The Refined Food Addiction Research Foundation
The Refined Food Addiction (ReFA) Research Foundation is dedicated to building healthier lives free from refined food addiction by preventing, curing, and diminishing suffering from ReFA and its manifestations such as obesity, diabetes, stroke, and heart disease. It pursues these goals through research, professional education, public awareness, consumer products, and business consulting.
ReFA Research Foundation is prepared to conduct important, efficient, effective studies and public awareness projects related to refined food addiction. The Foundation is well positioned to translate research results into treatment and can thus be expected to help arrest and reverse the epidemic of diet-related diseases suffered in the United States and increasingly in other industrial countries. Because the consequences of refined food addiction can be devastating and yet, can be reversed within days of abstinence from addictive refined foods, the Foundation operates with a great sense of both urgency and hope.
This website is designed for many different vistors including recovering food addicts, researchers, media, and those who just want to learn more. Please send questions and concerns to joan@refinedfoodaddiction.org.
Conference Announcement!
ReFA Research is sponsoring the first ever conference on Promising Practices in Food Addiction Recovery. The Conference will be held on January 22-23 in Houston, Texas at the Council for Drug and Alcohol Abuse. Please check back for more details!
The website is under construction, so please check back for new postings.
To say that obesity is caused by merely eating too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party. - Adele Davis
I is not I who become addicted, it is my body. - Jean Cocteau