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  • Quit Smoking With Your Body And Your Mind
    By: Lou Ryan | - Deciding that youre going to quit smoking is a little like deciding that youre going to climb Mount Everest. Rarely, if ever, does anyone plan to scale the peak in one day. Climbing a mountain takes preparation and an understanding that it is not a single step, but a series of movements, spaced out over a carefully planned journey, that will get you to the top. The same method applies to quitting smoking; you have to accept that it is a process with different stages that will be accomplish ...
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  • Restaurant Therapy
    By: Gloria Arenson | - If you are a compulsive overeater you may have mixed feelings about eating out in restaurants. Although you enjoy eating, perhaps you feel fearful about being tempted to consume certain foods you love that you believe are "bad" because they lead to binge eating. Your inner dialogue sounds like this: I love this food so much that I don't think I can eat just one portion. If I eat it I will continue to eat too much. If I do, I am bad so I might as well keep eating since I have already "blown it." ...
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  • Do You Know A Compulsive Eater?
    By: Paul Selibio | - You probably know someone who compulsively overeats ? maybe it?s a friend who thinks the portions at the local restaurant are just too small. Or maybe it?s a family member who always heads to the fridge for a snack shortly after the evening meal is finished.

    For people who compulsively overeat, the craving to eat, and the knowledge that they will feel ?better? once they are consuming food, is stronger than the knowledge that indulging their cravings is unhealthy and dangerous. Stud ...

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  • Compulsive Overeating
    By: Paul Selibio | - There?s nothing new about compulsive overeating ? it strikes men, women and children alike and is a major contributor to the growing issues of obesity and overall poor health. People with compulsive overeating disorders use the over-consumption of food to mask emotional pain and their bodies suffer the consequences. Serious health risks can result from the unhealthy compulsion to consume food despite lack of true hunger.

    One common result of compulsive overeating is obesity. A heal ...

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  • Compulsive Overeating
    By: Paul Selibio | - There?s nothing new about compulsive overeating ? it strikes men, women and children alike and is a major contributor to the growing issues of obesity and overall poor health. People with compulsive overeating disorders use the over-consumption of food to mask emotional pain and their bodies suffer the consequences. Serious health risks can result from the unhealthy compulsion to consume food despite lack of true hunger.

    One common result of compulsive overeating is obesity. A heal ...

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  • Think Yourself Thin ? Does It Really Work?
    By: Paul Selibio | - I?m sure you?ve heard the term, ?Think yourself thin.? And you have probably wondered what in the world that means. What it means is that there is a psychology to living a healthy lifestyle, and that often compulsive overeating, emotional overeating and obesity is the result of our emotional lives being out of balance with our actions. We think, therefore we eat. With half of the population of the US, UK and Australia overweight, what it seems that we are really doing is ?thinking ourselves fat. ...
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  • Think Yourself Thin ? Does It Really Work?
    By: Paul Selibio | - I?m sure you?ve heard the term, ?Think yourself thin.? And you have probably wondered what in the world that means. What it means is that there is a psychology to living a healthy lifestyle, and that often compulsive overeating, emotional overeating and obesity is the result of our emotional lives being out of balance with our actions. We think, therefore we eat. With half of the population of the US, UK and Australia overweight, what it seems that we are really doing is ?thinking ourselves fat. ...
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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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  • Binge Eating Disorder Treatment
    By: alleysmith | - Binge Eating Disorder is a disorder in which people use food to satisfy a variety of emotions in order to cope with them. People may binge when they experience any negative emotion, such as anger, sadness, or depression. Another reason a person may binge is shear boredom.

    Binge eating is usually kept a secret. A food addict will usually overeat in private to avoid others finding out about their disorderly eating habits.

    Binge eating disorder is probably the most common ...

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  • Weight Loss - You Should Avoid Overeating
    By: Kinny Chuin | - You will certainly want to lose a few pounds. To this end, exercising plan and diet plans are very important. However, one of the obstacle here is that we will tend to eat more than we need. And this make us difficult to stick to the dieting plan. In this case, you will need to learn the ways to avoid overeating.

    In order to avoid overeating, it is a must for you to have breakfast. A lot of people who have the habit of binge eating do not have breakfast. Besides, you can kick star ...

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  • This May Be The Answer To Your Obesity Problem
    By: Anthony Churchill | - You are overweight because you overeat! That is, you eat too much for your particular body.

    But the question is: why do you overeat? When you've found this out, you will have solved your problem of obesity.

    Many people believe that they have no willpower. They say, "I just seem to feel hungry all the time," or "If I just had enough willpower, I could lose weight." Often they believe they are powerless to break the habit.

    Most of the time, overeating i ...

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  • Coaching Is Key To Losing Weight And Keeping It Off
    By: Lori Hanson | - Do you struggle with your weight? Have your tried every diet and exercise program in the book only to wind up 20 pounds heavier than before you started? Many individuals fall back into old habits and regain weight because they dont have a strong enough support system, someone to help them through the difficult days. Someone to keep them inspired, focused in the right direction and on course.

    One of the best things you can do jump start your path to reaching your goal is to ...

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  • The Need For Self Help Programs
    By: Lou Ryan | - Self help programs are the hot stuff in this modern world. So what does self help exactly mean? As the phrase indicates, depending on thyself to improve the lifestyle and habits is the main motive of self help. You will be well aware of the fact that there are thousands of self help programs available today. Most of these self help programs have already gained huge popularity worldwide. If self help is a mentality to improve lifestyle with own help, what is the need of the self help programs? Ju ...
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  • Tips To Help Prevent Overeating
    By: Joni Bell | - Our eyes are bigger than our stomach is a saying we are all familiar with and we understand the meaning. Most of us have fallen victim at least once in our life of stuffing ourself to the point where we end relating to the old commercial, "I can't believe I ate the whole thing". Why do we do this to ourselves sometimes? Why do some snack foods leave us unsatisfied which leads us to go to the cupboard and get a different snack, hoping this one will do it. I realize there are eating disorders, and ...
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  • The Best Tips To Follow In Order To Stop Overeating
    By: Dane Fletcher | - Several individuals take in large amount of food because they have lost touch with their bodies. Slimming is not a difficult task especially when one reconnects with his or her mind and the body as well. Overeating is an easy task and when one decides not to do it he or she can count him or herself the lucky one. According to health researchers, extra calories a day contributes to weight gain very quickly therefore it is best to shave the excess calories in order to lose weight. This can be done ...
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  • Self-help Tips To Stop Overeating
    By: Roberto Sedycias | - Overeating can be a root cause for many serious health problems such as obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure etc. People who overeat do not do so intentionally but their addiction to food makes them do so. If you are not able to control your temptation when you see some food, even if you are not hungry, it may lead to overeating.

    Many people overeat occasionally which may cause indigestion, bowel disturbance and stomach distension. When you happen to overeat regularly you become ...

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  • Self-help Tips To Stop Overeating
    By: Joana Furtado | - Overeating can be a root cause for many serious health problems such as obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure etc. People who overeat do not do so intentionally but their addiction to food makes them do so. If you are not able to control your temptation when you see some food, even if you are not hungry, it may lead to overeating.

    Many people overeat occasionally which may cause indigestion, bowel disturbance and stomach distension. When you happen to overeat regularly you become a ...

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  • Simple Strategies To Outsmart Overeating
    By: Sherry Granader | - Food is everywhere. Of course, we need it to nourish our bodies and it does help us celebrate life, however, we sometimes overeat when we are stressed, depressed, angry, lonely or anxious. We need to be aware of these triggers in our lives and do what we can to undo the habit of reaching for food every time we have an emotion.

    Think about the last time you overate. Was it when you went out to dinner starving and ordered everything on the menu? Are you in the habit of orderin ...

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  • 5 Excuses Emotional Eaters Make
    By: Daniel Adams | - There are many excuses emotional eaters give for hanging on to their habit of overeating, even when it affects their mental and physical well-being. Below are 5 excuses that we often hear at Shrink Yourself.
    I'll never be as attractive as I want, so why bother losing weight at all?
    So many emotional eaters paint themselves into a corner with this one. It's defeatist thinking at its very best. It convinces you that since you won't be Tyra Banks or George Clooney after you lose the w ...

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  • Simple Things You Can Do On Your Path To Stop Smoking Cigarettes
    By: Aydan Corkern | - For most people it only takes a few days to get the nicotine from smoking cigarettes out of your system when you stop. This can be the easiest step of the quitting smoking process. The really hard thing to do is finding something else to do with your hands, mouth, and to keep you from thinking about smoking a cigarette constantly. You have become so accustomed to associating so many things with a cigarette, that it comes to your mind many times a day and can leave you with an agitated, unfulfill ...
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  • How To Go About Quitting Smoking
    By: Aydan Corkern | - There are many ways that people like you do to try to quit smoking. Some achieve their goal while many of you do not. As you all know, it is not easy to break this habit. Many people are able to simply stop cold turkey and never smoke cigarettes again, but many others are not successful trying to quit this way. Most of you have probably tried several of the other methods with little or no luck. The key to quitting smoking and being successful with it is that you really have to want to stop.

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  • Trying To Quit Smoking Naturally
    By: Aydan Corkern | - If you decide that you want to quit smoking and you think you have tried all of the products that happen to be on the market, you might want to go the natural way. Doing so this way is a cleaner and a simpler solution. As most of you have probably tried to quit several times, you find that a lot of you will end up back in the habit of smoking cigarettes. The hardest way to quit is cold-turkey, but this is a way that works for some. Those that are able to quit this way and last a year, can many t ...
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  • Tollie's Teen Weight Loss And Diet Empowerment Outsmart Your Stomach
    By: Tollie Schmidt | - Recently, Cornell University researchers asked a group of people a simple question: "How do you know when you're through eating dinner?"

    The answer might seem obvious. After all, doesn't every teenager push the plate away when they feel full? Well, no. The leanest teens do, according to the scientists, but teens that are overweight rely more on what are known as "external cues." For example, guys packing a few extra pounds tend to stop eating when, their plates are clean, everyone ...

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  • Conquering Compulsive Overeating With Raw Foods
    By: James Beller | - Compulsive overeating, or what some call gluttony, is generally characterized by the following:
    -Eating a considerable quantity of food,
    -Eating too quickly,
    -Feeling of a lack of control over the eating process,
    -Felling hunger whether or not one has just eaten,
    -Always trying to eat alone or otherwise hiding how much one has eaten,
    -Continuing to eat even when already feeling very full,
    -Feeling guilty after any of the above,
    -In ...

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  • Dog Bowl: The Solution For Overeating Dog Breeds
    By: Ben Anton | - Hope for the opposite as we may, humans dont enter this world on an even playing field. Even excluding complex socioeconomic issues, inequality lurks in our medical charts: some of us are genetically predisposed for medical issues such as heart disease and certain cancers. A study from Harvards School of Public health suggests that our genes even make some of us more likely to be obese*.

    The genetic injustice doesnt stop with homo sapiens. Our canine co ...

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  • Being Proactive About The Holidays
    By: Pat Barone | - We've officially entered the holiday season. Studies show Americans gain an average of 10 pounds from October 31 to January 5.

    Even if you don't celebrate the actual holidays by overeating, the last two months of the year represent a more stressful period of time. There are many job-related deadlines coinciding with the end of the year. Parties and social opportunities proliferate, including work-related events, holiday celebrations, and family gatherings. This is also a tim ...

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  • How To Understand The Denial Key To Unlock Destructive Behaviors
    By: Kathleen Fuller, Ph.D. | - We all use denial to keep experiences, facts, feelings, or beliefs which would most likely overwhelm or disrupt us out of our everyday consciousness. Because the mind functions like a machine, experiences, facts, feelings, or beliefs that are unacceptable to it are routinely denied and pushed away to be stored in the subconscious. If you would like to be free of emotional painful behaviors, then ask yourself this key question. How can you choose to be more aware? The answer is in the followin ...
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  • The Eight Signs Of Emotional Eating
    By: Mike Smith | - A lot of people ask, "How do I know if I am overeating for emotional reasons?"

    Luckily, figuring this out is one of the easiest things to do. There are very specific symptoms and signs that you can look for. If any of the following statements sound like they could apply to you, then it's likely you are struggling with emotional eating.

    1. My hunger comes on suddenly.
    Physical hunger comes on slowly. Hunger from emotional eating often comes on quickly and sudd ...

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  • Doggy Health: 4 Ways To Reduce Your Dog's Weight
    By: Ben Anton | - There are a number of different factors that can cause a dog to become overweight. Overindulgence on the part of the owner plays a large part in pet obesity. We all want our pets to be happy, and sometimes an extra handful of kibble does the trick. Certain breeds of dogs are also more likely to eat quickly and/or become overweight. Additionally, basic poor eating habits and a lack of exercise will result in an overweight dog.

    Why Worry About Dog Obesity?
    Like humans, ex ...

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  • Controlling Your Taste To Lose Weight
    By: Gary Grewal | - Mentioned below are some of the tips that will help your stomach feel full for a longer duration and avoid curb cravings. It is worth giving the following tips a try as they will eventually help you in reducing weight.

    Never prevent yourself from eating in the morning just because you want to have it all in the evening. Regardless of how much ever "be in command of" position you believe you are in the day, you're prone to be excessively hungry by late afternoon. This will ultimate ...

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  • Find Out Now! Does Your Life Really Consist Of Healthy Eating? Here"€™s A Health Quiz For Eating.
    By: Kathleen Fuller, Ph.D. | - Heres The Toughest Questions Those with Eating Issues Can Ask Themselves
    Take Inventory of Dangerous Cultural Attitudes


    Learn about the many twists and turns that convolute the path and the process when healing eating issues and weight issues. Each persons journey is unique, just as each body shape is different, but certain behavioral similarities are fundamental at the start for nearly everyone who is affected.

    Consider that, at any given tim ...

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  • Binging And The Delusion Of Fear - How Our Brains Work
    By: Robert Dave Johnston | - The mind has the power to assist us in creating great victories, but it also can become an instrument of destruction that keeps us enslaved in our inner hell.

    Especially when it comes to food and eating, living life trapped by the merciless power of binging and compulsive overeating can often be worse than death itself. This emotional trap is taking casualties by the millions as the obesity plague continues to blanket much of the civilized world.

    As was the case w ...

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  • Causes Of Over Eating--emotional
    By: Richard Kuhns | - Causes of emotional overeating are always traced back to childhood--maybe even to our genetic map. Just as with baby turtles, fish, snakes... they instinctively know what to do and where to go to survive.

    Whatever the souce of the progromming, humans instinctively have the drive to survive and humans can take it one step further, they also have the drive for pleasure seeking. And just as all animals, humans are instinctively curious. Put all this together and it's natural that fo ...

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  • Break For Lunch
    By: Rachel Lukasavige | - I will be the first to admit that I am guilty of the bad habit of eating lunch at my desk. I bring my lunch to work everyday and it is easier to sit at my desk and get a little bit of work done than it is to trek down to the cafeteria. Eating lunch (or any meal, for that matter) at your desk is not a healthy habit.

    According to the American Dietetic Association and the ConAgra Foods Foundation, some 70% of Americans eat lunch at their desks several times a week. One of the bi ...

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  • Around The Holidays, Be Real With Your Goals
    By: Leeann Simons | - Last week I had two clients come in, at different times, to discuss their diets, their weight, and how to handle the holidays. Neither of them had lost any weight, but, (and more importantly as we go through all these holidays) neither of them had gained weight.

    What struck me was that their attitudes were totally different, and I could see it in the way they behaved in my office. Let me first tell you that in my practice, I like to talk for a while with my clients before I weig ...

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  • Party In Peace
    By: Leeann Simons | - As the holidays rush upon us, I am hearing from clients their fears about what to do at parties. They fear eating too much, losing control, getting too fat. They are afraid of becoming a manic eating machine-one that starts to eat, and cannot stop.

    One of the reasons I work so hard with clients on their relationships with food is because when you are at peace with food, you realize you cannot lose control. Of course, as with all relationships, you have your ups and downs, and ho ...

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  • Scales Of Justice
    By: Leeann Simons | - There was a time when I used to weigh myself 2, maybe 3 times/day. For some strange reason, I believed I could gain or lose a lot of weight at different times, during the SAME day. Then I cut back to once/day. Finally, I stopped weighing myself, except on certain occasions, of which I can't think of any right now. But I certainly remember when I got on the scales and weighed myself once/day- if I had gained weight, I would be depressed, and I decided to eat. If I had lost weight, I would be h ...
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  • How Can Coaching Help You Lose Weight?
    By: Kimbles | - The issues surrounding weight self-image and health are climbing to alarming proportions around the globe. It is a sign of the times and what most individuals and societies do not understand is that the issues are merely a symptom of what is really wrong.

    In an effort to search for solutions individuals start trying different diets and so the yo-yo trend of dieting begins. These are not only expensive, soul-destroying and temporary solutions, but they are dangerous for our health ...

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  • Dogs And Obesity: Running With The Big Dogs
    By: Carol Osborne | - Is Your Dog Struggling with Obesity? Over half of our dogs are clinically obese, which by definition means they are 15 percent or more above their ideal weight. Being 10 percent overweight decreases a dog's life span by one third and predisposes them to heart, liver, and kidney disease as well as arthritis.

    More females are affected than males. Hormones, genetics and individual variations in metabolism and appetite are predisposing factors. But, the most common cause of obesi ...

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  • Can The News Media Ever Be Responsible To Society?
    By: Richard Kuhns | - Managing stress of society. Can the news media ever be responsible to society?

    Reporting the news is the function of the news media. And that can be done responsibly or it can be done irresponsibly to society. In fact, every news program ought to have a responsibility rating--say between zero to ten. If the manner in which the news is being presented is totally responsible to society it receives a rating of ten. If it unnecessarily ads stress to society and it totally irresponsib ...

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  • When You Recognize What Causes You To Overeat, You Can Lose Weight
    By: Shafir Ahmad | - Recognize What Causes You To Overeat
    Fundamentally, obesity is caused by overeating. For some people it becomes a problem when they do not know  how to control what foods they eat, how often they eat and how much they eat. You could be misled into  thinking that you can remedy this by exercising hard and furiously.  Alas, what you burn in calories in one  hour through exercise can be quickly eliminated in one minute of overeating.  Let's face it, obesity can  ...

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  • Tame Your Appetite
    By: Marcus Martinez | - Our bodies evolved when food was not plentiful, so we are programmed to eat as much as we can whenever we can and to conserve every calorie, storing away an excess as fat. We cannot change our genes, but we can learn what triggers the insidious pattern of oversupply and overeating.

    1. Giving In To Temptation

    Willpower alone is rately enough to resist the basic biological urge to eat.

    The solutions:
    Stock up on low carb foods that you can eat ...

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  • Emotional Eating And Weight Loss: What Do You Really Need?
    By: Carol Solomon | - You can lose weight just by eating when you are hungry and stopping when the hunger signals go away.

    If we all ate ONLY when we were hungry, then no one would have any issue with food and weight.

    For most people, it's not that simple.

    How often are you letting hunger be the guide to your eating?

    And how many of your urges to eat are driven by physiological hunger?

    When we reach for food, it often has nothing to do with ph ...

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  • Weight Loss Success: Managing The Breaking Point
    By: Carol Solomon | - If you have difficulty getting through the afternoon and evening without overeating, you are not alone. The key to managing stress is managing your energy level.

    The hardest time of the day for most people is in the middle to late afternoon. Around 3:00 or 4:00 P.M. we enter the time of day that Japanese researchers have called the "breaking point."

    By studying brain-wave readings throughout the day, they found 2 distinct kinds of rhythms. The breaking point occurs ...

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  • Five Good Habits For A Healthy Life
    By: Carol Stack | - Experiencing a healthy and long life requires several things, including a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, adequate sleep each night, exercise, plenty of water, and eliminating any bad habits that can cause disease, such as smoking and overeating.

    Foods

    The truth is that many foods that are very rich in vitamins that your body needs everyday are available for your consumption on the go. And with some minor changes, even your fast foods can be healthy choices when ...

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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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  • Eating Disorders Explained
    By: Stefan Rockhaus | - Unhealthy eating patterns lead to an eating disorder. This is very common among teenage girls who are obsessed about becoming thin, and start harming their body by not eating. Poor nutrition harms their body organs. This is a very serious problem as it affects them mentally as well, and leads to depression and anxiety. An eating disorder can be overeating as well.

    When a person finds refuge in food to cover their mental disturbance, then they are suffering from an eating disorder ...

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