The Opioid Crisis – In Your Cupboard
The opioid epidemic of the last 20 years has served to illustrate the powerful addictive properties of anything that binds to opioid receptors of the human brain. Lives are ruined by opioid addiction, more than 100 deaths now occurring every day from overdose as people either take more and more to overcome the partial tolerance or new potent drugs like fentanyl make their way into street versions. Drugs such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, and fentanyl bind to the brain’s opioid receptors provoking a “high” while causing the user to desire more opioids as partial tolerance develops. And make no mistake: Much o...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 30, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle addiction addictive eating disorder opiates opioids undoctored Source Type: blogs
The Eating Disorder Is Voldemort: On Using Metaphors in Treatment
When some patients start treatment for an eating disorder it can be emotionally and physically uncomfortable. In my work as a therapist I try to educate my patients as to why this feeling is normal. On top of the patient’s discomfort, sometimes it can be hard for loved ones to understand what someone with an eating disorder is going through while in treatment. Therapists routinely use metaphors for both of these reasons, in my opinion. The use of metaphors makes something that was previously unknown, relatable. I think it can be helpful to relate new concepts and hard topics to something familiar in order to make it easi...
Source: World of Psychology - January 21, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gabrielle Katz, LCSW Tags: Anorexia Binge Eating Books Bulimia Creativity Eating Disorders Health-related Psychology Treatment Women's Issues Binge Eating Disorder Bingeing Body Image Source Type: blogs
Depression, Loneliness, and the Road to Unhealthy Eating
How to manage unhealthy eating habits when loneliness strikes.
When you’re feeling depressed, it really can feel so much worse when you’re sitting there all alone, without anyone else to talk to, and especially at night. (Have you ever noticed that your depression feels worse after the sun goes down?)
How do I know this? I’ve been there before! I’ve also had the personal experience of how the feel-bad state of depression easily leads to emotional eating, food addiction, and binge eating.
Signs Your Depression Is Getting More Serious (and It’s Time to Reach Out)
Why does depression and unhealt...
Source: World of Psychology - January 18, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Depression Disorders Eating Disorders Habits Health-related Inspiration & Hope Publishers YourTango Being alone Binge Eating Eating Habits Emotional Eating Food Addiction lonliness unhealthy eating Source Type: blogs
Roly Poly
What is it about flour, i.e., the starch, bran, and germ of seeds of grass plants, such as modern Triticum species of wheat, that makes them extravagantly fattening? The weight gain effect of modern wheat is so powerful that I call it the perfect obesogen, a food that is perfectly crafted to cause obesity.
As a society, we have conducted a massive and inadvertent experiment. Based on the flawed logic that emerged from “white flour is bad, whole grains are good” epidemiological observations (or what I would label “white flour is bad, whole grains are less bad” observations), the American diet, thanks...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 13, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle blood sugar edema gluten grains Inflammation insulin opiates Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
How to Stay in Control When Recovering from Eating Disorders
If you have struggled with an eating disorder like anorexia, you most-likely know how to plan. By extracting a very basic human need, the brain must use a maximum amount of energy to deny instinct. Calorie counting, eating only at certain times of the day, obsessing over exercise routines, and meticulously shopping for the “right” kinds of food, are all examples of how an eating disorder can shape time.
Most people who struggle with eating disorders are ambivalent about recovery. They may want to have a life that doesn’t follow such rigidity, but worry about losing control. There are many reasons why some...
Source: World of Psychology - December 4, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rebecca Lee Tags: Anorexia Binge Eating Bulimia Eating Disorders Impulse Control Self Control Source Type: blogs
Eating Disorders Breed Disconnection
I have worked with hundreds of women who struggle with disordered eating and poor body image. Some clients obsessively track calories or Weight Watcher’s points. Some try to restrict their food intake all day then order large quantities of food to binge on at night. Some purge after meals or excessively exercise. Others restrict entire food groups. Some have tried every fad diet. Some say mean things to themselves when they look in the mirror, in hopes that this will motivate change. Some have found a community — in Weight Watchers or Overeaters Anonymous — to hold them accountable or to reinforce their guilt...
Source: World of Psychology - November 19, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tory Krone, AM, LCSW Tags: Anorexia Binge Eating Bulimia Eating Disorders Habits Health-related Psychotherapy Self-Esteem Stigma Binge Eating Disorder Bingeing Body Image Disconnection Isolation Shame Source Type: blogs
What Are the Signs of Binge Eating Disorder?
Binge eating is often something we have done at one time or another. Perhaps at a celebration or a birthday, we have continued to eat just for the taste or because it feels good. Binge Eating Disorder is different.
The signs of Binge Eating Disorder include:
Feeling uncomfortably full while continuing to eat
Eating a lot of food quickly despite lack of hunger
Feeling out of control
Shame surrounding food
If you eat more than others during the same situation or meal time and have binged at least once a week for three months, you may have Binge Eating Disorder.
Binge Eating Disorder is the most common eating disorder in th...
Source: World of Psychology - November 7, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rebecca Lee Tags: Addiction Binge Eating Eating Disorders Health-related Bingeing Food Addiction Obesity overeating Source Type: blogs
Gender Differences: Some Thoughts on Female Embodiment and Disordered Eating
In September 2016, Psychology Today ran a cover story about narcissism. The accompanying visual was of a young, white, conventionally attractive woman preening into her cellphone. She was wearing a tight little mini skirt and had the body of a fashion model. Leaving aside the tedious misogyny of this image — with some difficulty, but that’s not what this article is about — I do want to say something about the host of assumptions about women and their bodies encoded in this image.
What are those assumptions? That stereotypically attractive women (that is, women who are white, young, small, and in clothing that...
Source: World of Psychology - October 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Natasha Distiller, PhD, MA, MFT Tags: Anorexia Binge Eating Bulimia Disorders Eating Disorders Stigma Women's Issues Bingeing female embodiment Gender Differences gender inequality Objectification overeating Purging relationship with food Self-Esteem self-worth Source Type: blogs
“ Bread Is My Crack ”
People have said this to me many times over the years.
Here’s another Wheat Belly Basics conversation for newcomers or a refresher for the seasoned Wheat Belly follower.
One of the reason that wheat and related grains are such effective causes of weight gain is that they contain a protein, gliadin, that, upon digestion, yields opioid peptides that bind to the opiate receptors of the human brain. These opioid peptides are responsible for generating addictive relationships with food, as well as behavioral and emotional effects.
Stop eating grains and an opiate withdrawal syndrome ensues: nausea, headache, fatigue, depr...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 29, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle addiction appetite stimulant binge eating bulimia Detox eating disorders gluten gluten-free grain-free grains health opiates opioids Weight Loss wellness withdrawal Source Type: blogs
Podcast: What Does Binge Eating Disorder Feel Like?
In this episode of the Psych Central Show, hosts Gabe Howard and Vincent M. Wales discuss Binge Eating Disorder. At his heaviest, Gabe weighed 550 pounds. He describes in detail how he went from a “normal-sized” guy to being morbidly obese, his return to being “normal-sized,” and addresses the question of whether he was, in fact, addicted to food. During the second half of the show, our hosts welcome Lisa, a woman who was with Gabe during this period of his life. She shares her experience of what it was like being with someone with binge eating disorder and how he finally confronted it.
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Source: World of Psychology - August 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gabe Howard Tags: Binge Eating General The Psych Central Show Source Type: blogs
To the point: Here ’s what parents should know and do about Netflix’s To the Bone
Michael Rich, MD, MPH
The Mediatrician®
Even before the debut of the new Netflix original movie To the Bone, parents and professionals were worried, asking The Mediatrician® about what they need to know — and whether children and teens should watch. The movie, which depicts the story of a young woman’s struggle with anorexia nervosa, has been the subject of many public and private discussions about eating disorders and how they are dealt with in popular culture. Already reeling from the portrayal of suicide in 13 Reasons Why, parents have concerns: Is the film safe for my child to watch? Can it encourage disordered e...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - August 10, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Center on Media and Child Health Tags: Children's Health Diet and Weight Loss Mental Health Parenting Source Type: blogs
Increase Your Body Confidence: 3 Steps that You Can Practice Today
Americans spend billions of dollars on weight loss and workout programs in order to try to achieve the “perfect body.” Advertisements promise confidence, improved self-esteem, impeccable health and romance once the perfect body is achieved. The myth that we are presented with is that we are just not trying hard enough if we aren’t thin.
The ads, and even our healthcare system, do not acknowledge the scientific evidence that body size and shape are under significant genetic control. Body composition is a lot more complex than simply calories-in and calories-out.
What is body image?
Body image is can be ...
Source: World of Psychology - August 7, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alison Pelz, LCSW, RD Tags: Anorexia Binge Eating Bulimia Eating Disorders Habits Happiness Mental Health and Wellness Mindfulness Minding the Media Self-Esteem Body Image body shaming Confidence Nonverbal communication Objectification Perfectionism s Source Type: blogs
Full or Fulfilled? Another Way of Looking at Eating Disorders
A young woman shared a brilliant insight into what she perceives as a long term eating disorder. She said, “I think I eat until I am so full that I want to burst, because I don’t feel fulfilled in my life.” She is talented, caring, devoted to family and friends, intelligent, creative and loving… to everyone but the woman in the mirror. As she said this, I was astounded since it so perfectly illustrates what for many is the doorway to food intake patterns that are unhealthy.
Over the years, she has binged and purged, as well as restricted food in an attempt to “have a perfect body.” There was a time when...
Source: World of Psychology - August 6, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW Tags: Anorexia Binge Eating Bulimia Eating Disorders Mindfulness Personal Stress Anorexia Nervosa Binge Eating Disorder Bulimia Nervosa Disordered Eating Emotional Eating Food Addiction overeating portion control Self Medicate Source Type: blogs
5 Steps to Change a Habit for a Healthier, Happier Lifestyle
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We all know what it’s like to be a creature of habit. Even if it's subconsciously so, we surely take comfort out of the little rituals we habitually do; Netflix before bedtime; double espresso on our way to work; a jog around the park to clear...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 10, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: CaroAngell Tags: featured free ebook happiness health and fitness productivity tips self confidence self improvement success 10 Habits That Will Make You Happy Today (Even If Life Isn't Going Your Way) 10 tips for success 5 Proven Ways That Being Healt Source Type: blogs
