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When Hannah was seven years old, she told her parents she didn’t want to be afraid of food anymore. She had stopped wanting to go to Girl Scouts, birthday parties, restaurants, family celebrations and even the dinner table. Food was everywhere, and it gave her a lot of anxiety, said her mom, Michelle, who is not sharing their last name for Hannah’s safety. Michelle first saw it when she tried to switch baby Hannah from formula to milk and solids — but Hannah refused. Often, she would pucker her lips shut or spit out the food she…
Diet and health experts say the people most likely behind the surge in popularity are those most at risk A woman eating fermented food at home A warning has been issued by experts regarding a fashionable food that has seen sales skyrocket by nearly 50% due to its touted health benefits. Fermented foods like kimchi, artisan cheese and kefir, have become increasingly popular due to their alleged benefits for gut health, which include improved weight management and heart health. However, these foods, rich in beneficial bacteria, may not be suitable for everyone. A recent study conducted by Ohio State University…
The nutritionist on a new TV show knows all about the stress and shame of being overweight – she was a weekend binge-eater with bulimia. Angharad Griffiths, 45, who hails from Carmarthen but now lives in Bethesda in Gwynedd, has spoken movingly about overcoming her own problems and is now on a mission to promote healthier lifestyles and eating habits on the new S4C reality programme, Tŷ FFIT. She is one of the two specialists on the health transformation series – a spin-off of the popular ‘FFIT Cymru’ which went through six series and is again being made by Caernarfon-based…
Hello friends! And hello final two weeks of pregnancy!! Holy cow, I cannot BELIEVE the amount of life that has been lived in the last week! (And my apologies for not writing last week — it was literally chaos!) WE MOVED OUT!!! That’s right, we moved out and closed on our condo downtown! (And IN with my parents!) As you may remember, the people we bought our dream house from still have to find a house, and to make our offer stand out from the FIVE other offers, we gave them until Oct. 1 to surrender the keys and move…
Eating disorder sufferer Faye Bingham says as a teenager sometimes it took six members of hospital staff to insert her feeding tube. (Image supplied)Faye Bingham was only 13 when her eating disorder first saw her admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Depressed and refusing to eat, her weight had plummeted to a dangerously low level and doctors said she needed intensive treatment.“I was really underweight and malnourished and had so little energy that I felt like a zombie,” says Bingham, now 26 who lives with husband Andy, 31, a design engineer in Kidderminster.“I needed to be fed by a nasogastric tube…
When you buy through our links, Business Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more The best dry cat foods are a convenient, affordable way to meet your kitty’s nutritional needs. Cats are obligate carnivores, which means they mainly eat meat and must get essential amino acids, like taurine, from animal protein sources. Appropriate cat foods have the right amount of meat protein for a cat’s life stage.To select the best dry food for kittens, adult cats, and seniors, we evaluated hundreds of recipes to find foods that meet several nutritional standards that the veterinarians we spoke to recommend. One…
When you buy through our links, Business Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn moreCats might not know what a love language is, but they sure love it when we feed them tasty food. Given the many brands and recipes on the market, choosing one of the best wet cat foods can be overwhelming. Ultimately, the ideal canned recipe for your cat is nutritionally complete and balanced and appropriate for your kitty’s life stage and any health issues they may have.We spoke with veterinarians and animal nutritionists to find out what to look for in wet food for kittens, adult…
For low-income Californians learning healthier eating habits, smoothies can be a way to start. That’s what doctors, researchers and patients found in Alameda County. There, as I wrote in a column earlier this month, doctors are prescribing healthy foods to people with chronic diseases. Through a pilot program called Recipe4Health, one of the lessons for patients was that blending leafy greens into a drink helps manage blood sugar. Blending smoothies got them to appreciate the taste of vegetables, in a form that was easy to prepare. Those who had not been making salads or cooking vegetables became more interested in…
“Hi, I’m Justin. I’m new here,” I introduced myself. What the hell was I doing there? I felt like Sasquatch at a ballet recital. At 22 years old, 200 pounds of lean muscle mass and 4 percent body fat, I sat and listened to women describe their anorexia. Which is the most fatal mental health condition. Organ failure, wasting away, suicide. It’s deadly serious, more so than any other psychiatric illness. Good thing I’m different, I thought. I was sitting in the group therapy circle at a specialized unit for eating disorders at a hospital in New Jersey—the only man…
The nutritionist on a new TV show knows all about the stress and shame of being overweight – she was a weekend binge-eater with bulimia. Angharad Griffiths, 45, who hails from Carmarthen but now lives in Bethesda in Gwynedd, has spoken movingly about overcoming her own problems. Angharad, a law graduate who has worked in the media for a number of years had a form of bulimia during her teenage years and has had a 30-year battle with yo-yo dieting and binge eating. She said she would “turn weekends into a total binge and then hate myself and start to…