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Trick Your Brain Into Eating Healthy: 5 Tips From A Famous Food Psychologist
Developing a healthy relationship with food has less to do with willpower and control and more to do with environmental and social cues, according to Cornell food psychologist Brian Wansink. In a recent interview with Mother Jones, Wansink explains that being “mindful” of our food choices often leads to a cycle of feeling deprived, desperately …
‘Girls’ Star Zosia Mamet: ‘I’ve Struggled With An Eating Disorder Since I Was A Child’
It’s not uncommon for famous women to open up about eating disorders – celebrities like Kesha, Demi Lovato, and Diane Keaton have all been brave enough to broach the subject in interviews over the past several months. But what’s refreshing about Zosia Mamet, actress on HBO’s “Girls,” is that she didn’t just give an interview …
Eating Disorders On The Rise
According to medical director of the Klarman Eating Disorders Center, Esther Dechant, M.D. and CEO of the Multi-Service Eating Disorders Association, Beth Mayer, eating disorders are on the rise. These two women in the Massachusetts area of the U.S. are experts in the field of eating disorders and in a recent report appearing in the …
Understanding Night Eating Syndrome
Night eating syndrome affects about one or two people per one hundred people. People who suffer from night eating syndrome usually begin eating about eight o’clock in the evening. The average night eater has only eaten about one third of their daily calorie intake for the day by six in the evening. Night Eating Syndrome …
The Drive To Be ‘Manly’ May Cause Weight Gain In Boys
The pressures that many young males feel to be and act masculine could be putting their health at risk, according to a new study. In the first research project of its kind, a team from Boston Children’s Hospital found that societal influences could cause boys and adolescent males to gain weight and have higher BMIs. …
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Miss World Doesn’t Miss A Meal – Major ‘Miss’ Justice
It seems like we can’t turn around without seeing a beauty contestant stripped of her crown. I sometimes laugh when I watch a pageant these days, saying “I give her one day, before pictures of her dancing on a “stripper pole” and doing tequila shots off her “college roommate” start to surface. It seems like we …
Are You A Fast Eater? Slow Down Naturally.
A lot of emotional eaters eat fast – not just a little bit fast, but extremely fast, minimally chewing their food, and raising the next bite to their mouth before the bite they’re chewing is swallowed. Everybody knows the reasons not to do this: You barely taste your food or experience having eaten it, and …
Resolutions
To start the year off on a positive note, avoid resolutions in the spirit of self-dislike. Rather than focusing on weight loss, why not resolve to improve your relationship with food, and while you’re at it, your relationship with your body? This will help you now and will last way beyond the crash-diet/gym-heavy January norm. …
The Silent Killer Called Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia Nervosa is a life-threatening eating disorder that tends to occur during the pre- and post-puberty. Although it usually affects women, there have also been cases of adolescent boys and young adults suffering from anorexia nervosa. The defining symptom of Anorexia Nervosa is the refusal to maintain the minimum normal body weight. This stems from …
Anorexia linked to osteoporosis
If there is one disorder that is commonly attributed to teenage girls, then it must be anorexia nervosa. It would have been better if this illness is just a passing phase happening to some teenage girls, but the fact is that it is not a normal one. While a number of teenagers suffering from anorexia …