Eating Disorders Articles

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• Brave Girl Eating: A Family’s Struggle with Anorexia
  Between three and six percent of all teens struggle with some type of eating disorder, be it bulimia, binge eating, or anorexia. Because these illnesses involve eating, they seem to take a blow at family ...
• Fat People
  For his book Fat People, Bill Schubart has created and gathered a collection of stories that will make you rethink your relationship with food. Schubart is smart, sensitive and unnervingly keen at noticing details.  The ...
• 10 Ways Loving a Dog Can Teach Us to Love Our Bodies
  Worried parents often come to my psychotherapy office, wondering how to teach their children to have ...
• Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives: Recovery from Eating Disorders
  Aimee Liu writes with a gentleness and an understanding that only someone who has been through the painful process of recovery can truly possess: Her 1979 memoir, Solitaire, was the first discussion of anorexia nervosa ...
• Eating Disorders Spike Among Middle-Aged and Older Women
  When you hear the term, eating disorder, many people may typically think of a perfectionistic adolescent girl heavily into ...
• Mindless Eating
  We make more than 200 food-related decisions per day. We are unaware of 90 percent of them. In Mindless Eating (2006), Brian Wansink, PhD takes an in-depth look at food psychology and how ...
• Is Trying To Change an Addictive Habit Worth It?
  Drugs. Alcohol. Food. Exercise. Shopping. Gambling. Attempts to change or fix other people. Trying to make more ...
• Parents Important in the Prevention, Awareness of Eating Disorders
  Eating disorders are now epidemic in the United States. Approximately 11 million women and girls struggle ...
• Challenging Body Distortions Through the Eyes of the Body
  Body image is the picture in our mind's eye of how we look to ourselves. It reflects our beliefs about how we think others perceive us ...
• Food, The Good Girl’s Drug: How to Stop Using Food to Control Your Feelings
  Binge eating disorder (BED) is a serious eating disorder that affects about 2.8 percent of Americans, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Yet, it’s vastly misunderstood, and books on BED are few and far ...
• 9 Psychologist-Approved Must-Reads on Mental Health
  Psychologists are a discerning bunch when it comes to books. Because of their insider’s view of mental ...
• Making the Most of Your Whole Self: Being an Embodied Therapist
  Since human beings communicate through their bodies long before they learn to talk, the language of ...
• Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self Acceptance
  Humans are obsessed with body image.  The media says we should look a certain way, else we be outcast and forgotten.  Although men do feel the need to have an attractive appearance, women are more ...
• Choosing the Right Diet
  Starting a new weight-loss program can be intimidating. There are so many questions and so many different answers. With so much ...
• The Voice of an Eating Disorder
  Many people have a difficult time comprehending eating disorders and their true intensity and severity. Myths abound: Eating disorders are a choice. (They’re ...
• Getting on Track with Your Eating Behaviors
  For those who struggle with food and eating, the new year often brings the resolution to do better this time around: Lose ...
• Do Carbohydrates Keep Dieters Happy?
  Low-carbohydrate diets may negatively affect dieters' well-being, researchers have found. A team from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Australia looked at ...
• What We Eat: Morality and the Dinner Table
  We humans enjoy dividing things into categories. Doing so helps us form cognitive shortcuts and organize large sets of information. ...
• Food, Family and the Holidays
  If you tend to struggle with food, weight and body image, holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas can be particularly challenging, because they revolve so much ...
• Wannarexia: What Parents Can Do
  Anorexia nervosa is a serious illness with dangerous health consequences and has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Yet some people yearn ...
• Size Does Not Equal a Healthy Body
  I will never forget the night my 6'3" tall, slender brother and his even taller, slender friend bought two tickets for the ...
• Body Dissatisfaction and Pregnancy
  Pregnancy is associated with dramatic changes in women's body shape and size, and for many women, these changes trigger mixed emotions. For some, ...
• Insecurity May Contribute to Obesity
  Researchers studying food behavior have identified a crucial element in overeating. Disinhibited eating is a pattern of behavior that involves eating too quickly and a repeated lack of success when dieting. Many studies show ...
• Can Nutrition Help Fight or Ward Off Depression?
  Depression is a debilitating but widespread condition involving low mood, low self-esteem, and loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities. Nutrition may have the potential to affect a person's risk of depression, its ...
• 10 Tips to Ease Concerns About Your Weight
  Given the focus on weight by the health establishment, the government and the media, it is not surprising that many people in this country are anxiously asking the same question. And there is no shortage ...