Excess Carbs May Alter Appetite Regulation The ability to regulate appetite may decline with age if we overdo the carbohydrates, a recent study suggests.
A team led by Dr. Zane Andrews of Monash University in Victoria, Australia, says that appetite-suppressing cells ...
The Anorexia Workbook The Anorexia Workbook: How to Accept Yourself, Heal Your Suffering, and Reclaim Your Life
Despite ever-widening media attention and public awareness of the problem, American women continue to suffer from anorexia nervosa in greater numbers than ...
Perfect: Anorexia & Me Emily Halban developed anorexia in her final year of high school. She went on to college at an Ivy League school where her disease took on a powerful dimension. By her final year she was ...
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia In this classic from Marya Hornbacher, she tells the story of dealing with her anorexia and bulimia over a course of many years, including the multiple hospitalizations, endless therapy, and the loss of family. By ...
Body Image and Reality: Changing Perspectives? More than 300 million adults worldwide are overweight, and they're increasingly failing to recognize the problem, a recent survey has found.
The data comes from 853 men and 944 women living in Great Britain in ...
Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy: Healing Therapy or Just Hype? Whether it’s a nuzzle of their wet nose, a game of fetch or a walk around the block, spending time with our pets can make us feel better, calmer and even happier. Indeed, studies suggest ...
Preventing Obesity in Children Researchers have found that an educational program designed to help children stop drinking soda has had no long-term impact on obesity.
An estimated ten percent of children worldwide are overweight. Drinking sugared soda seems to ...
My Genes Made Me Do It Americans are increasingly likely to attribute their own — and others' — behavior to innate biological causes. At best that may relieve guilt about behavior we want to change but can't. The quest for genetic ...
Learning More About Obesity Obesity is one of the nation’s fastest-growing and most troubling health problems. Unless you act to address the emotions behind why you overeat, you could be facing long-term problems.
Obesity is one of the nation’s fastest-growing ...
A Brief Overview of Eating Disorders In a society that continues to prize thinness even as Americans become heavier than ever before, almost everyone worries about their weight at least occasionally. People with eating disorders take such concerns to extremes, developing ...
Why Are You Overeating? I believe that the basis of compulsive eating is emotional and that people really need to learn to listen to their hungers. It's important for them to eat when they're hungry, to stop when they've ...
Obesity and Mental Health The world population is becoming rounder, and each year the situation is worsening. The World Health Organization (WHO) believes that we are in the grip of a global epidemic, and it is estimated by the ...
Get Ready To Diet Being ready to lose weight involves many things. There is definite preparation to be done, and without the right kind of preparation, it is unlikely that you will be able to maintain your weight-loss effort. ...
Study Gives Hope for Anorexics’ Future Previous research has indicated a high rate of mortality and illness for patients with anorexia nervosa. A recent Swedish study, however, found positive long-term outcomes for adolescent anorexics.
Dr. Frank Lindblad and colleagues at ...
A Family Guide to Eating Disorders, Part 1: Prevention How much should you worry if your teenager starts to claim she's not hungry, eliminates foods from her diet, or expresses worry about becoming fat? When does "fussy" or diet-like eating go too far? How ...
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 ...
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 ...
