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How to prove that an addiction exists?

Posted December 2nd, 2007 by joanifland
in Health. Tags: Food, food addiction.

I had the pleasure of hoting Kay Sheppard this weekend.  She is the first person to describe the disease of food addiction in her 1989 book, Food Addiction: The Body Knows.  Kay has 30 years of recovery from addictive foods.  She talked alot about the research that needs to be done to determine the course of disease and to validate assessment and treatment methods.  Fortunately, through my doctoral work, I have an idea for the research agenda.  It's extensive including epidemiological, laboratory, MRI, literature review and human trials research.  Kay and I have agreed to work on it together through the Refined Food Addiction (ReFA) Research Foundation.

I think our collaboration will provide a great leap forward.  It's a very exciting development.

I had the pleasure of hoting

On January 9th, 2010 meizizi said:

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Great news on your collaboration

On December 2nd, 2007 Byron McCann said:

Joan, this is great news for your foundation.

Kay Sheppard's agreement really validates the quality and importance of your research. 

Thanks

On December 3rd, 2007 joanifland said:

Thanks Byron.  It's great for the whole project because Kay's clinical experience is so vast.  It is clinical experience that informs the research to reveal the disease in data.