Nutrition and Recovery

Nutrition and Recovery How Addiction Takes a Toll on Your Nutrition Drug and alcohol abuse can take a major toll on your body, especially when it comes to nutrition. While recovery is a gradual process, one often-overlooked factor is how poor nutrition affects healing. Food directly influences brain function—and when your brain isn’t getting the […]
Drinking Alcohol Tied to Unhealthy Food Choices

Drinking Alcohol Tied to Unhealthy Food Choices In a joint study between the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the US Dept. of Agriculture (USDA), the results concluded that people overall eat more unhealthy foods on the days that they drink alcohol. Food choices changed on […]