[1] Food Addicts Anonymous was founded in 1987 in West Palm Beach, Florida, by a founder who calls herself "Judith C."[2][3] By 2007 there were over 150 weekly meetings around the world in addition to phone and online meetings.

[3][4] The organization has meetings in the US, Canada, Australia, England, Norway, Sweden and Ireland.

FAA holds that some people are addicted to certain foods and must abstain from them; like other twelve-step programs, FAA members believe that help from a higher power is necessary for them to avoid the substances they crave.

The organization has a suggested food plan that calls for abstinence from sugar, flour, and wheat.

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