Dr. Vera Tarman: Overcoming Food Addiction & How She Dropped 100 Pounds and Kept it Off
Abel James Show
Abel James Bascom
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
According to brain scans, refined sugar and artificially intense sweetness is more addictive than cocaine.
If that sounds crazy, consider this: In the early 1900’s, the Average American ate 5 pounds of sugar per year. Pretty reasonable, right?
By 2000, the Average American was eating 150 pounds of sugar per year. That’s 30 times more sugar!
To help us sort it out, we’re here with Dr. Vera Tarman, the author of Food Junkies: Recovery from Food Addiction. She dropped a 100 pounds and kept it off for over 12 years, and counting.
Dr. Tarman is the Medical Director of one of Canada’s largest treatment centers for substance abuse, and she’s spearheaded two unique programs for food addiction.
And on this show with Dr. Vera Tarman, we’re chatting about:
- How she dropped 100 pounds... and kept it off
- Overcoming food addiction
- Connection between alcoholism and anorexia
- How the food industry engineers food to be as addictive as possible
- And tons more…
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, this is Abel James and thanks so much for joining us on the Fat Burning Man |
| 0:05.6 | Show where we talk about real food and real results. |
| 0:09.9 | Have you heard this one before? |
| 0:11.8 | According to brain scans, sugar is more addictive than cocaine. |
| 0:16.6 | Now I know people who have heard of this. |
| 0:19.1 | I love to bicker about it. |
| 0:21.6 | But you know, the truth be told, I've never had cocaine or tried it or anything like |
| 0:26.2 | that, but I have had sugar and I can tell you that that cracks me out. |
| 0:30.3 | I have yet to meet a single human being who isn't totally affected by sugar, usually |
| 0:36.8 | in a positive way, right away, and then totally negative after that. |
| 0:42.0 | Straight downhill. |
| 0:43.2 | Just think about a kid and the crazy amount of energy they have for a little while and |
| 0:47.2 | then the tantrum and the crash. |
| 0:49.4 | Why do you think that would ever change as we age? |
| 0:51.6 | It doesn't. |
| 0:52.6 | The nubs have tantrums too, but anyway, once you kick sugar, your whole life and outlook |
| 0:58.9 | on life can change for the better, for good. |
| 1:02.4 | And you can kick some certain foods that you know are bad for you. |
| 1:06.0 | Your trigger foods out for good. |
| 1:07.8 | And when you do, oh man, does it serve you? |
| 1:10.1 | So that's what today's show is about and I can't think of a better person to talk to |
| 1:14.6 | than Dr. Vera Tarmann. |
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