It is not uncommon practice for brides-to-be to adopt a slimming diet in order to fit into their wedding dress on the big day. However, reports of a controversial new fad diet being offered to brides in Florida have experts both puzzled and concerned. According to the New York Times, some women are opting for …
Most people go on a diet to lose weight and those diets are not always the best thing for your body in the long run. Eating a well balanced diet with exercise several times, a week is the only diet that can guarantee weight loss without harming your body. Harmful Effects of Dieting Aside from …
For people struggling with obesity or weight problems, dieting so often fails because of its restrictive nature. Periods of cutting calories or eliminating food groups are often followed by periods of binge eating, setting individuals up for a cycle of failure – and never enabling them to lose the weight for good. Yet new research …
Under pressure from the National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA), Yoplait has pulled a television ad that critics claim promotes an unhealthy relationship with food and could trigger those vulnerable to eating disorders. In the ad a woman stands before a refrigerator while contemplating eating a slice of cheescake. She begins an inner monologue in which …
According to a national study by a Chapman University psychologist, between 20 to 40 percent of American men have feelings of dissatisfaction with their bodies, including negative perceptions about weight, physical appearance and muscle size. The recent study – reportedly the largest of its kind on the subject of men and body image – sheds …
Men who use dietary supplements to enhance their exercise performance or their physique may have a largely unexplored eating disorder, according to new research. The study, “Excessive Workout Supplement Use: An Emerging Eating Disorder in Men,” was conducted by a team from Alliant International University, and it revealed that males could be suffering more from …
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. …
In an effort to find out what creates unhealthy eating patterns among children, researchers from University College London compared children’s eating behaviors to their mothers’ reactions to certain behaviors and found that parents are usually responding to (not the cause of) fussy eating or overindulgence. The Study Researchers collected data from 244 mothers of children …
Samantha Osteen was crowned Miss. Augusta on Saturday in the 36th annual scholarship pageant. This beauty queen has an agenda – eating disorders. Although, this beautiful young lady is the “picture of perfect health” today that was not always the case. Samantha’s Goal Samantha knows all to well the struggles of an eating disorder. She …
In a recent study published online in the journal Pediatrics, researchers from three different educational institutions compared three everyday clinical methods of determining the expected body weight of adolescents suffering from eating disorders. Researchers from the University of Chicago, the Harvard School of Public Health, and the University of Rochester Medical Center arrived at the …
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