Well, welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.

Today we have a very important topic to discuss with you that affects many families in Minnesota

and also throughout the United States.

An interesting study published in the Journal of American Association of Psychiatry found that one in eight American adults now meet the

diagnostic criteria for an alcohol use disorder. Well, what does that mean? Alcohol use disorder.

It means alcoholism. So one in eight adults are now considered suffering from alcoholism.

That's up about 2% at least, because the last time I talked about this, it was 1 in 10.

So this study went on to say that there has been a 49% increase rate of alcoholism in the first 10 years of the 2000.

So between 2000 and 2010, there was a 49% increase.

It's a huge increase.

So I think we have to ask the question, why?

Why has there been such an increased rate of addiction?

What is really behind this outrageous increase of alcoholism?

You know, some of the experts, some of the researchers say that it is because people are eating more sugar.

Well, that makes sense. And we'll get more into that later in the show. Yes. And then there are some people, some experts that say that sugar

is actually what they consider a gateway drug into alcoholism. It's kind of interesting, isn't it, to think of us?

So I will assume we will be seeing an increased number of those seeking treatment to gain sobriety.

So today we want to help you understand how eating real food in balance can support your efforts

to maintain your recovery and sobriety.

You know, I'm pretty sure that this information will be new for many of you, perhaps even a new concept.

So I'm Darlene Kavist, I'm a certified nutrition specialist, licensed in the state of Minnesota since 1996.

And after all these years, I am still odd by the help that real food nutrition can give people

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