The Top Five Digital Health Innovations For Food Tracking and Eating
Your body might be your temple, but in principle, we don’t take good enough care of it – not when it comes to the food we consume. In the Western world, we practically have no idea what we eat and how that affects us. Technological innovations can help us track what’s in our food and what we should eat based on our genetic background. In this article, we enlisted the top trends concerning eating and food tracking.
Let’s talk about food.
Almost 700 million people have some health problem with food or eating
For some, eating is the most natural process on Earth. You are hungry, you get some n...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 30, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Future of Food Genomics Health Sensors & Trackers digital health eating Innovation Medicine parkinson scanner technology wearable wearables gc3 food sensors food scanner food tracking food trackers digital innovation Source Type: blogs
Sarah ’ s Wheat Belly health and life transformation
Sarah’s story reminds us how the simple matter of diet can shape our lives for decades, affecting energy, body weight, emotional health–just about every aspect of our physical and social lives before we finally stumble on the right answers. After many years of struggling with poor health, relying on prescription medications that never addressed underlying causes, it therefore came as a surprise to Sarah that she could indeed achieve magnificent health without the drugs by simply following the diet programmed into human genetic code and supplementing nutrients that are deficient in modern life.
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 28, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open grain-free Inflammation joint pain wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Should You Pay Attention to Body Image in 2020?
Body image is a concept that never seems to go away, no matter how far we progress. It seems to be human nature to judge people on the way they look, thus creating an atmosphere of negativity and influencing the feelings of others.
I think no matter what, we are always going to pay attention to our own body image, but it’s time that we learn to do so in a more positive manner. Younger generations find themselves on the internet more often these days, paying attention to the way celebrities or models look, and so they try to mimic this as they are conditioned to think that bodies we see on television or online are norm...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - October 22, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Umer Bilal Tags: confidence featured happiness health and fitness psychology self-improvement body image body positivity Source Type: blogs
The Power of Self-Compassion to Heal Pandemic Eating
During this time of quarantine and lockdown from the coronavirus, people with emotional eating problems have found themselves increasingly overeating, bingeing, and dieting. It makes sense: we are more bored, depressed, anxious, and less active. Cultivating self-compassion may be the single most important ingredient to get your eating back on track.
If you binged last night should you still be compassionate to yourself this morning? Or if you didn’t work out yesterday like you promised to do should you still have self-compassion? Shouldn’t you punish yourself for your bad behavior with harsh talk so you learn your less...
Source: World of Psychology - August 20, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mary Anne Cohen, LCSW Tags: Binge Eating Eating Disorders Bingeing Body Image coronavirus COVID-19 dieting Emotional Eating Positive Psychology self-compassion Self-Talk Source Type: blogs
Food insecurity, COVID-19, and eating disorders
In this study, participants with the highest level of food insecurity experienced:
higher levels of binge eating (uncontrollable eating)
a higher likelihood of having any type of eating disorder, such as anorexia or bulimia
dietary restraint for any reason, for example, avoiding a food group, such as carbohydrates, or types of foods, such as desserts
weight self-stigma, assessed through responses to a questionnaire that measured self-devaluation and fear of experiencing stigma (sample statement: “I would never have any problems with weight if I were stronger”)
high levels of worry, also measured through responses to a...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - August 17, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, FAAP, FACP, FTOS Tags: Coronavirus and COVID-19 Health Health care disparities Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Midlife Eating Disorders in Quarantine
With the spread of coronavirus in the United States, our lives are changing in ways we never anticipated. Along with feeling heightened emotions like anxiety, uncertainty or even panic, many are experiencing unprecedented changes to their daily lives. Mass unemployment and job insecurity have impacted millions of Americans, and many of whom are fortunate to remain secure in their employment have adjusted to a new work-from-home lifestyle.
While such disruptions are harmful for everyone, quarantine has been particularly difficult for those who suffer from an eating disorder, such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and b...
Source: World of Psychology - July 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Laura McLain, PsyD Tags: Anorexia Binge Eating Bulimia Eating Disorders Body Image coronavirus COVID-19 diet culture Emotional Eating Isolation pandemic panic buying social distancing teletherapy Source Type: blogs
Sexual Abuse and Eating Disorders: What ’s the Connection?
What is the connection between sexual abuse and developing an eating disorder? Why does bingeing, purging, starving and chronic dieting become a “solution” for the abuse?
Abuse shatters the sacred innocence of a child and often becomes a primary trigger for an eating disorder. The survivor of sexual abuse becomes plagued with confusion, guilt, shame, fear, anxiety, self-punishment, and rage. She (or he) seeks the soothing comfort, protection, and anesthesia that food offers. Food, after all, is the most available, legal, socially sanctioned, cheapest mood altering drug on the market! And emotional eating is a mood alte...
Source: World of Psychology - June 25, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mary Anne Cohen, LCSW Tags: Abuse Eating Disorders Trauma Anorexia Binge Eating Bulimia Sexual Abuse Source Type: blogs
The Unique Benefits of Teletherapy
Teletherapy is seen as an inferior alternative to in-person therapy. But while it has some drawbacks, online therapy has plenty of pluses, too.
First the drawbacks: Some clients miss their therapist’s office, which they associate with safety and healing, said Jodi Aman, LCSW, a psychotherapist in Rochester, N.Y. Technical difficulties—from poor internet connections to visibility issues–can interrupt sessions. Finding a private, quiet space at home can be challenging.
Still, many people prefer teletherapy. As psychologist Regine Galanti, Ph.D, pointed out, the biggest myth about teletherapy is that it’s “a plan B ...
Source: World of Psychology - June 18, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Disorders Mental Health and Wellness Psychotherapy Treatment teletherapy Source Type: blogs
Why Can ’t I Just Love My Body?
Clients frequently come to me with negative thoughts and feelings around their body and want to work on their body image issues. They want to get to a place of loving their body and feeling good in their body. Or at the very least, they want less of the self-critical noise in their heads and more body acceptance.
Many of these folks have had eating disorders or disordered eating and have made huge progress away from restrictive eating and toward fully honoring their desires and needs to eat. They have also already tried the classic “body image builders” like trying to be grateful for what their body can do, f...
Source: World of Psychology - May 15, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Danielle B. Grossman, MFT Tags: Anorexia Binge Eating Bulimia Eating Disorders body acceptance Body Image dieting Self-Esteem Source Type: blogs
What My Disordered Eating Reveals about the Brain
Conclusion
One positive of my experience with eating disorders is that it gave me personal experience with the brain, and it allowed me to experience first-hand what the science says about the brain. Change is hard because the brain has multiple parts competing for control, and it has pathways that control our behavior. Only “why” power can help us during those tough moments. Change is hard, but it’s not impossible, and the best time to start is today. (Source: World of Psychology)
Source: World of Psychology - April 7, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kevin Burciaga Tags: Binge Eating Bulimia Eating Disorders Habits Personal Binge Eating Disorder Bingeing binging Impulsive Behavior Purging Source Type: blogs
Coping with an Eating Disorder During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Eating disorders build themselves on perceived feelings of control. Yet, as we find ourselves in the midst of unprecedented and uncertain times, with the coronavirus pandemic, how do those with eating disorders manage?
As an individual with an eating disorder, I struggle with the Christmas season, mostly as my ‘safe’ foods are suddenly superseded with aisles of turkeys and potatoes and normal life grinds to a halt for a day as shops close and families and friends gather at home. Coronavirus feels like this, but every single day and on a much bigger scale.
Food aisles are being stripped bare by panic buyers and some ...
Source: World of Psychology - March 20, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Esther Dark Tags: Anorexia Binge Eating Bulimia Eating Disorders Motivation and Inspiration Personal coronavirus COVID-19 Isolation social distancing Source Type: blogs
Psychology Around the Net: February 29, 2020
This article discusses the concept of intuitive eating, where no food is off limits, and how it dramatically changed the life of Harriet, a woman with PCOS who has struggled with obesity since childhood.
We Tell Suicidal People to Go to Therapy. So Why Are Therapists Rarely Trained in Suicide?: Suicide is the nation’s 10th leading cause of death, yet training for mental health practitioners who treat suicidal patients — psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, among others — is dangerously inadequate, says the author. This article thoroughly probes this topic and explores what can be done.
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Source: World of Psychology - February 29, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Traci Pedersen Tags: Anorexia Binge Eating Depression Disorders Eating Disorders General Mental Health and Wellness Psychiatry Psychology Psychology Around the Net Psychotherapy Self-Help Anorexia Nervosa Binge Eating Disorder Bulimia Nervosa cor Source Type: blogs
The end of overeating?
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 27, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle binge eating bulimia food addictions Gliadin opiates overeating Source Type: blogs
Anorexia Stole My Childhood, and More
It was in fourth and fifth grade that I decided I didn’t want to grow up. I wanted to be the shortest in my classes, and I even walked around with bent knees to appear shorter. I remember competing with friends to see who could come closest to being able to fit our hands around our waists. I remember having a friend over and watching a Richard Simmons “Sweatin’ to the Oldies” exercise video and then having us both get on the scale to compare weights.
I was just a little girl and I don’t know where this idea came from. This was way back in the mid-90s when there were few resources for children ...
Source: World of Psychology - December 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: K.M. Capper Tags: Anorexia Binge Eating Bulimia Eating Disorders Personal Body Image Source Type: blogs
Looking Back: My Advice on Starting Eating Disorder Recovery
I dial the number hastily written on a post-it note that I’ve had shoved in my wallet for two weeks. Sweat starts to bead on my palms as I wait for the line to ring. “Hello,” a soft spoken woman answers. “I’d like to make an appointment,” I utter as my voice shakes. “Okay, let’s do that,” she says as she trails off into a line of questions to see what exactly I need an appointment for and whether she’s the one to help me or not.
I’m in my thirties, a mother of three, with ten years of recovery under my belt. I thought all of this was behind me. But it crept back into my life when I had arrogantly ...
Source: World of Psychology - November 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Vanna Winters Tags: Anorexia Binge Eating Bulimia Eating Disorders Personal Treatment Source Type: blogs