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Most people are familiar with using food as a way to get through a trying time.Known as emotional eating, for some it can be a perfectly appropriate strategy for managing hard feelings, but for others it also can become a problematic way to cope.A team from the UO College of Education looked at the interplay between the way parents feed their children and emotional eating by parents and children, as well as the influence the parent’s gender has on that association. Their goal was to better understand how child emotional eating develops and inform interventions that aim to prevent such…
A new report has found that eating disorders are costing the UK £9.4 billion a year, with many people experiencing loss of income and having to pay high prices for treatment. The Hearts Minds and Genes Coalition has published the report, which highlights the experiences of people living with eating disorders including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder, and how they have been affected by the pandemic. One man aged 24, describes having anorexia for 13 years, which left him hospitalised and unable to work for three years after leaving university, during which time he had no income. “My eating disorder caused…
Most people are familiar with using food as a way to get through a trying time.Known as emotional eating, for some it can be a perfectly appropriate strategy for managing hard feelings, but for others it also can become a problematic way to cope.A team from the UO College of Education looked at the interplay between the way parents feed their children and emotional eating by parents and children, as well as the influence the parent’s gender has on that association. Their goal was to better understand how child emotional eating develops and inform interventions that aim to prevent such…
Social media users who view images of healthy foods that have been heavily endorsed with ‘likes’ are more likely to make healthier food choices, a new study has found. The research, by psychologists from Aston University’s College of Health and Life Sciences, found that study participants who viewed highly liked mock Instagram posts of fruit and vegetables ate a significantly higher proportion of grapes than cookies, with consumption of grapes increasing by 14 percent more calories, compared to those who viewed highly liked high calorie foods. The study, which is published in the scientific journal Appetite, investigated the acute effect…
This post is from Kartini Clinic CEO Morgan O’Toole. Online reviews have become part of our everyday lives. Who hasn’t glanced at the star ratings when Googling a new hair salon or looking for a restaurant to try out? Most of the time, online reviews are just another useful data point when trying to make a casual purchasing decision. But more essential services like doctors’ offices and health clinics come with Facebook and Google ratings these days, too. Kartini Clinic is one of them. Unlike restaurants or hair salons, however, we are strictly limited in our ability to respond to…
This post is from Kartini Clinic CEO Morgan O’Toole. Online reviews have become part of our everyday lives. Who hasn’t glanced at the star ratings when Googling a new hair salon or looking for a restaurant to try out? Most of the time, online reviews are just another useful data point when trying to make a casual purchasing decision. But more essential services like doctors’ offices and health clinics come with Facebook and Google ratings these days, too. Kartini Clinic is one of them. Unlike restaurants or hair salons, however, we are strictly limited in our ability to respond to…
One in five patients with potentially life-threatening eating disorders are forced to pay for private care as part of their treatment, with families leaving their jobs and living off credit cards to support loved ones, a report reveals.The huge financial impact of conditions such as anorexia and bulimia is laid bare in a study showing in England alone the cost of eating disorders was £8bn in 2020, rising to £9.4bn across the UK. This includes a £4.8bn loss of productivity as people cannot work, healthcare costs of £1.7bn and carers costs of £1.1bn.The devastating toll of the pandemic means eating…
Today is the first day of Autumn- which means- disordered eating season is upon us. There are so many reasons for it, especially now after a year and a half of lock-down- when people have become obsessed with their Covid weight gain and ads for diets and workout plans are popping up everywhere. It starts on October 1st, the day that Starbucks introduces its pumpkin spice latte and other limited edition coffee drinks. They begin to tempt us with warnings that it will only be here for a limited time. It messes with our scarcity psychology and causes us to…
The Kohm-Hahn family: Traci and husband James Kohm with Ella, Lauren, Aiden, Caleb (2nd from right) and Lily. Read about one family’s experience with an extreme form of selective eating called avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID). As a child with allergies to milk, egg, soy, peanut, tree nuts and several other foods, Caleb Hahn knew that lots of foods were off limits to him. Still, his mom, Traci Kohm, tried to introduce Caleb to a wide variety of safe options – fruits, vegetables, meats, grains and sweets. Time and time again, Caleb refused all but a handful of foods. He’d…
“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?” —Leo Tolstoy Languages reveal their true colors—from their glory to their limits—whenever we rely on them to articulate emotions. Streams of words don’t always capture the depths of our despair or the heights of our joy. Other times, a few lone words beaded together in the right way can help us decipher the cryptic contents of our hearts. Faithfully translating our inner states into neat parcels of information legible by the outer world is a precarious affair. Things are bound to get lost or added along the way. Yet,…