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Dec 2009
42m 59s

Refined Foods Addiction

Nutritional Weight & Wellness, Inc.
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Darlene Kvist, Licensed Nutritionist and Kara Carper, Master of Holistic Health discuss how sugar, flour and other refined foods create cravings and food addictions with special guest Joan Ifland, Ph.D., author of "SUGARS AND FLOURS: How They Make Us Crazy, Sick, and Fat and What to Do About It". 
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