Archive for October, 2006

Listed by most recent articles first.

• What To Do if a Family Member Has an Eating Disorder
  Accept that there are no quick and easy solutions for recovery from an eating disorder. Therapists, physicians and other eating disorder experts have no magic cure. If your loved one is to get lasting recovery, ...
• Treatment and Management of Eating Disorders
  Persons with eating disorders often have difficulty admitting that they have a serious problem, and in many cases, particularly with anorexia, family or friends must persuade the individual to seek treatment. In treating anorexia nervosa, the ...
• Overeating vs. Binge Eating
  About one-third of all Americans are overweight, and not all of them are binge eaters. Most of us find ourselves eating too much at one time or another. At Thanksgiving, or other special occasions, it ...
• Fitness Magazines and Eating Disorders: Is There a Relationship?
  It's long been held that waif-thin models posing in fashion and beauty magazines encourage young women to follow unhealthy eating habits—possibly bulimia and anorexia nervosa. Now, researchers at Brigham Young University have discovered "thin is ...
• The Birds and the Bees: Talking to Young Teens About Sex
  "Birds do it, Bees do it, Even educated fleas do it. Let's do it, Let's fall in love." -Cole Porter So. How did you learn about sex? My husband tells about coming home from school one day to find a book ...
• Courtship to Marriage: A Tricky Transaction
  In Greek mythology, there are some marvelous stories of marriage. Here, for instance, are two tales about how Zeus and Hera tricked each other into marriage and the inevitable disappointments that follow such chicanery. These ...
• Chore War: Household Tasks and the Two-Paycheck Couple
  As more and more women take it for granted that they will work fulltime for most, if not all, of their married lives, ideas about which partner should do what to maintain the household have ...
• Shifting from Conversation to Argument and What To Do About It
  It can happen in an instant: The transition from conversation to argument is often so quick and the reaction so intense that the parties can lose sight of what happened and how it happened. And ...
• Mental Retardation and Mental Illness
  It’s one of my pet peeves. “He’s having behaviors,” says the new teacher. Argh! I hate that phrase. Of course he’s “having behaviors.” We all have behaviors. When we stop having behaviors, we’re ...
• Good Reasons To Keep Taking Your Medication
  Many research studies have highlighted the phenomenon of the "healthy adherer" — people who take their medications consistently demonstrate more healthy behavior overall. Backing up this idea are studies showing better outcomes for patients who ...
• Cupid and Psyche: A Story of Love (Part 2)
  In Part 1, we learn that men traveled from far and wide to admire the grace and beauty of Psyche, an astonishingly attractive mortal woman. In despair over the fact that his daughter did ...
• Cupid and Psyche: A Story of Love (Part 1)
  Once upon a time when the world was young, mortals believed that all of the elements in the heavens and on the earth were connected. Humans saw that while a breeze silently and gently guided ...
• Bulimia: Binging and Purging
  Bulimic behavior has two phases: the binge and the purge. The Binge Although there are certainly individual variations, a binge is defined as the rapid consumption of a large amount of high-calorie food in a short ...
• An Introduction to Binge Eating
  "Bet you can't eat just one." Many will recall this popular television commercial, where the announcer tempts an unsuspecting muncher with a single potato chip. He grabs the bag, examines a single chip and confidently eats ...
• An Introduction to Anorexia Nervosa
  Right now, one percent of all American women—our sisters, mothers and daughters—are starving themselves; some literally starving and exercising themselves to death. Eating disorders are becoming an epidemic, especially among our most promising young women. ...
• An Introduction to Bulimia Nervosa
  People with bulimia nervosa do two things. First, they eat. Second, they work very hard to get rid of what they have eaten. People with bulimia binge eat. That is, in a small amount of ...
• Accepting Your Body
  It's time for some sound advice on achieving a quality lifestyle instead of dieting again. Ninety-five percent of all women don't have the ideal body type portrayed by the media, and up to 60 percent ...
• What Does Money Mean To You?
  It might surprise you to learn that: Americans spend, on average, $1.10 for every $1.00 they earn in wages, according to a Congressional committee report. A $3,500 credit card balance, paid in minimum monthly installments at an ...
• Summer House Sanity
  "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times." Charles Dickens began his famous novel, A Tale of Two Cities, with those immortal words. But what better way to describe the experiences ...
• How To Create a Healthy, Adult Relationship With Mom and Dad
  The problem is as old as time. It's the stuff of which Greek myths, novels and screen plays are made. I'm referring to the love/hate relationship between parents and their adult daughters. Our Mistake: We ...
• Making Relationships Work
  Many couples go into a marriage thinking that love will see them through anything the future may hold. While this idea is romantically appealing and is fueled by the passion of love in bloom, it ...
• A Long Way Down
  Nick Hornby is an author who can take the usually-depressing topic of suicide and turn it into an engaging, thoughtful novel about four people who find themselves in an unexpected situation that brings them together, ...
• 10 Highly Effective Study Habits
  Students grapple with many issues in their lives, and because of all of the competing things for your attention, it’s hard to concentrate on studying. And yet if you’re in school, you have to do ...
• Confessions of a Woman on Online Dating: Reflections
  I have a confession to make. I pay hard-earned money to meet virtual men. What’s wrong with me?! Absolutely nothing. I’m cute (I swear!), in shape, have an interesting job, have interesting ...
• Thinking About Using Match.com?
  It can be a big decision to start online dating. Some people still see it as a service for losers who can’t meet people in real life. In reality, it’s a good option ...