Eva Clemente – Resolve Food Addiction

International Food Addiction Conference Bristol 19th-20th of May

May 29, 2022|

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Last weekend, Raquel and I attended the first international Food Addiction Conference in Bristol, hosted by Public Health Collaboration and IFA. It was an opportunity to meet in person a lot of our peers and some of our heroes. We were helping at the Food Addiction Institute stand as we are now both members of …

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5 Nutrition and Health Myths

May 8, 2022|

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Over the years, old fashion myths or misconceptions about nutrition have been perpetuated by the media, magazines and even some health care professionals. Here are some examples. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day Previous studies have suggested that eating breakfast might be linked to maintaining good health and a healthy weight, but …

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Don’t eat your emotions

March 22, 2022|

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I love Bridget Jones. I read all the books and when I heard that Réene Zellweger and Colin Firth were going to co-star the films I couldn’t hide my excitement. They are both perfectly cast. The books and films tell the story of Bridget Jones, a single woman in her thirties. The story tells the …

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Esther Helga Gudmundsdottir, the Icelandic pioneer

March 13, 2022|

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Esther Helga Gudmundsdottir is a pioneer in the field of food addiction treatment. Once an opera singer and opera teacher, Esther was battling food addiction for most of her adult life until she discovered a twelve step program that changed her life. Once in recovery, she open one of the first food addiction treatment programs …

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Mum’s Pisto

February 12, 2022|

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I was a very spoilt teenager. My mum, being a housewife, never asked us to do house chores or shopping or cooking. At home, my job was to study, get good grades, come back at a reasonable hour and just enjoy family life. I loved it. But it didn’t teach me anything about living independently. …

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Eat Me by Patience Agbabi

January 27, 2022|

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When my 15 year old daughter came from school one day very excited about a new poem they were analysing, I knew it was going to be something special. I had only seen her this excited once, when she was reading Macbeth. Instead of explaining what the poem was about she decided to read it. …

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To Juice or Not to Juice, that is the question

January 9, 2022|

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Thankfully, the juicing obsession of the 80s disappeared a few years ago but there is still plenty of people that think that juicing fruit or vegetables is good for their health, in fact, some of them think it is extremely good for you. I can’t count the number of patients (most of them living with …

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50% OFF Food Addiction and Medical Assessment

January 5, 2022|

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New Year and already thinking about starting a new diet? How many have you tried to date? Want to stop obsessing about food and weight once and for all? Why not try something different this year? Dieting is only a temporary solution for a very complex problem that doesn’t resolve with just “eating less and …

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Bitten Jonsson, the Swedish warrior

September 11, 2021|

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Bitten Jonsson is a world-renowned trainer of Sugar Addiction Counsellors, with nearly 40 years of experience in addiction medicine and treatment. Based in Sweden, Bitten is a registered nurse, addiction specialist and authorized provider of SUGAR® / ADDIS® diagnostic assessments and training. Her expertise spans the full range of addiction screening and diagnostic assessment to …

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Breaking Denial

June 19, 2021|

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I’ve always liked routine and being brought up in Spain, food is a very important part of our life. Since I can remember, I had the same thing to eat for breakfast: what we call in the UK “French bread”, I normally had it with olive oil and salt. It was delicious and I never …

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