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The increase is due to more cases of eating disorder not otherwise specified rather than rises in either bulimia or anorexia More people are being diagnosed with eating disorders every year and the most common type is not either of the two most well known—bulimia or anorexia—but eating disorders not otherwise specified (eating disorders that don't quite reach the threshold to be defined as anorexia or bulimia), shows a study published online in BMJ Open. Few studies have...
Psychology of eating coach Wendy Martens announces a new website which features personalized sustainable weight loss mentoring for clients with health concerns. Bethesda, MD (PRWEB) May 16, 2013 Wendy Martens, a psychology of eating coach, has unveiled a new website for her business New Pathway to Health, which is designed for men and women with weight concerns, body image challenges and those facing nutrition related health concerns. Specializing in clients over age 40, Martens also...
Bel Marra Health, who offers high-quality, specially formulated vitamins and nutritional supplements, reports on a new study that found that deep brain stimulation in mice successfully curbed binge eating behaviors and led to weight loss. This supplements another study currently testing the same therapy in humans. Toronto, ON (PRWEB) May 03, 2013 Bel Marra Health, who offers high-quality, specially formulated vitamins and nutritional supplements, reports on a new study that found that...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Using deep brain stimulation (DBS) in a specific area of the brain appears to reduce caloric intake and lead to weight loss in obese mice prone to binge eating, according to new research published in the Journal of Neuroscience, the official Journal of the Society of Neuroscience. Senior author Tracy L. Bale, an associate professor of neuroscience at the University Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine's Department of...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The word ‘addiction’ was once reserved for the hardest and most dangerous of substances, and typically elicited an image of a person in a helpless and deplorable state of existence. Psychologists have since been testing the boundaries of this definition, finding examples of Internet addiction, gambling addictions and addictions to pornography and sex. Some have even discovered that the same portion of the brain that’s affected...
How Body Image impacts the identities of girls and women: one-night-only theatrical dance performance, this Friday in NYC NEW YORK, April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- PURE Reflections: Beauty Reimagined, a theatrical dance performance about girls and women confronting and overcoming the obstacles to cultivating a healthy body image, on Friday April 12, 2013 at 7:30pm at A. Philip Randolf High School in NYC. Twenty million women suffer from a clinically significant eating disorder at...
Among those doing so, majority report "binge viewing" NEW YORK, April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Video on demand. DVR's. Streaming content. Entire seasons of television shows collected in DVD box sets. Americans' TV viewing habits were once at the mercy of network schedules, but now there are more ways than ever to watch shows on one's own schedule - and Americans are largely taking advantage of these options. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100517/NY06256LOGO )...
The New Program will Teach Participants How to Successfully Say Goodbye to their Sweet Tooth LOS ANGELES, March 28, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Heal Your Hunger, Inc., a service that helps people overcome binge eating, is launching a brand new program that will help teach people how to stop binge eating and beat their sugar addiction once and for all. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130328/CG85023) The 5-part teleseries is titled "Sweet Seduction: How to Say 'No' to...
Michelle Obama Shares That Health Is not About Size or Weight WASHINGTON, March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Eating disorder advocacy groups unite to applaud First Lady Michelle Obama for her comments on her "Let's Move!" Google+ fireside hangout March 5. During the chat, attended by more than 3,500 viewers and moderated by Live with Kelly & Michael talk show co-host Kelly Ripa, Mrs. Obama stressed that a lifestyle of overall wellness, not size or weight, dictates health in the long...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online Reaching for that so-called comfort food when you’re feeling bad about yourself might not be the best idea after all, according to new research presented Friday at the at the American Psychosomatic Society conference in Miami. As part of the study, experts from Penn State University studied the eating habits of 131 college-age women who had high levels of unhealthy eating habits and concerns about their body shape and...
