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Discusses the relationship between health and diet and examines a variety of commercial weight-loss programs and the health risks that they pose to their members.

Insight into Eating Disorders presents a detailed consideration of the causes and effects of different forms of eating disorders and offers hope to sufferers, their families and those working with them.Issues covered include:Understanding anorexia, bulimia and compulsive eatingDealing with painful emotionsExpressing anger and resolving conflictEstablishing core identityFacing reality and breaking freeUsing case studies and with a wealth of practical and biblical insights, this book offers a life...

You can take control over your eating difficulties - and you can start today. In this book, we'll get to the heart of why you restrict your eating, binge eat or purge. Whatever pulls you to these problems, whatever your mind is telling you, we'll give you the tools you need to beat them. With simple steps, and practical advice that really works, this book will help you take healthy control and sustain positive changes to overcome your eating problems. You can do this. Juliet Rosewall and...

Are you one of the millions of people suffering from Binge Eating Disorder? Are you caught in the trap of binge eating, emotional eating, mindless eating, and diet obsession? This book will help you to stop binge eating right now. You will heal the underlying issues that lead to your binge eating when you implement this complete mind, body and spirit approach to healing. It will help you to become the person who you know you are while gently guiding you away from the tyranny of food and body obs...

The lack of balance and the failure of regulation in life has traditionally been recognized in such extreme symbolic acts as overconscientiousness or a criminal lack of conscience. This volume shows how the neurotic process affects biologic functions, distorting natural functioning. Three distinct functions and their respective extremes are discussed: eating (obesity, bulimia nervosa), sleeping (insomnia, excessive somnolence), and sex (hypersexuality including child molestation, hyposexuality i...

Losing weight has become the modern woman's holy grail... everything will be better when we're thin. We're obsessed with weight, we dislike our bodies, we worry about the food we eat, we feel guilty, we diet... Too many of us are locked into a war with our own bodies which we'll never win, and which will never make us happy. The Ministry of Thin takes a controversial, unflinching look at how the modern obsession with weight loss, youth, beauty and perfection got out of control. Emma Woolf...

The resources here will guide you along a pathway of self-assessment, discovery, and fulfillment.Judi Hollis helps readers understand the compulsive nature of eating disorders and its dramatic effect on the entire family. The step-by-step format and personal examples help readers explore their role in this complex disorder.

Eating disorders, which include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and compulsive eating are conditions well recognized by the medical profession and the media, and are increasingly gaining understanding in the UK Church too. Yet while there have been Christian books written on people's experiences of "chaotic" eating, churches and individuals are crying out for a good resource book that will help them respond to the needs of those with eating disorders. Helena Wilkinson, herself an ex-anorexic,...

You are not what you don't eat. Never has there been a mental disorder so controversial in the theories surrounding its causes, treatments, and recovery than that of the eating disorder. Its mysterious nature, onset, and lack of predictability make this an elusive epidemic that causes frustration and fear in those who are afflicted and those who love and treat them. This is exactly why patients, families, and treatment professionals need to be privy to the observations of one of the foremost eat...

Emotional eating is the number-one cause of obesity in the Western world. In a society that fails to meet our human needs, millions of people medicate themselves with second-best solutions-drinking, drugs, shopping, and the Western drug of choice: eating. But Paul McKenna has cracked the code! "Just when I thought there was nothing more to learn about weight loss, I have discovered the most amazing breakthrough ever," says Dr. McKenna. "It's the fastest, safest, most powerful way ever to change...

This pamphlet outlines the psychological and biochemical causes of these life-threatening eating disorders and provides a comprehensive recovery programme addressing them.

My Life as a Male Anorexic is a uniquely male point of view of anorexia nervosa. It is the autobiographical account of a young man's ongoing struggle with anorexia. Michael shared his story as part of the featured health segment "Men Dying to be Thin" on WSVN Channel 7 News in Miami, Florida, in May 1997.Michael Krasnow has had anorexia since 1984, and he chronicles his daily struggles, feelings, and experiences in this book. He writes in a relaxed, easygoing manner that makes the book appealing...