Overeating

What's Behind Emotional Overeating?

Lisa Firestone | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Nutrition, Addiction, Weight Loss, Self-Esteem, Obesity, Diet, Overeating, Lisa Firestone, Emotional Wellness, Stop Emotional Eating, Emotional Health, Emotional Eating, Emotional Binge Eating, Healthy Living News

By taking action on a physical level and taking interest on an emotional level, we can re-establish our relationship with food, with our bodies, with our past, and with ourselves as a whole.

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The Gluttony Project: Semper Fry

El Guapo | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: The Gluttony Project, Cdc Obesity Projections, American Obesity, All You Can Eat Buffet, Gluttony, Obesity, Overeating, Comedy News

On the fifth trip up to the buffet, you fight gnawing fatigue like a champ. Your jaw aches. You've unbuttoned your pants with the same single-minded determination of Rocky Balboa asking Mick to cut his swollen eye.

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Let Us Eat Cake: The Paradox of Scarcity

Wray Herbert | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Scarcity Heuristic, Calorie Heuristic, Obesity, Overeating Scarcity, Overeating, Obesity Epidemic, Science News

Two University of Miami marketing experts, Juliano Laran and Anthony Salerno, are now offering a new and provocative idea about why Americans make poor food choices, along with some preliminary evidence to back it up.

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WATCH: Montel Williams Reveals Secret Struggle On Dr. Oz Show

Posted 05.10.2012

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Although he's been a regular on Dr. Mehmet Oz's talk show, television personality and healthy living champion Montel Williams revealed a secret about ...

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How To Lose Weight Without Dieting or Pills

Morty Lefkoe | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: The Lefkoe Method, Diets, How to Lose Weight Without Dieting and Pills, Morty Lefkoe, Emotional Eating, Eating, Diet Pills, Obesity, How to Lose Weight, Overeating, Mindful Eating, Mindfulness, Weight Loss, Diet and Nutrition, Healthy Living News

Between our obsession with our looks and the national crisis involving obesity, losing weight is constantly on the minds of tens of millions of people.

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Compulsive Eating At Work: How To Stop Eating At Your Desk

Margaret Wheeler Johnson | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Eating at Desk, Disordered Eating, Women and Food, Eating at Work, Overeating, Compulsive Eating, Geneen Roth, Eating at Your Desk, Slidepollajax, Women News

Just because we live in an insane culture doesn't mean we have to be insane, too. Be the one who doesn't do it and see what happens. Someone has to be the one who says, 'I'm not going to do it this way. I deserve more.'"

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Why Do We Eat Too Much?

Carole Carson | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Mindful Eating, Weight Loss, Dr. Edward Abramson, Obesity, Emotional Eating, Health, End of Overeating, Stop Overeating, Diet and Nutrition, Compulsive Overeating, Over Eating, Overeating, Healthy Living News

Our love of eating is shared around the globe. Worldwide obesity has doubled in the last 30 years, and is triggering alarming increases in heart disease and Type 2 diabetes.

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How to Tell If You're a Food Addict and What You Can Do About It

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Addiction, Food Addiction, Change, Weight Loss, Overeating, Behavior, Health, Diet and Nutrition, Healthy Living News

What do we mean when we say we're a "foodaholic"? It's confusing because, of course, we're all addicted to food since we need to eat to live. Essentially, we are all food addicts.

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Overeating Flare-Ups: Are They the Cause of Chronic Obesity?

Judith J. Wurtman, PhD | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Neuroscience, Managing Overeating, Maintaining Weight Loss, Weight Gain, Healthy Approaches to Eating, Diet, Regained Weight, Serotonin, Weight Loss, Overeating, Healthy Living News

Ultimately, dieters who are plagued by chronic overeating flare-ups may be able to diminish their severity because they learn from past experience how to handle the situations that are causing them to stop following a calorie-conscious food plan.

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Are Pediatricians Hurting Your Toddler's Eating Habits?

Dina R. Rose | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Healthy Eating, Toddlers-Eating-Habits, Parenting Tips, Obesity-in-Toddlers, Toddlers, Raising Children, Parenting, Overeating, Children's Health, Parenting Advice, Childhood Obesity, Parents News

Parents wouldn't have to resort to the "two more bites" tactic if they thought their toddlers were eating well. Ironically, it's the emphasis on nutrition that produces the problem.

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Overdo It Yesterday? 7 Health And Beauty Tips To Get Back On Track

The Huffington Post | Catherine Pearson | Posted 11.25.2011

Read More: Thanksgiving Holidays, Food Skin, Diet and Nutrition, Fitness and Exercise, Thanksgiving Detox, Overeating, Beauty and Skin, Healthy Living News

It's all over -- we gave our thanks, watched the parades, rooted for football teams and ate. And (for some more than others) ate and ate and ate. I...

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How To Avoid Binge Eating On Thanksgiving

Will Aguila, M.D. | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Eating Disorders, Food, Weight Loss, Dieting, Overeating, Binge Eating, Thanksgiving, Holidays, Holiday Food, Turkey, Thanksgiving Binge Eating, Diet and Nutrition, Healthy Living News

We like to show our love to others with our food, but we can show this love more powerfully with words of compassion and kindness. Remember, it's really not about the food!

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Why Food Becomes Addictive

Will Aguila, M.D. | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Food Addiction, Obesity, Nutrition, Healthy Living Body, Emotional Eating, Weight Gain, Diet and Nutrition, Compulsive Eating, Overeating, Addiction & Recovery, Healthy Living News

The thing about food addiction is that, unlike drugs, alcohol or smoking, food addiction is not yet frowned upon by society... What an ideal substance to abuse, right?

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When Teens Turn To Food Out Of Boredom

Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: How to Stop Eating When Bored, Eating When Bored, Parent Coach, Kids Obesity, Overweight Children, Kids Who Overeat, Overeating, Eating Out of Boredom, Parents-Advice-Mama, Video, Parents News

Dear Susan, My nine-year old son is constantly snacking. He says it's because he's bored. The only activity he will do is play video games. He has...

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How to Talk to Your Child About Obesity

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Childhood Obesity, Obesity, Overeating, Breaking Bad Habits, Parenting Tips, Parenting Advice, Child Obesity, Obese Children, Parents-Childrens-Healthy-Lifestyle, Healthy-Kids, Parents News

You have to care enough about your child giving up their overeating for you to give up a self-defeating or even self-destructive habit you have.

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The Bad Habits That Sabotage Divorcees

Vicki Larson | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Divorce, Depression, Smoking, Overeating, Promiscuity, Bad Habits, Alcohol, Addiction, Booze, Divorce News

Right or wrong, many divorced people tend to blame their ex for all that's gone wrong, and focus on how their ex has hurt them. Sometimes, however, th...

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Why Politicians Get Fat

P.G. Sittenfeld | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Food, Diet, Overeating, Politics News

Two Saturdays ago, I devoured five hot dogs at three different festivals during the day. It turns out burgers and hotdogs are as common as handshakes on the campaign trail.

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New Strategies To Curb Emotional Eating

Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D. | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Depression, Nutrition, Emotional Eating, Willpower, Diet, Obesity, Self-Control, Anxiety, Overeating, Happiness, Healthy Living News

Americans are stressed out, and seeking treatment for anxiety and depression in record numbers. Experiencing all of those bad feelings each day leads us to consume more and more high-calorie junk food.

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Understanding Emotional Eating

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Understanding Binge Eating, Eating Emotionally, Emotional Eating, Comfort Food, Understanding Overeating, Understanding Emotional Eating, Overeating, Binge Eating, Healthy Living News

Eating for pleasure or eating to reduce daily stresses are two sides of the same coin but our all-or-nothing minds divide this indivisible coin in half.

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Weight And Emotional Problems Are Not Inherited

Morty Lefkoe | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Overeating Inherited, Overeating Genetic, Overeating Is Not Genetic, Depression Genetic, Overeating Is Not Inherited, Overeating, Wellness, Depression Inherited, Healthy Living News

Our genes and DNA only contribute a "potential" that must be activated by our interactions with reality and by our beliefs. If the outside environment (the source of our belief and conditionings) does not activate a gene, it has no impact at all.

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Why Is My Teenage Son Overeating? From Dr. Drew

Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Dr. Drew, Marlo Thomas, Depression, Video, Diet, Overeating, Teenagers, Women News

Sex and addiction expert Dr. Drew respond to a concerned mother's question about her teenage son's unhealthy eating habits. if(typeof AOLVP_cfg===...

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Why Do You Keep Eating After You're Full?

Morty Lefkoe | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: De-Conditioning, Conditioning, Negative Feelings, Overeating, Emotional Eating, Mental Health, Triggers Overeating, Emotional Eating Stress, Weight Loss, Overeating Triggers, Emotional Eating Overeating, Triggers Emotional Eating, Emotional Eating Triggers, Healthy Living News

Emotional eaters don't want to face unpleasantness in their lives. They don't want to feel any negative feelings. So they eat to get a pleasurable distraction from the feelings, to numb themselves.

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Understanding Your Emotional Calendar and the Seasons

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.17.2011

With the build up to Christmas over, all that remains are the days until the New Year makes its entrance. This time can be equally stressful, but It doesn't have to be that way, says Harvard Medical School's Dr. John R. Sharp.

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Avoid Stress Eating This Holiday Season

Judith J. Wurtman, PhD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Overeating Disorders, Overeating Treatment, Overeating Symptoms, Overeating, Overeating Because of Stress, Causes of Overeating, Home News

A particular chemical in the brain, serotonin, seems to become less active late in the afternoon resulting in a deteriorating mood and a nagging need to eat.

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The Energy of Food: A Missing Piece in the Overeating Puzzle (VIDEO)

Judith Orloff MD | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Weight Loss Advice, Obesity Theory, Diet Tips, Overeating Advice, Health, Diet Advice, Weight Loss Tips, Overeating, Overeating Tips, Video, Healthy Living News

When the impulse to overeat hits, try these strategies from my book to cope with the energy of stress without abusing food.

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