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At the end of 2019, months before anyone would be talking about their #Quarantine15, I was partaking in my favorite coping mechanism of the Trump presidency: rage-baking cookies while listening to politics on NPR. I had gained a few pounds; exhausted from decades of diet culture messaging being shoved in my face, I had also sworn off diets. I was trying to cultivate a deeper understanding of my sometimes fraught relationship with food and my body. Right on cue, I heard a Noom ad play over NPR’s airwaves.Touting phrases like “stop dieting,” “behavioral science,” and, perhaps most intriguing of all,…
“], “filter”: { “nextExceptions”: “img, blockquote, div”, “nextContainsExceptions”: “img, blockquote, a.btn, a.o-button”} }”> New perk! Get after it with local recommendations just for you. Discover nearby events, routes out your door, and hidden gems when you >”,”name”:”in-content-cta”,”type”:”link”}}”>sign up for the Local Running Drop. Mary Cain. Allie Ostrander. Molly Seidel. As these elites share their experiences with eating disorders publicly, they spark conversations—and questions—about treatment and recovery. Is eating disorder recovery possible? Yes, say experts. How? It’s complicated, especially for runners with deep-seated athletic identities and strong relationships with exercise on top of multifactorial illnesses with genetic, neurobiological, and environmental roots.…
A meta-analysis suggests that certain aspects of emotional intelligence have declined among college students in the past two decades. The study, published in the Journal of Personality, analyzed data from 70 studies conducted among college students in the Western world between 2003 and 2018.Western culture has undergone remarkable change in the past 20 years. For one, a rise in economic liberalism and free-market capitalism has encouraged an environment of competitive individualism. Secondly, social media emerged and has grown rapidly, along with smartphone technology. Studies suggest these changes may have led to generational differences in personality, revealing generational rises in narcissism,…
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Written by Natalie Doan, MSc, PhD candidate, School of Public Health SciencesEating disorders are increasingly understood to affect people of any weight and size, as well as a diverse range of people with different racial and cultural backgrounds, gender identity, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status. Given the diversity in which eating disorders can present, it is important to highlight the heterogeneity in disordered eating experiences and identify the links to systems of power and oppression. When discussing the social determinants related to eating disorders, it is important to highlight the systems of power that undergird inequities. For example, when discussing…
Podcast Transcript Intro:There’s so much health advice out there, lots of different voices and opinions, but who can you trust? Trust the experts, the world’s brightest medical minds, our very own Cleveland Clinic experts. We ask them tough, intimate health questions so you get the answers you need. This is the Health Essentials Podcast brought to you by Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland Clinic Children’s. This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not intended to replace the advice of your own physician. Molly Shrodes:Hi, and thanks for joining us for this episode of the Health Essentials Podcast. My name…
Jazz Jennings has been open in the past about struggling with her weight, pointing out before she had bottom surgery that she needed to lose 30 pounds. Now, she’s sharing in a trailer for season seven of her reality show, I Am Jazz, that she’s dealing with binge-eating as she prepares to enter her freshman year at Harvard University.Jazz says that she has difficulty being active because of her weight and that she’s not getting the best feedback from her family. Jazz Jennings has been open in the past about struggling with her weight, pointing out before she had bottom…
Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder are the three most common types of disordered eating behaviors. They no longer make up the entirety of eating disorder diagnoses, though, as researchers gain a deeper understanding of these conditions. There are a few more eating disorders than these main three. Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is one of these lesser-known eating disorder diagnoses. People with ARFID restrict food intake to specific types of foods or limit the amount of food they eat. Unlike anorexia, though, many individuals with the condition aren’t necessarily concerned with their body image or weight.…
Some days it feels like the first six months of 2021 never happened. The countless needles, IVs, meds, PICC lines, surgeries feel like a distant nightmare. I was in survival mode. Other days, I sit with anxiety pounding my chest *knowing* the infection is back or something else will be wrong. I’ve avoided writing, feeling or slowing down since my last surgery on May 20th. It was like I rolled out of the hospital and sprinted back into the chaos of life, allowing the busyness to protect me from trauma’s shadow lurking behind me. I didn’t want to face it.…
KEY POINTSWomen are sometimes excluded in research due to “ovarian hormone fluctuation”The researchers detected fluctuations in the emotions of men and womenThey found “little-to-no differences” between the men and women’s emotional fluctuationsThere’s a widely held belief saying women are more emotional than men. There’s no truth to it, according to a new study.Women have typically been thought of as being more emotional and, historically, have even been excluded from participating in research, the authors of a study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, wrote. This exclusion, the researchers explained, is partly because of the belief that their “ovarian hormone fluctuations”…