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• "The Craving Cure" book by Julia Ross.  Julia's use of amino acids to help sugar addiction recovery absolutely fascinates me.  She also wrote "The Diet Cure" and "The Mood Cure". Great information on her website and in her books.

• Food Addicts Anonymous - Are you a food addict? Take this quiz and find out.

• Food Addicts Anonymous - Food plan with a list of all the different names for sugar. I didn't follow the FAA food plan but I do like to refer to this page because it lists all the different names for sugar that can be hiding on ingredient labels.  FAA website is a great resource.

• Bitten Jonsson's website - great information about sugar addiction.  Her book is being translated into English. I can't wait to read it! For more about SUGAR, her evaluation method based on ICD 10 criteria for addiction to a psychoactive substance. SUGAR is aimed at helping an individual know if they are addicted or have harmful use of sugar/flour and receive a overview of how the illness has progressed over their lifetime. To find a trained professional in SUGAR, go to https://www.bittensaddiction.com/en/patients/help-available/ or contact Bitten for help at https://www.bittensaddiction.com/en/contact/.

• Kick Sugar Summit - co-hosted by Florence Christophers and Aimee Anderson.  These online summits are amazing and packed with information! Sign up for their email list so you don't miss the next one.

• Quit Sugar Summit - co-hosted by Mike Collins and Danielle Daem.  These online summits are amazing and packed with information! Sign up for their email list so you don't miss the next one.

• "Food Junkies: Recovery from Food Addiction" by Dr. Vera Tarman. This is a MUST read if you think you might be a sugar addict.  Dr. Tarman just recently released this second edition.  Please also visit Dr. Tarman's website: https://www.addictionsunplugged.com/.  She has a sugar free support group on Facebook and many other helpful resources to help you along in your recovery journey.

• Dr. Robert Lustig's website - great information about sugar! Also, a link to his book, "Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease", on Amazon. If you haven't seen his lecture about, "Sugar, The Bitter Truth", watch now!  This lecture has over 10 million views on YouTube.

• Dr. Vera Tarman is the Medical Director for Renascent, one of Canada’s largest drug and alcohol treatment centers.  She spearheaded their new in AND out patient programs in food addiction. She is the author of Food Junkies: Recovery from Food Addiction.

• Susan Peirce Thompson, PhD is President of the Institute for Sustainable Weight Loss and CEO of Bright Line Eating Solutions, a company dedicated to helping people achieve long-term, sustainable weight loss. She and her team are on a mission to help 1 million people get to goal weight by 2030.  To order her book, "Bright Line Eating", click here. 

• Kay Sheppard- over 43 years of being sugar and flour free and author of 2 great books on sugar addiction.

• Dr. Joan Ifland - running online programs for overcoming sugar addiction plus wrote the textbook "Processed Food Addiction." She also runs the Food Addiction Reset group and the Food Addiction Resources website, where she has some great handouts available. To learn more about the reset weeks she hosts four times yearly, go to https://www.resetweek.com/. If you are a health professional and want to learn more about her training to treat processed food addiction, visit https://www.foodaddictionprofessionals.com/.