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  • Confronting The Psychology Of Food Addiction
    By: Lou Ryan | - When you think about an emotionally traumatic experience, like breaking up with your significant other, is your first impulse to eat something to calm down? Do you think about food when facing other stressful scenarios, such as talking to someone you dont particularly like, or even the idea of just getting through your day? If so, you are showing the classic signs of being addicted to food, and as a result, you are probably also overweight. If you resort to eating as way to combat your emotio ...
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  • Top 10 Foods To Boost Your Energy
    By: Neelima Reddy | - Food treats us right and gives us energy

    The amount of food a person eats during a day is mainly responsible for the amount of energy that person has available for the daily actions.

    For a regular person with a regular job, a normal and not very exhausting activity span, a healthy diet is something very recommendable. Such a diet usually contains a combination of approximated 40% fibers, 30% proteins, 10% water and natural juice or substitutes and only 20% carb ...

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  • If There Was A Cure In Nature
    By: Michael Drabuik | - A common example diseases caused is smoking or alcohol consumption, both of which are not required for life. These two habit forming substances lead to physical and emotional demise such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, liver cirrhosis, depression, fatigue, family destruction; the list goes on and on. We actually believe that we are going to discover a cure, which will condone this behaviour.

    All the #1 killers of the modern North American culture are non-catchable, but ar ...

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  • Indications Of Food Addictions
    By: Carl Jones | - With any addiction associated with dependence, it is important to spot the signs early in order to prevent the disease from worsening. A food addict's recovery could take years, so eliminating the problem in the preliminary stages is the primary means of prevention. Here is a list of warning signs that are linked to food addicts:
    Constantly thinks about food
    Stress and anxiety lead to eating binges
    Becomes worrisome about the thought of food or while eating food ...

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  • Cross Addiction, Individuals Can Easily Become Addicted To Other Substances
    By: Christopher Knight | - Cross addiction is when an individual is addicted to more than one mood or mind altering substance. A person who addicted to drugs or alcohol usually has a 'drug of choice'. Once dependent (either physically, psychologically or both) an individual can easily become addicted to other substances.

    Alcohol is also classed as a drug as this is a mood and mind altering substance, the only difference between alcohol and drugs is one is legal and the others are not.

    When ...

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  • Eating Disorders- A Peep At Past Body Image Programming
    By: k | - Eating Disorders- a Peep at Past Body Image Programming

    Have you ever wondered about how we got to be Fast Food Mamas who always want to diet?

    I thought Id pull a few over-the-top retro ads to share. Look for the connection to eating disorders and the medias part in programming womens body image. Old advertisements are always quirky, but ads from the past can make you laugh. That is, until you realize how some things really havent changed at all ...

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  • Ins And Outs Of Addiction
    By: lisa Simmons | - It results in changes to the matter and chemistry of the brain, a result which varies with the type of addition and can be dramatic or very subtle.

    When Too Much of a Good Thing Becomes Bad:
    Almost any thing one can think of can be the subject of addiction. The amount of time and individual devotes to, engages in, and the reason he/she engages in an activity can become unhealthy and destructive no matter how healthy and worthwhile the action my seem. Two generally accepted c ...

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  • Food Addiction Needs To Be Treated With Special Care
    By: Steve Ballmer | - Food addiction is simply a kind of addiction related to food. This type of addiction is no different from other kinds of addictions. No matter, whether a person is suffering from which type of addiction smoking, alcohol or drug, all of them are caused by a common reason certain chemical imbalance in brain. We can call those people as the patients of food addiction which dont treat food in normal way. The patients of this type of addiction need food in unusual way and for them food can ...
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  • Treating Food Addiction Is Not A Subject To Worry About
    By: Steve Ballmer | - In the current times when alcohol and drug addictions are very common, quite a few people have heard the name of food addiction. Those who are not aware about this disease must be wondering whether such a disease exists or not. So here lets discuss about various facets of this disease.

    Food addiction is simply an obsessive thought concerning food. The affected persons of this disease always want to indulge themselves with foods, even when they are not hungry. The patients o ...

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  • Would You Benefit From The Raw Food Detox Diet?
    By: Peter Ford | - If you embarked on the raw food detox diet, would it do you any good? Take a few minutes to read this article and find out how I believe we would all benefit.

    Raw Food For Detox.

    Throughout the pattern of your typical every day life, you could, perhaps, be exposed to harsh chemicals through your job location. You possibly will be ingesting unsafe ingredients in your food. You are almost certainly breathing in toxic exhaust fumes simply by going outside! All of these el ...

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  • The Problems Of Addiction
    By: Campbell Johnson | - What is Addiction?
    Addiction is obsession, compulsion or psychological dependence on any specific thing. Its a kind of situation in which you cant resist against that particular thing. In this condition people dont think about the side effects of the use of that thing and continues to use them. They feel more pleasure in using them and they dont realize that they are harming their health and social life. To get pleasure from that product they often use ille ...

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  • Is Food Addiction A Craving You Can't Control?
    By: Ion Andrei | - Generally, you notice the food addiction as an overwhelming desire for a particular food, and if you don't consume that food, you experience symptoms like headaches, nausea, and depression. The cravings for that particular food may be both physical and psychological.

    There are different varieties of food addiction.

    We may count among them the compulsive overeating. This happens when someone goes on eating binges that can last several days. The addict may sometimes los ...

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  • Come Back To Your Normal Life From The Curse Of Addictio
    By: Kevin JSmith | - Staying slimmer is the common desire possessed by majority of modern women. But, several among them choose the way of less eating to meet the criterion, which ultimately causes eating disorder. Eating disorder is nothing but a type of obsessive compulsive relation with food. The patients engage in uncontrolled eating or binging.

    This is really a serious mental disease and utmost care needs to be taken to cure the patients. In this regard, an eating disorder treatment center would ...

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  • The Dangers Of Caffeine Addiction!
    By: Mary Anne Durkee | - The first thing that most of us do in the morning is head to the coffee maker. You just can't do without your caffeine dose for the day. If you don't get your cup of coffee, then you are irritable and have overpowering headaches, don't you? If you answered "yes", then you are a definite victim of caffeine addiction! The benefits of coffee have been advocated to mostly all of us. But Caffeine addiction can be considered a serious problem that is often associated with a number of dangers.
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  • Get Relieve From Food And Sex Addiction In Smartest Way
    By: Kevin JSmith | - Addiction is no doubt a pain to the affected persons lives. Among all kinds of addictions, food and sex addictions come on a notable position. There are thousands of people in the US who visit the doctors every day due to suffering from such addictions. In the contemporary times, with the improvement of medical sciences treating these diseases is not at all a major issue for the medical practitioners.

    Food addiction is basically the obsessive or compulsive behavior for fo ...

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  • How To Detox Sugar, Stop Cravings And Addiction To This Sweet Poison
    By: Sandy Halliday | - Shocking statistics reveal that Americans consume about 150 lbs of sugar a year and the UK is not far behind. Even though it has devastating effects on your health food manufacturers continue to put it in every product imaginable. It is considered to be one of the most addictive substances in the world so it's not surprising that people are asking how to detox sugar.

    A sugar detox simply means avoiding sugar to improve your health and lose weight but because it is in so many foo ...

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  • Christian Drug Rehab - The Ultimate Regime For Drug Addicted People
    By: Kevin JSmith | - In the large life of human being, people have to go through different stages, some of them are truly unforgettable, and effect of some of the experiences really stays for ever. The curse of drug addiction is really one of them. Some people suffer from it and some spend their lives with their drug or alcohol addicted near-dear ones. But, those days have gone when people used to roaming around for help of substance abuse treatment. Because, there are several health care centers out there in the US ...
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  • Enjoy Life Not Addictions
    By: Kevin JSmith | - Life is the most beautiful gift that has been bestowed on us. It is well within our rights that we live our lives to the full and enjoy it to the maximum. But at the same time we must be aware that there is a whole lot of difference between enjoying life and becoming addicted to a substance or alcohol or much worse drugs. On many occasions and in many circumstances we might be compelled to take the plunge into the abysmal but alluring on the surface world of drugs, substances and ...
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  • The Truth About Food Addiction: Could You Be A Cupcake Addict?
    By: Joanna Dolgoff | - We are hard-wired to eat high-fat, high-sugar foods. Studies show that these unhealthy treats activate our brains' pleasure zones, prompting us to continue to seek them out. Could fatty, sugary foods be as addictive as drugs and alcohol?

    Brain studies prove that it is harder for some people to resist these unhealthy treats. Dopamine, a neurotransmitter in the brain associated with pleasure and reward, seems to be the main culprit. If the brain dopamine system is not functionin ...

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  • Alcoholism Is A Chronic Illness That Is Often Inherited
    By: zachary skinner | - Alcoholism is a chronic, progressive, and often fatal disease. The craving that an alcoholic feels for alcohol can be as strong as the need for food or water. Alcoholism is a disease that can bottle up an entire family and isolate them from their friends, neighbors and even each other.

    Alcohol addiction is a actually physical dependence upon alcohol, but there are also genetic factors as well as psychological and social factors that contribute to the disease. Family history, emot ...

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  • Treatment Options For Opiate Addictions Include Medication, Rehab And Detox
    By: zachary skinner | - The main form of treatment for opiate addiction treatment is drug rehab. The long-term success rate for those who complete an opiate rehab is very low unfortunately. Pharmacological therapy alone rarely achieves long-term success. Thus Suboxone detox should be combined with concurrent behavioral therapies and with the provision of needed addiction treatment services. Recovery from opiate addiction is a long-term process that often requires multiple attempts and many behavioral changes. Most peop ...
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  • Various Addictions And Disorders Can Now Be Fought Till The End
    By: Kevin JSmith | - We are living in a world that is constantly asking us to prove ourselves at various levels. These times that we are living in at the moment are one of the most liberating as well as enlightening times. All across the world people are breaking the shackles of centuries old traditions, cultures and dogmas and trying to come to terms with reality as it is. In this process of cultural and religious fermentation not everything that is happening can be termed as positive and healthy. One of the most o ...
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  • Your Unhealthy Eating Habits Could Be The Sign Of An Eating Disorder
    By: Kevin JSmith | - In everybody's life there comes a time when that individual is obsessed with his or her weight. A lot of responsibility for this unnatural and unhealthy fixation lies upon the modern day society that puts a lot of emphasis on the physical appearance of an individual. A great amount of responsibility also lies on the media for projecting the people with near flawless bodies as the new age messiahs of the masses. The result of this fascination with having a gorgeous physique has led many teenagers ...
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  • Don't Mask Yourself Behind Numerous Addictions, You Can Do Much Better
    By: Kevin JSmith | - The modern day lifestyle is putting tremendous stress on the world population at large. The hunger to reach the zenith of financial prowess and status along with physical magnificence is making people do things that have grave repercussions on their physical, mental and emotional health. The trend is particularly more evident among youngsters and teenagers who are constantly under tremendous pressure to prove them to their peers and the world. The pressure manifests itself in various types of ad ...
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  • Get That Control Back On Your Diet
    By: Kevin JSmith | - The emphasis in the modern times is greater on materialistic pursuits and bodily pleasures. The modern society is very fast moving towards a state when the individual would come under tremendous stress to be rich and beautiful. This is having a grave impact on the young generation and teenagers. One way in which this trend is manifesting in a disastrous manner is eating disorders among the young and even some adults. The latest research has shown that in majority of the cases the eating disorder ...
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  • Deal With The Underlying Issues: Eating Through Weight Loss Surgery And Addiction Transfer
    By: Daniel Beasley | - In most cases, poor food choices, a less-than-stellar exercise program, genetics, and metabolism are the main contributing factors to obesity. However, many studies are finding that an addiction to food is causing many people to gain weight. This need to consume food is not merely a lack of willpower, but it is a true addiction, similar to alcoholism or drug addiction. A food addict craves food in the same way an alcoholic needs a drink.

    In many cases, a food addict may not be awa ...

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  • Food Addiction Basics
    By: AndrewB | - Food addiction is a type of overeating and is characterized by episodes of uncontrolled eating or binge eating. Overeaters often consume food to the point where they're uncomfortably full. Such binge eating and overeating episodes are generally followed by very strong feelings of guilt and shame. A food addict often tries to keep his or her food addiction a secret and overeats in private. Food addicts generally eat normal in public or in the presence of friends and family in order to hi ...
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  • Eating Disorder Help - How To Overcome An Eating Addiction!
    By: Addiction Freedom Coach | - Well, first lets take a look at the three different types of Food Addictions:

    Compulsive Overeating:

    Compulsive over-eaters generally use food as a coping mechanism to deal with underlying emotional trauma and depression. The binge eating temporarily relieves the stress of these feelings, but unfortunately, it is always followed by more shame, guilt, disgust and depression.

    Anorexia Nervosa:

    People suffering from anorexia generally res ...

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  • The Untold Secret Of The Root Cause Of Addiction
    By: Addiction Freedom Coach | - I believe there to be a commonality or square root in all self destructive behavior, which causes an individual to choose addiction. I also believe that addiction is a choice, and it is not caused by an incurable brain disease, a genetic predisposition, learned behavior or a chemical imbalance. However, before I describe The Square Root of Addiction I want to walk you through each of the existing theories related to addiction. Currently, there are four main theories relating to the cause o ...
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  • Treating Drug And Alcohol Addiction With Auricular Acupuncture
    By: Debbie Charlotte | - Acupuncture has proven to be helpful in the treatment of drug and alcohol addiction. Acupuncture can assist in the detoxification process by easing the pain of detox as well as help repair physiological damage due to long term drug and alcohol abuse. Chronic abuse of drugs and alcohol can deplete the body of its natural endorphins. Endorphins are the body's feel-good hormone and help the body to manage daily pain and stress. Auricular Acupuncture, the manipulation of the outer ear via needling, ...
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  • Help With Addiction - Overcoming Addiction In 60 Days!
    By: Addiction Freedom Coach | - Of course you want to overcome your addiction, but you just dont know where to turn for the right addiction help. Maybe youve wanted to overcome your addiction, but have been afraid of the societal stigma and shame that accompanies traditional treatment programs? You may have even tried other treatment programs only to find them unsuccessful, or maybe youve achieved recovery only to find yourself relapsing and returning to addiction!

    This is where I come in. You see, I've ...

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  • Internet Addiction And Its Symptoms
    By: Bertil Hjert | - Internet has become the best source for any information under the sun these days. People prefer suiting the World Wide Web for all their important tasks from finding out an information, shopping, education, selling and even looking for a perfect match.

    However, some people have developed a kind of addiction to this problem. This type of addiction is known as internet addiction.

    Internet addiction is described as an impulse control disorder that does not involve use ...

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  • Are Food Addictions Affecting Your Health?
    By: Chris Marshall | - What are food addictions? Is your health affected by them? If you have an unhealthy relationship with food, you may have a food addiction.

    Instead of having a healthy relationship with food, the food-addicted person is obsessed with food. The food-addicted person may express this obsession by thinking about food constantly, being influenced in their food choices by their food cravings and the person may find it difficult to stop the food related behaviour that is harmful to their ...

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  • Discover The Science Of Losing Weight For Optimal Health And Weight Loss
    By: Carmellita Brown | - Are you committed to losing weight and keeping it off? Have you tried diet and weight loss programs that robbed you of your energy as well as your desire to live in optimal health? Do you want to learn how to lose weight and maintain optimal health, regain strength, vitality, and your youthful vigor? There is a way and the way involves learning the science of losing weight. Losing weight is the result of a chemical reaction in the body which causes stored body fat to burn and be used for energy ...
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  • Can You Fight Bulimia And Other Food Addictions With Natural Medicine
    By: Irina Webster | - Bulimics and other food addicts eat compulsively. They can't stop their compulsive behavior once they have started their binge eating and tend to disregard the consequences of their behaviors.

    These people are persistently preoccupied with buying, preparing, cooking and eating food. They also can sneak or steal food, hide the food in their bags, cupboards, drawers and other places.

    When the food supply is cut off, withdrawal symptoms can occur, including chills, di ...

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  • Deconstructing Step Six Of Aa's Addiction Recovery Process
    By: Christine OKelly | - In step four of AA's addiction recovery process, the addict made a mental inventory of themselves. In step five, the addict reveals his or her own character defects to another person, taking accountability for them.

    Now in step 6 of AA's addiction recovery process, it's time for the addict to take action and allow God to remove those defects from their character.

    Some examples of common defects of character include:

    - Anger
    - Gluttony

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  • Build A Body You Can Be Proud Of By Eliminating An Addiction To Food And Your Health Problems
    By: Terry Schierer | - Addiction to food and your health is one of those topics that people are uncomfortable talking about and just assume that proper eating habits and exercise are the answer.

    It's serious enough that food addiction needs to be discuss and not hidden under the table. Friends and family of the food addict are affected by the problem.

    Essentially, the problem of food addiction is one that combines a food craving with a food allergy. When a person has this condition, the ...

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  • The Truth About Pet Food – Dogs & Cats
    By: Claris Rivers | - In recent times pet nutritionists have come to the conclusion that many of today’s health problems in animals, including physical and behavioral conditions have their roots in poor nutrition. Many of the leading manufacturers of so-called ‘quality’ pet food are responsible for this decline in your pet’s health. Veterinarians are noticing this deteriorating health in pets and believe that chemical additives and preservatives play a part.

    So, just what is in ...

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  • A New Approach To Addiction Recovery
    By: Jim Klein | - There are so many different types of addiction today and they seem to be increasing as time goes by.

    The most common addictions people think of when they hear the word addiction are those to alcohol and drugs. These two may be the most common and affect the largest number of people, however, many people struggle with other types of addiction.

    I will touch on the most common addictions in this article.

    At one point in time smoking was the cool or the i ...

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  • The Drug Pushers On Every High Street
    By: Stuart Hill | - They are in every supermarket and most local shops. I'm not talking about the obvious candidates, cigarettes and alcohol, but something much more insidious. It's part of what we accept as modern life. I'm talking about processed food. I'm talking about 'convenience' foods, snacks, candy, fizzy drinks and ice-cream. Apparently harmless substances such as sugar and artificial sweeteners. We are addicted to them and the processed food manufacturers feed our addiction.

    French scientis ...

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  • Food Addiction
    By: David Beart | - After spending 9 long hours at work, Janet is frazzled. After picking her kids up from day care and throwing something together for dinner, she's depressed and angry at the turn her life has taken. It seems as if every day has turned into one long series of work and errands, and once evening sets in so does her depression.

    Once the kids are finally off to bed she heads for the kitchen to relax and have a snack. Time slips by quickly, and she spends the next 2 hours eating junk ...

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  • Ancient Wisdom Critical In Recovery From Alcoholism And Drug Addiction
    By: Carl-Peter Lehmann | - Can the secret to successfully recovering from addictive illnesses like alcoholism and drug addiction involve ancient, timeless practices that have literally been sitting under our very noses all this time?

    It looks like it ...

    Recent scientific evidence suggest that age old practices like meditation can have the effect of reversing imbalances in the brain that actually cause things like addiction.

    I'm not going to go into the science of it here (for ...

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  • Pairing Generic Faith With Compulsive Overeating Can Bring About A Viable Approach To Food Addiction
    By: Luise Volta | - We read a lot about how to beat compulsive overeating, yet in those we know with this baffling condition, we see more of the "accordion effect" than any permanent resolution of obesity.

    It's become common knowledge that dieting doesn't work, has lasting ill effects and supports weight gain in the long run. Still, new diets and Diet Gurus surface on a regular basis. It's clear that the afflicted don't want to give up and probably shouldn't...so we have a huge industry around this c ...

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  • Don't Hesitate To Get Addiction Treatment
    By: Belina Storrey | - In our day and age, it seems like you do not have to look far or long to find people that are struggling with addictions of all kinds. Sometimes you have to look no further than to yourself to find a tough addiction. When we hear the word, addiction, we immediately think of alcohol or substance abuse don't we? But let me assure you, there is a far wider range of things to be addicted to, and getting addiction treatment can be great no matter what a person is addicted to.

    As a ther ...

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