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Wondering Just What the Binge Eating Disorder is Exactly?
Overcome by eating frenzies that leave you knee deep in empty boxes, bags or cartons of food? Only to be left with feelings of shame, disgust and remorse? Then you may be suffering from the binge eating disorder. What is the binge eating disorder? Good question with equally good answers.
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The Top Three Books on Weight Loss, Eating, and an Active Lifestyle - Debunking All the Myths
A review of the best books on "normal" eating. Must reading for individuals struggling with yo-yo dieting. Each book addresses the pseudo-science and myths perpetrated by the billion dollar diet industry.
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Does Someone You Care About Have Anorexia?
Anorexia is an eating disorder that develops when someone stops eating enough food for adequate nutrition. It can happen slowly, over several months or even years, as when some people grow older or develop an underlying disease like cancer. As their appetite dwindles, they may stop eating altogether or gradually eat less and less.
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How to Develop Neuronal Networks to Cure Eating Disorders
A neuronal network is a group of connected neurons (brain cells) which are related to certain behaviours or certain functions in the body. The human brain has thousands of neuronal networks for different human behaviors or functions. An eating disorder takes an enormous amount of brain space because the disorder creates many neuronal networks, each related to certain eating disorder behaviour.
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How to Stop Binge Eating - Simple Ways to Deal With Emotional Eating
If you are one of those who are eating because they are bored, depressed or stressed then you are binge eating engaging in emotional eating. Why is it important to stop binge eating? The number one reason why you must stop emotional eating is that it leads to weight gain overtime. A binge can last for short as hours, days or even as long as weeks and months at a time. Binge eating is not good for any one who has lost weight and trying to maintain their current weight or those who are still trying to lose weight. This article will help you know how to stop binge eating.
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Binge Eating Disorder - Do You Have It?
All of us overeat now and then for various reasons. Usually, we eat too much during special holiday celebrations like birthdays or Thanksgiving, Sometimes we overeat because we are stressed or depressed. However, if overeating is occurring more than occasionally, you may be suffering from binge eating disorder.
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Behind the Veils of Eating Disorders - A Connection to Spirituality
What does it mean to be "nourished?" To many, the idea of nourishment is associated with the provision of sustenance to the body, mainly in the form of food and water. Such a Westernized conceptualization ignores the fact that one's mind, spirit and body all need to be nourished in order to survive and thrive. The mind, body, and spirit are intimately connected, and an individual must provide nourishment to all aspects of the self to attain feelings of being alive and full. Spirituality is not a unitary concept. This article will explore the journey an eating disordered individual takes when developing her mind, body, and spirit, and the role eating disorders may play in understanding one's greater purpose in life and learning how to achieve true and long lasting nourishment.
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Outpatient Treatment For Eating Disorders
Outpatient Treatment for Eating Disorder was the subject of an article published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. The article out-lined a study that questioned the success rate of a 60 week follow-up program in comparison to 30 day inpatient eating disorder treatment or 8 to 12 week program available today.
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Overeating Has a Shaky Future
Recently I saw this commercial of Kaiser Permanente that really spoke to me. I pondered over it for days. It's the one where the highways are full of cyclists instead of cars, the vending machines have apples instead of candy bars, and people stare in amazement at a cigarette stump that is now displayed in a glass case in the museum.
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Eating Disorders Are Result of Brain Plasticity
What is brain plasticity? And how is it related to developing an eating disorder?
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