“Substance Abuse Disorders, or addictions, have been thought to be the exclusive province of drugs of abuse, like cocaine or heroin. More recently, food has been considered a substance of abuse, with morbid obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and other consequences the result of a pathological attachment to food. What we eat causes profound changes in the  brain.
 

This book by Dr. Cocores is an easy-to-use guide to recovery from the disease of obesity---a brain disease that causes shame and guilt  and results in secondary diseases of the body and spirit of the  patient.”

 

Mark S. Gold, M.D.

Distinguished Professor & Chief

McKnight Brain Institute

Departments of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Anesthesiology, Community

Health & Family Medicine Division of Addiction Medicine