Dr. Tarman is a physician who specializes in treating addiction.  Her mission is to educate the public as well as other medical professionals in the biology of food addiction and how the clinical syndrome of sugar and flour addiction can be as treacherous as addiction to alcohol or tobacco.  She is the author of Food Junkies: Recovery from Food Addiction and co-hosts the Food Junkies Podcast.  She is the Medical Director of one of Canada’s largest treatment centers for substance abuse and has spearheaded two unique treatment programs for residential and outpatient food addiction.  Most importantly, as a recovering food addict herself, Dr. Tarman walks the walk: she has abstained completely from sugar and flour for over a decade and is maintaining a 100-pound weight loss.