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In the United States, people have become more conscious of eating healthy to reduce the risk of obesity, high blood pressure, and type 2 diabetes. A possible negative side effect of those healthy behaviors is food guilt. Food guilt refers to experiencing stress and guilt after eating certain foods, which can result in anxiety, shame, and unhealthy ways of eating. Read on to learn more about food guilt and get tips to help stop it and restore a more balanced relationship with food. When a person experiences food guilt, they have feelings of shame about what they’re eating. Food guilt…

In the Netflix series Everything Now, recovery from an eating disorder is anything but simple or straightforward. The show’s opening scene introduces viewers to Mia (Sophie Wilde), a 16-year-old who’s just completed several months of in-patient treatment. She is eager to rejoin the world, but she’s about to embark on an unpredictable journey that looks far different than most Hollywood depictions of eating disorder recovery. Prime Day deals you can shop right now Products available for purchase here through affiliate links are selected by our merchandising team. If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an…

Image By: Robert M. Califf, M.D., Commissioner of Food and Drugs Last month was the one-year anniversary of the White House Conference and National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition and Health. The FDA continues to make great progress on our nutrition efforts, which can help to combat the epidemic of diet-related disease. The conference, and the corresponding National Strategy, brought a much needed, renewed focus on the role that diet and nutrition play in our health. I’d like to catch up with you today about important, new developments in this effort.  Front and center is our work to develop a front-of-package…

Zachary S. Appenzeller, PsyD, has known since his youth what he wanted to do as a career. In fact, he comes from a long line of family who worked in the profession of helping people. “My mother and grandfather were both psychologists, so it’s been something I was always exposed to growing up,” said Appenzeller, who is also an assistant professor at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. “While not pushed to follow in their footsteps, I found myself drawn to the field from an early age. For as long as I can remember, helping others was just always what I…

[TW: This article discusses the general topic of eating disorders and how they are portrayed in To the Bone, Gossip Girl, Black Swan, and Ginny and Georgia.] The Big Picture Films often fail to accurately portray the diversity and prevalence of eating disorders, focusing primarily on rich, thin, white women, which limits awareness and understanding. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are the most commonly depicted eating disorders, but even these portrayals often lack accuracy and fail to capture the full range of symptoms and experiences. Eating disorder storylines in films and shows are sometimes used as plot devices or overlooked,…

14.Oct Fruits, milk, vegetables, and many other essential food items have been subject to rising costs in the last year in India. Given that pulses and cereals account for the bulk of consumers’ food supply, these items have also experienced increased inflation. While food inflation for urban consumers is more significant at 10.4 per cent, rural inflation is still high at 7.02 per cent. According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) ’s 2023 global food security report, an estimated 74 per cent of the Indian population cannot afford a healthy diet. Food prices have been climbing in India since 2019, and…

When 18-year-old Shabtaab Singh Khaira snored at night, his parents thought he was sleeping soundly. Little did they know that at 93 kg, his obesity had resulted in sleep apnea that had gone unnoticed. Till the day he choked and woke up with a start, the first indication that his breathing had stopped 21 times in an hour and plunged his oxygen saturation to 70 per cent! But today with weight loss, a corrected lifestyle regimen, exercise and a minor correction of his epiglottis that was closing his airways while sleeping, this commerce student is back to classes at Symbiosis,…

With an aim to improve sustainability of employee’s occupational development, it is important for organizations to cultivate work environments supportive of employees’ mental health and well-being. Consequently, emotions in work have received a burgeoning rise of research attention in the field of organizational and management psychology. Emotional labor, first proposed by sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild in 1983, is the idea of managing emotions to create a publicly appropriate display according to the occupational demands1. It is regarded as the third kind of work role, parallel to physical labor and intellectual labor, that is most prototypical in front-line jobs which require…

TO OUR MENTAL HEALTH MOMENT NOW – APPROXIMATELY 24 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES SUFFER FROM AN EATING DISORDER. IT IS AMONG THE DEADLIEST MENTAL ILLNESSES, SECOND ONLY TO OPIOID ADDICTION, RESULTING IN APPROXIMATELY 10,200 DEATHS EACH YEAR. HERE TO DISCUSS IS LINDSAY SUSI, THE CLINICAL DIRECTOR FOR SWEETSER’S NEW ENGLAND EATING DISORDERS PROGRAM. LINDSAY – THANK YOU FOR COMING IN TODAY. SOME MIGHT FIND IT SURPRISING TO LEARN THAT EATING DISORDERS ARE A FORM OF MENTAL ILLNESS. WHAT MAKES IT A MENTAL ILLNESS? THOUGH EATING DISORDERS DO HAVE A MEDICAL COMPONENT, ULTIMATELY WHAT IS CREATING THE BEHAVIOR IS…

We are so excited to announce the launch of specialized eating disorder support for Spring Health members and their families through new referral partnerships with leading virtual care providers.Eating disorders are estimated to affect approximately 9% of all Americans in their lifetime—or nearly 30 million people today. These conditions are especially prevalent among adolescents and young adults, and they often occur alongside other mental health challenges. Eating disorders are not only dangerous for those with the illness, but they can also be highly disruptive for families through the stress and grief they often cause parents and caregivers. Moreover, treatments for these conditions are conventionally highly…