory behind food addiction and talk about why this is a controversial issue within the scientific and healthcare community.

Links mentioned in this episode:

Marci’s website: www.marcird.com
One of the studies mentioned about food addiction
Marci’s blog post about food addiction
Paige's online course
Leave a review for the podcast here
More info about the upcoming Mindful Eating Workshop

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1:02.9	Hello and thank you so much for joining me for another episode of Nutrition Matters podcast.
1:07.7	My name is Paige Smathers and I'm excited to bring you my monthly kind of series
1:14.1	that I'm doing, where I'm bringing you some of my older episodes that I've just loved,
1:18.9	that have been amazing episodes. I'm republishing one of those every single month, and today I'm
1:25.7	bringing you one of those about food addiction
1:29.7	with my friend Marcy Evans who's a fantastic dietitian. I'm a huge, huge fan of hers and I just
1:37.2	respect her so much and I love her approach and I love how she explains things. You're going to
1:42.5	love this episode.
1:47.9	So most of you will already know Marcy.
1:52.0	Marcy has come on the podcast a few times at this point.
2:00.5	The most recent time she's appeared on the podcast was in our conversation where we talked about gut health and elimination diets.
2:02.8	So that was episode 81,
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