What's Behind Emotional Overeating?
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.
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.
El Guapo | Posted 05.14.2012
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.
Wray Herbert | Posted 05.04.2012
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.
Posted 05.10.2012
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 ...
Morty Lefkoe | Posted 04.18.2012
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.
Margaret Wheeler Johnson | Posted 04.20.2012
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.'"
Carole Carson | Posted 05.12.2012
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.
Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 04.03.2012
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.
Judith J. Wurtman, PhD | Posted 01.17.2012
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.
Dina R. Rose | Posted 01.31.2012
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.
The Huffington Post | Catherine Pearson | Posted 11.25.2011
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...
Will Aguila, M.D. | Posted 01.23.2012
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!
Will Aguila, M.D. | Posted 12.28.2011
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?
Posted 12.19.2011
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...
Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 11.26.2011
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.
Vicki Larson | Posted 10.26.2011
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...
P.G. Sittenfeld | Posted 09.05.2011
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.
Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D. | Posted 09.04.2011
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.
Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
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.
Morty Lefkoe | Posted 11.17.2011
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.
Posted 09.14.2011
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===...
Morty Lefkoe | Posted 11.17.2011
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.
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.
Judith J. Wurtman, PhD | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Judith Orloff MD | Posted 11.17.2011
When the impulse to overeat hits, try these strategies from my book to cope with the energy of stress without abusing food.
Lisa Firestone | Posted 05.20.2012