Many people don’t recognize the role emotional eating plays in their health. Most blame a lack of willpower for the fact that 95-percent of all diets fail. Whether the diet fails from the get-go or when the dieter regains all the weight shortly after going off their diet, lack of willpower gets the blame. We look into everything to know about emotional eating.
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Orthorexia nervosa is a medical term coined by Doctor Steven Bratman in 1997. Dr. Bratman now serves as the Medical Director of Employee Health at California Pacific Medical Center, in San Francisco, California, and characterizes the newest eating disorder as an unhealthy clean eating obsession.
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In recent years we’ve heard a lot about childhood obesity. Now, a new report says eating disorders like bulimia can start very early on — perhaps even in elementary school. The report comes from the Universite de Montreal, where researchers examined just over 200 children aged eight to twelve, all diagnosed with eating disorders. The […]
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Most men dealing with eating disorders wait much longer to seek help than women suffering from the same disorder, a new study has found. The study, which was recently published in the journal BMJ Open, finds that men suffering from eating disorders often go days without eating and often obsess about their weight. In some […]
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Regardless of whether you have a sweet tooth, a temptation for starches, lack of will power in the face of saturated fats, or all of the above, we’re all familiar with food guilt in one way or another. Food guilt is the shameful string of emotions and negative self-talk that follows an indulgent snack, sweet […]
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Eating disorders can affect anyone from any background. While the media portrays women as suffering from eating disorders, they are common in men as well. An eating disorder is defined as any abnormal eating that is detrimental to the body. We’ve compiled a list of the 10 most common signs of an eating disorder.
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