Oprah and best-selling author Geneen Roth discuss how eating more mindfully can help us understand what's really behind the urge to binge.
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CLEAR ALL
For anyone who has suffered, their family and friends, and other helping professionals, this book should be by your side.
By weaving practical insights and exercises through a rich tapestry of multicultural myths, ancient legends, and folktales, Anita Johnston helps the millions of women preoccupied with their weight discover and address the issues behind their negative attitudes toward food.
The field of neurobiology and eating disorders is one that is being continually studied and understood.
Society has also conditioned us to believe eating disorders afflict only young, white, thin, and affluent women. But in reality, they can affect anyone, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic background, or weight.
“‘Eating disorders.’ Most of us instantly picture a teenaged or college aged girl when we see those words.
Over the past fifteen years, there has been a great increase in the knowledge of eating disorders in sport and effective means of treatment.
This comprehensive, up-to-date book presents the latest research and applied practice to address all of the key issues relating to sport and eating disorders. The book begins by looking at the underlying factors behind the development of disordered eating.
Athletes tend to be highly competitive and disciplined individuals who go to great lengths to excel in their sports.
After his coaches replaced him as starter goalie with a newly-recruited player, Davis decided to get in peak physical condition: all muscle, no fat. He wanted to prove himself to coaches. He ate less and less; he worked out more and more. He lost almost 30 lbs and was eating 500 calories a day.
Learn why eating disorders tend to occur in athletes, and what you can do to recognize and get help for sports-related anorexia and bulimia.