How can Health Coaches in clinics help doctors to support patients with food addiction?

Doctors struggle with adherence because high-glycaemic carbohydrates drive hidden hunger and food addiction. The report explicitly links refined and high-glycaemic foods with reward activation and dependency behaviours, and it notes clinicians’ frustration with dietary adherence. In this framing, non-adherence is often a predictable outcome of hyper-palatable food environments interacting with human neurobiology and metabolic dysregulation.

Elevated blood glucose and insulin from chronic carbohydrate intake varies widely across the population, and therefore a generic approach is unlikely to work.

Health coaches dealing with food addiction consider the cumulative carbohydrate burden because addiction-triggering ultra-processed foods often sit on top of an already carbohydrate-heavy diet, producing repeated glycaemic and insulin excursions that destabilise appetite regulation and reinforce cravings. Managing the cumulative burden reduces the frequency of spikes that keep the cycle active.

Health coaches and community groups support people to shift behaviours to focus on whole-food consumption in ways that reflect individual capacities, address food addiction and individual responses to carbohydrate intake.

How can Health Coaches in clinics help doctors to support patients with food addiction?

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