Dr. Vera Tarman is medical director of Renascent Treatment Center Toronto and a confessed food addict. In her book, Food Junkies, she outlines her controversial approach to food addiction. Tarman advocates abstinence from trigger foods such as sugar, fat, salt, flour and caffeine.
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‘Like many university students, I had an obsession with weight and food. Today, as a physician, I can see my favourite foods were like drugs.’ Click Here to read this article written by Dr. … [Read more...] about Addicted to food
Canada AM – Food Junkies
Join Dr Vera Tarman on Canada AM to hear about her new book 'Food Junkies', January 2015. Great summary on the difference between food addiction, eating disorder and comfort over eating. Why are the rates of obesity sky high? Why are diets so hard to stay on? Understand why diets don't work and how … [Read more...] about Canada AM – Food Junkies
Food Addiction: It’s Not An Eating Disorder
The Fix Q&A with Vera Tarman about her book Food Junkies: The Truth About Food Addiction.
“I drink pop all the time. It’s like I’m addicted to pop now,” I remember someone telling me after I got sober almost 10 years ago. She said that I, too, would start drinking soda … [Read more...] about Food Addiction: It’s Not An Eating Disorder
Epilogue: A Happy Ending, One Day at a Time
Food Junkies: The Truth about Food Addiction Printed in The Star under Health & Wellness "Epilogue: A Happy Ending, One Day at a Time In the spring of 2013, the struggle with food was back. Did I really think it had gone away? The impact was startling. I looked at the tablespoon … [Read more...] about Epilogue: A Happy Ending, One Day at a Time
There Is More to Obesity Than ‘Calories In, Calories Out’
Bill Bogart author "Off The Street: Legalizing Drugs", Prof Law U of Windsor reviews "Food Junkies" by Dr. Vera Tarman.
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