The food you can’t say “No” to

But you are the only one who can free yourself. Let me explain food addiction.

Seeing the Cage, and getting the key.

Heroin. Opium. Morphine. Cocaine.

Why don’t we give those to our children? Because it would ruin their health. Their organs would be under extreme stress, eventually failing. The drugs would change their brain. They wouldn’t act like themselves. Their health would decline. In short, it would be a life of deep pain and struggle, punctuated by brief, drug-filled, highs. It would be an imprisonment from the inside out.

It works like this with our food. However, the addictive food spells out obesity, organ damage to their liver, pancreas and brain, cancers, ADD and ADHD and other autism spectrum dysregulations, mood swings, depression, bi polar disorders, diabetes, poor sleep, reflux, frequent colds and ear aches, small faces and crowded teeth (how your ortho bill is directly related to what you eat and how you breathe), and the list goes on.

Since 2002 we have had research clearly state that food—specifically processed food—is as addictive as the above mentioned drugs. Processed food is any food that has added oils, sugar, salt or flavorings (even if it says “natural”). From our newborns on infant formulas with corn syrups, to the newly eating 6-month olds sucking and chewing on puffs, cheerios, or teething crackers to the upper ages in our population who have more refined tastes, no one is exempt from the reach of processed foods.

What I hear often from people that come to me is, “I want balance. I don’t want to have to eat healthy all the time.”

I understand where you are coming from. But this stuff isn’t food. It is made in massive quantities in factories and they keep well paid chemists on staff to give it just the right flavor to keep you and your children needing it in your lives. It is carefully calculated to create a reaction from you and your children. Read that line again. If you flinch when you walk past the chip isle, the ice-cream isle or other processed confections, you know what I mean.

To give it an image, let’s say you put a pile of broccoli and apple slices on the table in front of your child on one side and a pile of "snack food" on the other side, goldfish, teddy grams, chips, cookies, veggie straws, younameit, which are they likely to over eat? Which are you likely to over eat?

A great MD, Mark Hyman, says it this way:

“Nobody chooses to be a heroin addict, cokehead, or drunk. Nobody chooses to be fat either. The behaviors arise out of primitive neurochemical reward centers in the brain that override normal willpower and overwhelm our ordinary biological signals that control hunger.”

He goes on to detail that we should consider those who smoke cigarettes continue to smoke though they know smoking will give them cancer and heart disease. Less than 20% of alcoholics will escape its grip, and most hard drug users continue to use their drugs of choice even though their lives are being destroyed.

Why? Because they are addictive to our brains. It is not about will power.

How many times have we heard someone complain they “shouldn’t eat _______” but they eat it anyway? I am raising my hand right now. I have heard people, and I have very often been that person in the past.

When we feed our children processed foods, we wire them for addiction. To free yourself and your children from the rat-race of trying to eat what you want and stay thin, clear skinned, focused, disease-free, and so on, you have to change what it is you eat. And not just some days. You must change what you eat fundamentally. Processed foods aren’t welcome in your home. The miracle of it all is that your taste buds will change. And so will theirs! Within weeks your health will rapidly repair itself. Your mental fog will lift, and so will that of your children.

Want to learn more on your own? There are several books that address food addictions and the health of our families. Disease Proof Your Child, by Joel Fuhrman, MD.; A Mind of Your Own, Kelly Brogan, MD.; The Magic Pill, a documentary currently on Netflix; Sugar Blues, by William Dufty (this was made into a documentary in 2016, though I read the book); Bright Line Eating, by Susan Pierce Thompson, Ph.D.; Grain Brain, David Perlmutter, MD.

Why go through a processed food detox?

If you don't want to fall in the statistics of Americans today you have to stop. There is no half-way answer. Those foods have to go. While your children may be able to remain thin, it will impact their brain and organs just the same. The acne, eczema, heavy periods, cancer scares, sleeplessness, and reflux are all part and partial to the processed food life. It is not an "if;" It is a "when."

How do you go about breaking addictions?

What diet or lifestyle of eating is the most healthy for each family?

Do we ever eat junk food again?

What about Christmas and birthday parties and nights out?

What if my kids say they won’t do it? No, I mean really, they refused dinner… what now?

Take my course. I will will answer those questions. I will teach you to know food for yourself so that you hold the key to your own freedom.