Today, I couldn't decide which conference I would attend. There was one "free" that I could attend in Oxford about Augmentative Communication Devices or I could attend the one that I signed up for a couple of months ago and paid $86 to attend, but it is not related to my field and I don't get any CEUs. The confernce that I paid for was about food addictions and mood swings. Idecided to attend this one because it was in town and I have heard about AAC devices all of my ST career and I don't use them and I am interested in food addictions right now...so that is the one I wanted to attend.
I learned so much. I learned about how addictions to food is environmental and encouraged by the food industry and marketed by companies to keep us addicted to food so we can spend more money. I also learned that it doesn't take much to meet the criteria of a food addict and also that food addictions don't differ from the drug addict. This presenter broke down the contents in sodas, french fries, and other foods. It is equal to trash...it isn't even food in most instances. Artificial sweetners are terrible. Just plain garbage. A lot of this information I already knew. I decided some years ago that I was going to try my best to stay away from products that had words on the ingredient list that I couldn't even pronounce or recognize as food.
I also learned that the same triggers in the drug addicts' brain effect the overeaters' brain (no difference in the brains, just a difference in the substance used to cope with life stresses). Wow! Wow! I wish that I could attend this class again so that I could try to get more information about this subject. I have decided to continue my own personal study of this matter.
I won't write too much because I am going to attempt to get a little organized for next week. So, I'll write later.
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