Dr. Vera Tarman: Food Junkies, The Truth About Food Addiction.
Underground Wellness Radio
Sean Croxton
4.6 • 526 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2014
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Vera Tarman — author of Food Junkies: The Truth About Food Addiction — returns to the podcast to share her incredible story of food, drug, and alcohol addictions.
Here’s what we talked about:
2:50 – Dr. Tarman’s personal story of food, drug and alcohol addictions and hitting rock bottom.
17:58 – What food addiction really looks like.
19:53 – The science and reality behind food addiction.
22:34 – The addiction continuum and why food addiction is so hard to diagnose.
26:48 – Food addiction vs. addictive food. Does dieting = food addiction?
28:45 – The emotional side of food addiction and eating disorders.
31:30 – The brain of a food addict.
36:41 – Antidepressants, neurotransmitters and your brain.
39:00 – Insights into the food industry, the “bliss spot” and why you don’t know about any of it.
40:46 – Dr. Tarman’s thoughts on trigger foods and food addiction programs.
47:58 – Ideas and resources about elimination, treatment, substitution and individualized healing.
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| 0:00.0 | It's episode 309 of Underground Wellness Radio. |
| 0:03.5 | Here's what's coming up. If I had to pick all of my addictions, I'd probably say it's between alcohol and food. I think it's almost like an alcoholic level. I have all sorts of different levels of what they look like. Same with food addicts. It could be the food you next to you that loves food, or it could be the person who's actually anorexic. |
| 0:21.6 | So I think that you wouldn't be obsessing about your calories if it was just Brussels sprouts |
| 0:25.6 | and broccoli. |
| 0:26.6 | Like I don't think you would. |
| 0:27.6 | You would just thought because you're full. |
| 0:29.6 | When the food becomes enticing, these kinds of questions start to have relevance. |
| 0:35.6 | Here we go. |
| 0:46.6 | Yo, what's up, y'all? |
| 0:48.2 | Welcome back to Underground Wellness Radio, |
| 0:50.3 | brought to you by Underground Wellness.com. |
| 0:51.8 | Thanks so much for tuning. |
| 0:56.9 | And I know I say this a lot. I've said it a few times this year. |
| 1:05.8 | But I think that this interview right here is the best interview of the entire year. I've been so busy. |
| 1:12.0 | We were so busy with the digestion sessions. There was so much stuff going on. And I would prepare for the shows. |
| 1:16.4 | I would read the book and take all the notes and do all that stuff. But I haven't, I didn't have the opportunity or the time to do like the deep preparation that I was used to doing before we got |
| 1:24.2 | tied up with the project. And now that the digestion sessions are over, like I really got deep into Dr. |
| 1:31.4 | Tarman's book on food addiction. |
| 1:33.1 | It's called Food Junkies. |
| 1:34.3 | And we just had a really, really good conversation about her book and her story. |
| 1:41.3 | She has such an incredible story. |
| 1:42.8 | I wish she would have started off the book |
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