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Between 8% and 18% of cancer patients have diabetes, a chronic condition that impacts the ability to regulate blood sugar levels. And, for many patients, diabetes management takes a backseat to cancer treatment. But managing your blood sugar levels can help your overall health. We spoke with Erma Levy, a research dietitian at MD Anderson, about what cancer patients with diabetes should know. Can cancer treatment affect blood sugar levels? Radiation therapy, steroids and some types of chemotherapy may impact your blood sugar levels. And uncontrolled high blood sugar can lead to dehydration, which is a frequent side effect of chemotherapy. …
PMS tends to throw my eating habits a curveball, as I can go from 0 to ravenous in 60 seconds. My stomach gurgles. I get light-headed. And no matter what I eat or how much, I spend a day or two feeling like I need to eat more. Apparently this is pretty standard for some women. When researchers from the National Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology studied the eating habits of 30 women between the ages of 18 and 45 a few years back, they found their calorie intake could spike by nearly 500 calories around ovulation and again…
Sophie* developed an eating disorder when she was 11 years old. With the help of child eating disorder services, she got better and by the age of 16 had achieved a stable weight. But her A-levels proved tough and she relapsed. This time, she had to face the challenge of navigating adult eating disorder services as a vulnerable teenager. When she was finally referred to me nearly eight months after her relapse, she was 19 years old with a BMI of nine.I worked as a consultant psychiatrist in child eating disorders before moving to adult services in Oxford. When the…
I feel so sad sometimes thinking about how many women are still struggling with the eating disorder, with deeply entrenched addictive patterns, programmed with negativity. I have so much compassion and yet my heart just cracks wide open and a fire gets ignited in my belly– because it means I have MUCH more work to do here in the world… 🙏🏻 I remember being in a place where you might be at now– hating myself so much, hating life, hating my body and most of all hating myself. Hate is such a strong word, and yet I truly had so many…
Developing healthy body image is a bit of a concoction… 1 part acceptance, 2 parts forgiveness, 10 parts self-compassion and so on.To date, I have not met anyone who has never had periods of poor body image. I’m not saying they don’t exist, I just think it’s a human thing to experience at some point in life. And, unfortunately, for many, this experience is more than just a “period” in their life, versus what they have always known or experience day to day.Often, we get caught up in what our body looks like… or perhaps, what it doesn’t look like.…
Source: Pressmaster Every time you “lose it,” whether by becoming overwhelmed by anger, laughter, or anxiety, your happiness and your relationships stand to suffer. It’s okay for toddlers to become instantly enraged when a sibling takes a toy away from them, or for teenagers to get a case of the giggles at a friend’s faux pas. As adults, we’re expected to hold our emotions in check, or at least cover them up, so they don’t make us look foolish, immature, or unreliable. A considerable amount of research on emotion regulation attempts to identify the factors that determine who is able…
A huge part of my recovery has been about learning to believe in myself. In a way, writing my blog was a form of personal development for me in the earlier stages of my recovery as it was through motivating others to start believing in themselves, that I actually started doing it myself. In a way, it was kind of like ‘faking it until I made it’. To begin with I didn’t truly believe what I was saying, about being able to recover and love myself for who I was. But eventually, after saying it enough times and encouraging others to do…
An idea that’s been surfacing recently in my work is, “I don’t think I’m sick enough to have an eating disorder” or its cousin, “I didn’t think I was sick enough to get help.”If you’re wondering if you’re sick enough to get help, the answer is yes. If you think that you’re not, sick enough, it’s a good idea to check this out with a professional. The answer might still be yes.People will say to me, “I didn’t think it was that bad because I was eating.” Here’s the thing: everyone with eating disorders eats. People who don’t eat die.Or…
Feeling frustrated [with yourself] and want to create a lasting change in your life? Here’s inspiration for sharing the steps to lasting change… As I’m writing this I’ve just returned from volunteering for 5 days in Los Angeles at Tony Robbins’ Unleash the Power Within (#tonyrobbinsUPW) workshop. A four-day intensive that helps people breakthrough their old limiting beliefs, regain that inner confidence and certainty that they can be, do or have whatever they want in their life. As I was preparing for this trip and on the drive back and forth to LA I began re-listening to his program called…
Getty Images Zayn Malik has clarified comments he made in November last year about having suffered from an eating disorder. The star had previously said that while he was still in One Direction that he’d go for two or three days without eating anything at all. “It wasn’t specifically an eating disorder,” he told The Sunday Times Style. “It was a control thing. Every area of my life was so regimented and controlled. It was the one area where I could say, ‘No, I’m not eating that.'” Control issues have often been cited as an underlying issue of eating disorders,…