Binge Eating Disorder is being proposed by the American Psychiatric Association as a new diagnostic category for the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual V that is due to come out in May of 2013. You might want to go check this one out. See if you fit the description. This process is important since ...
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Fitness Through Fasting – A Way?
I ran across a post by someone on the Fitness Through Fasting website. Well, I am the skeptical type and at the same time, I am not opposed to fasting - totally. It has a place in the solution as I have written before. That said I would want orthodox medical folks with ...
New Food Addiction Resource – Food For Life TV
I am always looking for new food addiction resources and ran across this one last week. I thought I would share it with you. It is called Food For Life TV. This week's video is "How Chocolate Can Heal A Broken Heart" - it is not what you think! They have tons of ...
Overweight Food Addicts Experience Fat Discrimination?
Overweight food addicts in the UK seem to be experiencing discrimination according to the Manchester Evening News. According to the article over a quarter of the folks in Manchester are obese...which is higher than the national average. One recovering person reports in the article that he had to deal with "stares, nudges, and outright ...
How To Fight Food Addiction Then Use VLCD?
Learning how to fight food addiction seems to me to be a lifelong issue. At least that has been my experience over my 35 plus years of recovery. One option that you might consider especially in the beginning is a very low calorie diet (VLCD). In addition, this strategy could be used in middle and ...
Food Addiction Statistics?
Maybe food addiction statistics would be of interest to you? Well obesity statistics anyway. I am sure it does not come as news to you that obesity has been on the rise in the USA for 20 years now. I ran across this government website on U.S. obesity trends that make the situation very ...
Meal Replacement Diet For Food Addicts?
A meal replacement diet as a long-term solution for food addiction is probably not the best idea and it has some short-term possibilities and a place in the mix for some. I personally have not used shakes much preferring bars to shakes when I used meal replacements and I did not use these bars for ...