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More than 7 million Americans struggle with binge eating disorder (BED), according to a recent Harvard-based study, yet few of us know much about the condition. Cynthia Bulik, PhD, director of the University of North Carolina Eating Disorders Program and the author of a new book, Crave: Why You Binge Eat and How to Stop, helps shed light on the problem. O: What is binge eating disorder?A binge is when you feel out of control while eating a large amount of food—you’re eating past any need, shame, or embarrassment. It can be a response to stress or anxiety; instead of turning…
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It happens to us all at some point in our journey from sickness to health: we hear a comment, see a magazine article, or wake up with rose-tinted glasses that throw us back into a tirade of insidious thoughts, ideas, and what if I just‘s.What if I just exercise more?What if I just restrict a little bit?What if I lose just ten pounds?What if I just cut out xyz?What if I just…?And of course: I’d feel so much better if I was thinner. STOP.The answer is you won’t. You’ll feel worse. You will always feel worse. Engaging in eating disordered…
When a person’s magnesium level drops too low, they have hypomagnesemia. This can be a problem with the kidneys, nutrient absorption, or diet. To limit symptoms, a person needs to replenish their magnesium and treat the cause of low magnesium.Magnesium is an important mineral and nutrient. Doctors define hypomagnesemia (magnesium deficiency) as a blood serum magnesium level of less than 0.75 millimoles per liter (mmol/l). They can measure this using a blood test.Hypomagnesemia is the medical name for magnesium deficiency. Magnesium is involved in more than 300 of the body’s enzyme reactions. It contributes significantly to the:health of muscles and…
New research in mice has revealed that the brain’s underlying desire for sweet, and its distaste for bitter, can be erased by manipulating neurons in the amygdala, the emotion center of the brain. The study showed that removing an animal’s capacity to crave or despise a taste had no impact on its ability to identify it. The findings suggest that the brain’s complex taste system — which produces an array of thoughts, memories and emotions when tasting food — are actually discrete units that can be individually isolated, modified or removed all together. The research points to new strategies for…
Ann Pearce* scored her dream job in her thirties, moving from teacher to elementary school vice principal—but before long, it was more of a nightmare.First, she was bullied and yelled at by her boss, who was struggling to fulfilll her own duties. Then, just months later, she was unexpectedly shifted into a new and even more demanding role as high school vice principal, a job for which she felt completely unqualified.To compensate, she pulled long hours—70 to 80 per week—and everything but work was put on the back burner. “I was leaving the house before my kids woke up, getting…
In this moving first-person narrative, Armstrong describes her struggle as a black woman with a disorder consistently portrayed as a white woman’s problem. Trying to escape her self-hatred and her food obsession by never slowing down, Stephanie becomes trapped in a downward spiral. Finally, she can no longer deny that she will die if she doesn’t get help, overcome her shame, and conquer her addiction to using food as a weapon against herself. unbearable lightness: A story of loss and gain by portia de rossi Portia de Rossi weighed only 82 pounds when she collapsed on the set of the…
An alternative approach to eating disorder treatment with radically improved recovery rates. My last post painted a fairly sobering picture of the current state of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) research for eating disorders. CBT is often now the go-to treatment, especially for bulimia, and it does work very well for some people. My own experience of CBT for anorexia was extremely positive. But with maximum 45% remission rates, roughly 30% relapse rates, remission and recovery defined with lamentable laxity, and relapse rates sometimes misleadingly concealed, there’s a lot of room for improvement. article continues after advertisement So, what if I…
An alternative approach to eating disorder treatment with radically improved recovery rates. My last post painted a fairly sobering picture of the current state of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) research for eating disorders. CBT is often now the go-to treatment, especially for bulimia, and it does work very well for some people. My own experience of CBT for anorexia was extremely positive. But with maximum 45% remission rates, roughly 30% relapse rates, remission and recovery defined with lamentable laxity, and relapse rates sometimes misleadingly concealed, there’s a lot of room for improvement. So, what if I told you that there’s…
Astro Roast is a column in which astrologer Danny Larkin drags each sign, but affectionately!! Cancer, you’re not the only sign with intense feelings. We all have them. But moody Cancers feel emotions so strongly that they tend to hijack situations whenever they feel they’re having a “crisis,” which is constantly. Videos by VICE For example, a Cancer can never stop blabbering over brunch about how they still feel abandoned, even though their breakup was three months ago. Meanwhile, another friend just got dumped last night. The world would be an easier place if Cancers could simply remember that other…