Medical doctor and addictions recovery specialist Dr. Vera Tarman is our guest today in Episode 902 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show.”
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The concept of addiction is abundantly real in the minds of most people when it comes to drugs, alcohol and tobacco. But for some reason many people have a difficult time grasping that there could be any such thing as food addiction. For Dr. Vera Tarman, MD, she has seen this struggle firsthand in so many patients and has been seeking to help them overcome their strong desires for consuming refined carbohydrates. Her website “Addictions Unplugged” has been a resource of encouragement for many years as we previously shared an interview with Dr. Tarman in Episode 607. Now she’s back in 2014 with a new book sharing her wisdom and knowledge about this subject entitled Food Junkies: The Truth About Food Addiction.
Listen in to hear Jimmy and Dr. Tarman discuss how to know if you’re a food addict, whether food addiction is recognized as a disease, why carbohydrates are the key focus of battling food addiction, how some people never get rid of the disordered eating behaviors even after weight loss, and much more! If you or someone you know has trouble with food addiction, then this is a must-listen podcast.
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– Dr. Tarman on YouTube
– RELATED PODCAST: The LLVLC Show #607: Dr. Vera Tarman Helps People Fight Their Addiction To Carbohydrates
I say this with all the love and admiration in my heart for you and your podcast Jimmy.
Please don’t make the assumption you know or understand the condition of the alcoholic brain, spirit/soul, and body unless you, yourself are alcoholic.
You have to eat food to survive. Alcohol addiction is completely different. It isn’t just an addiction to sugar. It is a disease of the mind, the body and the soul. The alcoholic is mentally sick as well as spiritually sick. The only known recovery for the hopeless alcoholic is a complete spiritual experience and/or awakening as a result of working the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous followed by complete abstinence.
We advocate working the 12 steps. We don’t advocate eating sugar to the detriment of your health. If it helps an alcoholic to stay sober until such time as they have a spiritual experience, and find their path to recovery we are grateful.
We die from this disease. The only way to stay sober is to never consume alcohol again.
As a woman in recovery, please understand that AA has provided me with a solution, when no other solution worked. It has brought me closer to my Creator, my Father and taught me how to live life without alcohol.
Again, I don’t care how many degrees you have behind your name, how many people you have counseled, unless you are alcoholic and have been hopeless, and determined there is no way out for you but death, you really don’t know what the solution is. So, please do not lump together the addiction of sugar and food with the disease of alcoholism. They do not exist as the same problem with the same prescription for a solution.
I ask this with gratitude for the all the experience, strength and hope you have given all of us through your relentless commitment to providing a timeless resource by publishing your success with overcoming your own struggles with obesity and food addiction.
No disrespect to people who deal with alcoholism intended. But the pull of sugar is indeed destructive to the core. Addiction to sugary foods may be a slower destruction, but the end result is futility. But thank you for sharing your perspective with this subject matter.
Listening to this episode, Dr. Tarman talks briefly about food addiction in comparison with cigarettes. I read the book Sugar Blues by William Dufty over the summer and one of the topics he discusses is the idea of cigarette addiction. I just want to share what he revealed. Tobaccos that are completely air-dried, the way American Indians have done for centuries, exhausts all the naturally occurring sugars from the leaves of the tobacco, resulting in a product that is used often for religious rituals. Indians have traditionally smoked air-dried tobacco. When farmers began growing tobacco for commercial use, the drying process was shortened and some if not much of the sugars were still intact. Therefore, a more addictive result from the sugar, not the tobacco psychoactives. When the tobacco industry got the hint that the tobacco was causing addiction, the leaves were then soaked in bourbon or other alcohols to up the sugar content. Pipe tobaccos too. Just food for thought.
Chapter Title: Reach For a Lucky Instead of a Sweet?
The chapter opens:
The biggest sugar customer in this country is the food processing industry. That figures. Who is number two and trying harder? Would you believe, the tobacco industry?…
One American tobacco industry authority told Medical World News in March 1973, that an average of 5 percent sugar is aded to cigarettes, up to 20 percent in cigars and as much as 40 percent in pipe tobacco, mostly in the form of molasses and such.
Smoking is a sugar addiction! Who knew?