Joan Ifland

Joan Ifland, PhD

Dr. Ifland is a food addiction professional who is active in both supportand research.

Dr. Ifland has maintained a food addiction education practice since 1999. In 2015, she founded The Facebook Group, Food Addiction Education https://www.facebook.com/groups/1806154526275515/, to help people understand the disease of food addiction.

Dr. Ifland has been searching for a reliable way to put food addiction into remission since she started recovery in 1996. After writing the textbook, "Processed Food Addiction," she finally discovered the way to help people consistently find peace with food.

In 2016, she broke new ground in support for recovery with Food Addiction Reset Community and the RESET WEEK. at www.foodaddictionreset.com.

Oprah Winfrey Network chose Dr. Ifland as the food addiction specialist on the show, "The Book of John Gray." She is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition. She is the author of the popular book, Sugars and Flours: How They Make Us Crazy, Sick and Fat which sold in the top 3% of Amazon books for 12 years. Her textbook was published in 2018 by CRC Press.

She is the lead author of the first scholarly description of processed food addiction according to classic addiction diagnostic criteria and the first definition of addictive versus non-addictive foods. She was invited by faculty at Yale University and Georgetown Medical School to submit three chapters to textbooks. She has published five academic articles.

Dr. Ifland earned her PhD in 2010 at Union Institute in addictive nutrition. Her MBA was awarded by Stanford Business School in 1978 and her BA in Economics by Oberlin College in 1974.

Joan Ifland, PhD, MBA, CEO

Food Addiction Reset, LLC

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