Food Addiction Reset is supported by founder/CEO Joan Ifland, PhD, MBA Dr. Ifland is a food addiction professional who is active in both online recovery and research. Dr. Ifland has been an innovator in the field of recovery from food addiction since 1999 with the publication of her first popular book. She is the lead author of the first scholarly description of processed food addiction according to classic addiction diagnostic criteria and the first scholarly definition of addictive versus non-addictive foods. In 2014-2017, she wrote and edited the only textbook on recovery from food addiction, Processed Food Addiction: Foundations, Assessment, and Recovery, published by CRC Press. Dr. Ifland earned her PhD in 2010 at Union Institute in addictive nutrition. Her MBA was awarded by Stanford Business School in 1978 and her BA in Economics and Political Science by Oberlin College in 1974. In 2015, she founded the Food Addiction Reset Community on Facebook to help people recover from food addiction. In 2016, she founded the first online training in food addiction to make recovery easier in small, online groups.