Interviewed by Cynthia Myers-Morrison, EdD, FAP, SUGAR® C&L, HMA Specialist Annica Strandberg – Schmidt, Sugaraddiction Therapist, HAM certificated by Bitten Jonsson, SUGAR licensed and certificated, author of “Små Sockerbomber och Vuxna Barn”, YouTuber on Annica Strandberg – Schmidt.

Last year she released her book “Små Sockerbomber och Vuxna Barn” (transl. “Small Sugarbombs and Adult Children”) where she gives knowledge about Sugaraddiction and hands on advice how to make changes related to food together with your children, and also about parenting and being a parent and recovering sugaraddict. Her hope is to provide support for parents so they can make the change they themselves are ready to do and find ways to support young people that wants to make changes and live a healthy life.

Annica lives on a dairy farm in the western part of Sweden together with her husband and children. She has a lot of experience working with children and parents related to sugaraddiction and has been working in the field for 11 years this year. She has a recovery journey of her own and as she entered recovery her children were small, which made her do all the research on children and food, parenting and recovery that ended up with her writing the book. Today her three children are aged 19, 17 and 12. Some of the questions answered during this interview are: 1. How do I know if my child is sensitive to food (a sugar addict)? 2. Do we diagnose children as sugar addicts/food addicts? 3. Is it important, or even possible, to get children totally off sugar and flour? 4. How do I make the changes regarding food? What steps are beneficial? 5. What is the most challenging in the process of making the changes? 6. Is changing the food only about the food?

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