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- 1. Nancy Anderson Dolan BA Psych
- 2. Routes of Treatment #1 TENANT OF INTERVENTION, TREATMENT AND BUILDING WELL-BEING START WHERE YOU ARE WITH WHAT YOU HAVE AND WHAT YOU HAVE GOING ON • RECOGNITION - awareness of both internal and external states • RESOURCING - developing internal and external resources • RELAXATION - releasing physical and psychological tension • REGULATION - physical, mental and emotional regulation • RELATING - engaging authentically and extensively • RE-VISIONING - reviewing and revising perception of things • RE-PATTERNING - evolving neour w patterns of thought and behavior • REPETITION - practice of positive patterns for neural rewiring WiseHeartWellnessWorldWide.com Nancy Anderson Dolan
- 3. History • 1890 the term addiction first appeared in reference to chocolate, as used in the Journal of Inebriety • 1950’s –Jack Lalanne one of the first “fitness” instructors compares “sugarolics” to alcoholics saying there are millions, specifically saying how sugary breakfast cereals and soda pop are so deadly for people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9tUPqYF6LU • 1956 Randolf described addiction to specific foods, corn, wheat, coffee, eggs, potatoes • 1959 psychiatrist Albert J. Stunkard “One of the most common and difficult problems we face is that of food addiction, both in the genesis of diabetes and its treatment. Are there physiological factors involved in this mechanism or is it all psychological? • 1960 Overeaters Anonymous founded based on the food addiction idea following AA’s 12 steps • 1970’s Swanson and Dinello referred to food addiction in the context of high rates of weight regain after weight loss in obese individuals amidst a lot of heated debate, ridicule or disregard of the food addiction hypothesis • 1980’s Sporadic research efforts primarily with anorexics and bulimics – again a lot of debate about the “addiction” label • 1990’s Chocolate emerges as a possible actual addictive substance observed via brain scans • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553650/ a Yale review of food addiction history WiseHeartWellnessWorldWide.com Nancy Anderson Dolan
- 4. History • Throughout 1990 – 2006 0 – 2.5 scientific aticles found on web search as per Yale timeline article • 2000’s Wang, Volkow etal found dopamine issues with obese individuals coined dopamine deficiency syndrome, Serge Amed sugar as addictive as cocaine in rats, Nicole Avena, binging and sugar addictions with rat models Using improving neuroscience investigative technology • 2007 Mark Gold and Nora Volkow chair historic Yale University meeting on food addiction (Mark Gold has been working on this issue for 30 years trying to get DSM inclusion of food addiction – not included yet • 2008 Calgary Addictions Summit – included food addicts – lots of resistance and mockery, but in the “fishbowl” where food addicts told their stories it got respect • 2008 Dr. Brian Cram’s keynote at the inaugural Canadian Eating Disorders Association Conference drew intense negative response among attendees when he described his growing perception of eating disorders as addictive processes, from the stories of clients about their actual lived experience of their disordered eating • 2008 Ashley Gearhardt Yale Food Addiction scale (revised 2015) now works in the University of Michigan Food and Addiction Science and Treatment (FAST) lab • 2009 Food Addiction Summit – Global interdisciplinary group of authors, researchers, administrators, fitness people, clinicians and people with the problem discusses food addiction, researchers • 2009 scientific tripled to 15, 2011 3x to 45, by 2014 to 75 /year and has continued to explode. http://www.foodaddictionsummit.org/index.htm https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553650/ a Yale review of food addiction history WiseHeartWellnessWorldWide.com Nancy Anderson Dolan
- 6. Current Food Addiction Research Trends Based on Neuroplasty WiseHeartWellnessWorldWide.com Nancy Anderson Dolan BREATHING – 80% of fat loss leaves through the lungs, but also addresses the all important sensory regulation issue, calming the body and feeds the brain oxygen. GUT BIOME – the presence and absence of particular microbes that help to process foods – pre and probiotics, fecal implants, elimination of processed foods LEARNED IMPULSE REGULATION – you can learn to build impulse control with mindfulness and micro moment methods, not sheer will or won’t power BRAIN CHEMISTRY – Brain chemistry balance improves the ability to undertake all other efforts and often shifts cravings and other causes such as anxiety, sensory dysregulation and altered perceptions. Both mental perceptions such as life is hard and actual visual ones such as how much food is on the plate. MINDFULNESS – compassionate observation of body, mind and eating experience Just 8 weeks of 15 – 20 min sessions changes the brain of most people for months
- 7. Brain Optimization WiseHeartWellnessWorldWide.com Nancy Anderson Dolan Epigentics – change your brain change your life down to gene expression!
- 8. Brain Optimization WiseHeartWellnessWorldWide.com Nancy Anderson Dolan • Optimal chemistry balance allows you to reconnect to body signals • 100% of my compulsive eaters have serotonin deficits • Allows reconnection with body sensations and recommendations which further helps to improve brain chemistry • The Edge Effect – Eric Braverman; as brain chemistry tips people lose their “edge” and the effect multiplies the longer it is not attended to. AS IT IS REBALANCED YOU REGAIN YOUR EDGE AT ANY EDGE • Link to Braverman self assessment • Link to Robertson Wellness website Brain Chemistry Optimization
- 9. Food Addiction Facts Brain differences exist in many people that report addictive like eating issues. Although there are commonalities, each person’s experience is unique Processed foods are more likely to cause food addiction Food behaviors can be addictive Some foods more commonly cause addictive like responses such as obsessing about, cravings, being unable to resist cravings and overeating despite negative consequences. Addictive eating is usually accompanied with other mental, medical or situational problems There are many ways to help people struggling with food addiction. WiseHeartWellnessWorldWide.com Nancy Anderson Dolan Food Addiction Fallacies Food addiction is a failure of character or will power or a case of gluttony Food can’t be addictive at all or only some foods are addictive Only fat people are addicted to food Food addiction is just a fear of food people can learn to control their eating Everyone can eat everything in moderation If people would just stop eating unhealthy food they would stop being food addicted Food addiction is just an excuse
- 10. • Food Addiction is a complex process involving all facets of a person’s life, life perception and life experience • It is a brain and gut based, but entire body involved experience, that is influenced by all life experience. • Many things cause the appearance/experience of food addiction like symptoms. • Primary problem is system dysregulation and consequences are symptoms of food addiction, obsessing about and disorderly consumption of food and may include purging food or over exercising or other unique symptoms Disruption > Disorder > Dysfunction > Disease The further you are along this developmental line the more help you will need WiseHeartWellnessWorldWide.com Nancy Anderson Dolan Summary
- 11. • SUPPORT – information, professional and personal companions overeatersanonymous.org, online chats/groups, more support=more success your brain will lie to you at every turn. • Write out an eating history, a list of foods and situations that seem to trigger your eating, take ONE food or situation and start to explore it with mindfulness and evolve it by trying out possible alternatives. • Use the information you’ve learned tonight to better communicate your situation to others and become more aware of it yourself. • Begin a body scan practice – take your time to build your abilities, learning to relax and recognize and sit with sensations and emotions. WiseHeartWellnessWorldWide.com Nancy Anderson Dolan Suggestions
- 12. WiseHeartWellnessWorldWide.com Nancy Anderson Dolan Thank you! I hope you learned something new today! Please do not hesitate to send questions via Facebook and email. https://www.facebook.com/wiseheartwellnessworldwide scientistsage@gmail.com
Editor's Notes
- First Welcome thank you for coming I hope I will be able to provide some information of value to you this evening. I guarantee that you will leave tonight with some new piece of information about food addiction or the state of the field. As this is a vast topic I will not be able to answer all questions or address personal specific situations in depth but I am sending around a mailing list sign up if you want to receive a copy of this presentation and other information we send out regularly add your name. You can also go to the wiseheartwellnessworldwide Facebook page and post a question that I will answer on there or send an email to me and I will endeavour to answer your questions. I will apologize that our current website and Facebook page don’t really reflect what we do around food addiction as things are changing quickly that’s why I suggest the sign up instead – things will land on the other platforms eventually, but come first usually via the email list. Before I start here are my conflict of interest statements – I do own an agency that provides help for people who feel they are food addicted so clearly I have a conflict here. I also believe that I have the personal experience of being addicted to food from the age of 2 to today despite having lost 150lbs over 20 years ago And lastly I have an unabashed approval of 12 step programs to deal with all addictions food included. So please take all that into account as I speak with you tonight. My name is Nancy Anderson Dolan. But why am I up here talking to you? I do have a degree in Psychology and have been a counsellor for more than 30 years working in everything from native services to woods homes, solvent addictions treatments to incest and other early trauma, to working with disorderly eating, and brain chemistry optimization and I have been involved with local, national and international eating disorder organizations for over 20 years. I also have done and presented research on topics involved in this issue. The work with food addiction was painfully slow and fumbling because at first nobody believed it was real, and it was an orphan opinion. The addiction people didn’t want it “dumbing down” the “real” addictions and the eating disorder people didn’t want the nasty “addiction” label added to their eating disorder clients. Then and now there is a ongoing debate about the definition and legitimacy of food as an addictive issue. However, I persist in talking about it and treating it, because as Brian Cram the past director of Alberta's eating disorder program found that is just what is showing up in the behavior and description with people that come for help with their eating.
- I’m going to run a thread about treatment through my talk, as we discuss history, definition, different perceptions, research and my own story. I am first and foremost I am a clinician, although also a bit of an obsessive researcher. The most important part of research to me is how can I use this information to help and I know many of you here have come because you or someone you care about or provide care to may be struggling with something looking like addictive eating. We have found that most “failures” in recovering from addictive eating can be attributed to lack of understanding symptoms and circumstances. People are often working on the wrong problem with inadequate resources. Then on top of it many people try to do too much, too soon with too little foundational work. These “rules” or “tools” for or “routes” as I prefer call them, to defining and addressing the challenge addictive eating and building wellbeing are as follows: I will explain them briefly and more fully in terms of examples as we look at the rest of the presentation. There is also a free presentation you can download from the website – the bare beginnings of my legacy plans to release all the models and methods we’ve developed and used over the last decade to professionals and the public.
- Doesn’t account for the “lay” or public conversation started back in the 60’s with overeaters anonymous, early author clinicians like kay Sheppard on1998 Food addicts anonymous and the latest Pamela Peak psychiatrist author and the flood of others professional, public and personal having conversations about food addiction, all with a particular “take” on what it will take to deal with food addiction.
- Genetics – what you get can make you more vulnerable – like aboriginal physiological responses to alcohol, having a poorly regulated sensory system, getting associated illnesses like depression Disconnection – early trauma dissociation from the body, cultural pressure to disconnect from physical cues, over stimulation causes disconnection from others and self, when we leave ourselves we create system problems, disconnect from complex pleasures and simple enjoyment of what its Simplistic Solutions – every time somebody does a fast weight loss diet they actually make food addiction more likely or worse, if we don’t identify the problem correctly we cannot take effective steps to solve it, cultural quick, easy, complete cure to food addiction Obesogenic culture – cheap easy food, constant marketing of hyperpalatable foods, early exposure, sad is taken away by eating, enlarged plates Entitlement= think we can have our cake and eat 2 of them, healthy at any weight – great if you choose to, I shouldn’t have to work hard at it, free will, Social isolation – less community connections, independence over interdependence, addiction is a disease of isolation, weight issues isolate further, brain chemistry tips and being around people gets more difficult Hyper Palatable foods – processed and pumped up to hijack your reward system so you keep eating them with less enjoyment. Sends error messages to all cells and systems in your body. Causes systemic break down
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- Genetics – what you get can make you more vulnerable – like aboriginal physiological responses to alcohol, having a poorly regulated sensory system, getting associated illnesses like depression Disconnection – early trauma dissociation from the body, cultural pressure to disconnect from physical cues, over stimulation causes disconnection from others and self, when we leave ourselves we create system problems, disconnect from complex pleasures and simple enjoyment of what its Simplistic Solutions – every time somebody does a fast weight loss diet they actually make food addiction more likely or worse, if we don’t identify the problem correctly we cannot take effective steps to solve it, cultural quick, easy, complete cure to food addiction Obesogenic culture – cheap easy food, constant marketing of hyperpalatable foods, early exposure, sad is taken away by eating, enlarged plates Entitlement= think we can have our cake and eat 2 of them, healthy at any weight – great if you choose to, I shouldn’t have to work hard at it, free will, Social isolation – less community connections, independence over interdependence, addiction is a disease of isolation, weight issues isolate further, brain chemistry tips and being around people gets more difficult Hyper Palatable foods – processed and pumped up to hijack your reward system so you keep eating them with less enjoyment. Sends error messages to all cells and systems in your body. Causes systemic break down
- Food addiction starts with some sort of disruption in the person’s mental, physical or situational experience, or all at once. If the disruption, from a significant trauma, loss to a medical issue or chronic life stressor, is “corrected, people many spontaneously revert to normal eating. If not they may progress to a disordered eating state. If this is treated earlier and effectively they may revert to more normalized eating. If not