31. The Root Cause of binge eating, food obsession, & the Path to Healing with Amber Romaniuk

Kymber sits down with Amber Romaniuk to explore binge eating, food addiction, and the complex relationship between food and emotional well-being. Amber shares her personal journey with binge eating and purging, what ultimately helped her heal, and her perspective on the roots of food addiction.  Today on Nourishing Our Sanity: Amber’s journey through binge eating, purging, and food addiction What is food addiction, and what drives compulsive eating? Challenging each other’s perspectives on sugar and processed foods How Amber and Kymber each healed their relationship with food Where to find Amber: Instagram: @amberromaniuk Podcast: No Sugarcoating Website: amberapproved.ca  Emotional Eating Quiz: Take the Emotional Eating Quiz Free Hormone Imbalance Quiz: Take the Hormone Imbalance Quiz Complimentary 30-Minute Body Freedom Session: Body Freedom Where to find Kymber: Instagram: @kymbermaulden Substack: @kymbermaulden Website: kymbermaulden.com Email: [email protected]   Additional Links The original study behind the "sugar beats cocaine" claim:  Intense Sweetness Surpasses Cocaine Reward Cambridge researchers laying out why the animal-to-human extrapolation is shaky: Obesity and the brain: how convincing is the addiction model? The human evidence (or lack of it) on sugar addiction: “Markus & Rogers, 2017, Appetite — "Eating dependence and weight gain; no human evidence for a 'sugar-addiction' model of overweight." 1,495 people tested, and sugar-only foods showed almost no addiction-like pattern (5%), while high-fat/savory and high-fat/sweet combos did (25–30%) The more accessible theoretical critique of the whole framework: Is food addiction a valid and useful concept? Layne Norton, PhD, refutes sugar addiction claims & Mark Hyman’s Views: Biolayne | Evidence-based research, fitness training, and coaching Why Sugar Did Not Cause the Obesity Epidemic Darth Hyman Claims Sugar Causes 70% of Disease | What the Fitness | Biolayne Critical Debunking of Cerebral Allergy Hypothesis: Clinical Ecology—A Critical Appraisal Dubious Allergy-Related Practices: Clinical Ecology and the Feingold Diet | Quackwatch Clinical ecology Resources Kymber’s HTMA Consultation *This show is produced by Mountain Valley Media*