FOOD ADDICTION

Advocating widespread acceptance of food addiction as a disease of substance

abuse and the availability of effective, abstinence-based solutions.

Helping to identify and expand knowledge about food addiction.

Providing professional and public education about food addiction as a
treatable chemical dependency to physicians, dietitians, therapists,
counselors and allied health professionals, internationally.

Offering information about promising new practices for the treatment of food addiction.

Supplying resources for those who may be food addicted. Creating a forum for
the development and dissemination of innovative and effective public
health strategies related to the prevention, mitigation and
treatment of food addiction.

For Someone With Untreated Food Addiction, Life Is Filled With

Questions:

Why can’t I stop eating?

Why can’t I lose weight?

Why do I feel so driven to eat things I don’t even want?

How can I find someone to help me?

At the Food Addiction Institute, we have the answers to these
questions! There is hope and recovery is possible. To begin, it’s
important to understand what food addiction is.

Food addiction is a physical and emotional addiction to certain food
substances which is similar to drug and alcohol addiction. When
food addicts eat foods they are physically addicted to, a
biochemical process is triggered in their bodies that causes them to
crave more and more of this food. No amount of dieting or willpower
can help to reduce these cravings.

Food addicts are not weak or lacking willpower. Instead, there is a
physiological process taking place within their bodies that has
nothing to do with willpower. In the same way that someone who has
a cold cannot simply will that cold to go away, a food addict is not
able to think themselves thin or stop themselves from craving
certain foods.

In order to answer these questions and find recovery, food addicts need
the help of trained professionals and peer support groups so they
can find ways to put their disease of food addiction into remission.

In the same way that alcoholics and drug addicts must abstain from
their addictive behaviors and food substances, food addicts need to
discover and abstain from the foods that cause a biochemical
reaction in their brains.

If you are a food addict who has yet to find recovery, please click on
the For Food Addict’s pull down menu. If you are a professional
who is interested in more information about food addiction to help
your clients or patients, please click on the For Professional’s
pull down menu.