There’s no denying that the holidays are a time to celebrate, and that means sitting down to some major meals. You might look forward to a full turkey dinner all year or that special breakfast right after opening presents. No matter what’s on the menu, keeping track of your blood sugar is important so that [...]
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While bulimia and anorexia nervosa are both categorized (and treated) as mental disorders, only recently did binge eating receive the same classification. The American Psychiatric Association decided to add binge eating, along with Asperger’s, bipolar disorder and “cutting” to their new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
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While awareness and education surrounding eating disorders is on the rise, it might be surprising to hear that eating disorders themselves are on the rise in both men and women. Affecting as many as eleven million people in the U.S., bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa and binge eating can be found in anyone, no matter their [...]
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Parents aren’t unfamiliar with their kids’ eating habits. And whether your kids are the type who eat everything (lucky you) or they’re the kind that won’t touch a single thing that’s not shaped like a dinosaur, you’re probably just dealing with a temporary phase. Like adults, children all have their preferences. But as the instances [...]
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It’s tough to fight and treat an eating disorder. Even if you’re seeking professional help and you’ve found a reputable doctor, you still have to be able to afford treatment. An estimated 11 million Americans suffer from eating disorders like anorexia nervosa and bulimia, but only a small percentage of those people get help, and [...]
As many people by now know, I have had a pretty hard-knock life. I certainly haven’t lived my life in a traditional way. As a matter of fact, you could probably say I took a short left at “traditional” and then took a hard right to pretty “effed up.” A therapist I had once [...]
Most women my age do not like dating. I myself find it basically the equivalent to having to go out and buy tires at Pep Boys. I know I need them, but when I start looking at all of them, I have no idea where to even begin. This one is saying it has good tread, the other one says longevity,there’s ones that [...]
You’ve probably heard more than once how similar humans are to primates, but a recent study of Indonesian orangutans conducted by an evolutionary anthropologist at Rutgers University has linked humans and primates in areas other than genetics. Studying the areas of obesity and eating disorders, Erin Vogel saw similarities in the orangutans’ survival tactics during [...]
Every time you flip through a magazine, you’re bound to see slim, cellulite-free legs, wrinkle-free faces and expressions without crow’s feet or smile lines. You can’t avoid it, but you can realize that in reality things aren’t always as they appear. After all, nobody is perfect – unless they’re in a magazine, that is. Health [...]
For the last few months we have seen nothing but advertisers throwing everything in our faces from Big Screen TV’s to Big Holiday Hams. When you walked in the grocery store little elves were hopping around giving you free samples of egg nog, and the strong fragrant smell of cinnamon and nutmeg,made it feel OK to throw that package of sugar cookies [...]
Eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia are the most commonly discussed eating disorders, but there’s a new unhealthy habit that’s becoming more prevalent among teenagers and college students. “Drunkorexia,” a new term that’s being used by the media to describe the combination of disordered eating with heavy alcohol consumption isn’t just the collision of two [...]
Would the defendant please rise….You have been charged with eating what you wanted over the holidays, treating yourself to some dessert after dinner last week, sleeping in instead of working out on your day off, going to In-and-Out burger with your boyfriend for his birthday, and not resisting Betty the Secretary’s fudge nut brownies today at work. [...]
Don’t be surprised if today you walk into your local McDonalds or Burger King and are asked “would you like fries with that coke” from a 6 foot tall blonde supermodel named Svenka. It looks like computers are the ones who are “striking a pose”, and “working it” for the photo lenses these days, and [...]
I have a lot of weaknesses, shoes, tabloid magazines, the dollar bins at Target, and kettle corn. I can’t seem to get enough of it, and for some reason once I start can’t stop eating it. Thank God for snack bags otherwise I would be in trouble. I am usually a very polite eater but [...]
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