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Men Who Eat This Have 29 Percent Higher Rate of Colorectal Cancer

WHY NOT BE HEALTHY – Oct. 10, 2022 - Medical Journal, men who frequently eat ultra-processed foods are at a 29 percent increased risk of developing colorectal cancer, compared with men who eat this type ... Read More...

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Deep Brain Stimulation New Treatment for Binge Eating Disorder

NO MORE EATING YOUR BRAINS OUT – AUG. 31, 2022 - Expanding on work conducted on mice, the team discovered that the cravings just before an episode of binge eating set off a specific low-frequency electrical pat... Read More...

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Diet Can Influence Mood, Behavior and More

VIDEO – THINK BRAIN FOOD – Aug 24, 2022 - As with vitamin C, deficits in other vitamins and minerals can also precipitate nutritional diseases that adversely impact the brain in humans. For example, low dietary... Read More...

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Addicted to Food? Is It Your Parent’s Fault?

IT’S NOT YOUR PET’S – Aug. 11, 2022 - “People who have a family history of addiction may be at greater risk for developing a problematic relationship with highly processed foods, which is really challenging in ... Read More...

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Highly Processed Food Linked to Fast Cognitive Decline

STILL SAY GRACE – Aug. 1, 2022 - “Independent of the amount of calories, independent of the amount of healthy food that you try to eat, the ultra-processed food is not good for your cognition,” said Clau... Read More...

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Model Exposes the Dangerous Side of the Fashion Industry

SHE’S WORTH THE WEIGHT – July 29, 2022 - I felt like I was constantly being body-shamed by people in the fashion industry. I remember getting measured for a job and being told that even my fingers were t... Read More...

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Family Alcohol History May Put You at Risk of Junk Food Addiction

TOO MANY TWINKIES? – July 17, 2022 - “People who have a family history of addiction may be at greater risk for developing a problematic relationship with highly processed foods, which is really challenging in a... Read More...

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Your Eating Disorder Is Not Your Fault

IT’S PHYSICAL – June 2, 2022 - Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and avoidant or restrictive food intake disorder are life-threatening psychiatric disorders that are generally difficult ... Read More...

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This Diet Can Help Lessen Depression Symptoms

YOU THINK LIKE YOU EAT – May 18, 2022 - Australian researchers at the University of Technology Sydney performed a randomized control trial for 12 weeks to assess how the Mediterranean diet would impact depressi... Read More...

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Diet Sweeteners Damage the Intestines

GOD BLESS SUGAR – May 12, 2022 - Artificial sweeteners such as saccharin, sucralose, and aspartame can interact with healthy bacteria in the gut. This can lead to increased adhesion of intestinal bacteria. Adh... Read More...

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Brain Differences Seen in Children with Binge Eating Disorder

IT STARTS AT BIRTH – March 15, 2022 - “This study suggests to me that binge eating disorder is wired in the brain, even from a very, very early age,” Murray said. “The question that we don’t know, which is some... Read More...

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Am I Addicted to Caffeine?

BEAN THERE DOPPIO THAT – Jan. 7, 2022 - Instead of going from six caffeinated cups of tea, coffee or cans of energy drinks per day, start with five, then four and so on. Until you reach a level at which you fe... Read More...

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Fresca to Join Crowd of Canned Cocktails

WHAT’S NEXT? MOUNTAIN BOOZE? – Jan. 6, 2022 - Ready-to-drink spirits represented $741 million in U.S. retail-store sales in 2021 through Dec. 25, more than double the sales over the same period a year earlier,... Read More...

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‘The Corpse Bride Diet’: How TikTok Inundates Teens With Eating-Disorder Videos

LITERALLY DYING TO BE THIN – Dec. 17, 2021 - “The more I interacted with those types of videos, the more they started to show up,” said Andie, 14, of the app, which has one billion users, many of them kids lik... Read More...

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Are Foods High in Fat & Sugar as Addictive as Cigarettes?

MAYBE EVEN MORE... – Nov. 26, 2021- Ultra-processed foods are highly reinforcing – they can shape your behavior to keep you coming back for more. For example, teachers and parents use ultra-processed foods to ... Read More...

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Some Foods Are Like Cigarettes – Addictive and Deadly

IS THIS A LASTING TREASURE, OR JUST A MOMENTS PLEASURE? – Nov. 19, 2021 - Based on our current estimates, 15% of Americans meet the threshold for food addiction, which is associated with diet-related disease, ... Read More...

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Foods Ranked Healthiest to Deadliest

IT’LL KILL YOU EVENTUALLY – Oct. 16, 2021 - Mozaffarian and colleagues created what they call the Food Compass by applying the latest science on nutrition to examine both the healthy and harmful aspects of mor... Read More...

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I’m A Fat Woman. This Is Why I Post Photos Of Myself Eating.

ONE SIZE DOESN'T HAVE TO FIT ALL – Oct. 13, 2021 - Fast-forward to the age of 11. I’m in a bathroom stall with my lunch tray, hovering my knees above the toilet to perfectly balance my meal of 2% milk, carrots and ... Read More...

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Reaching for Zero

NOTHING FROM NOTHING LEAVES NOTHING – October 10, 2021 - Eating disorders are often marked as having an abnormal relationship with food. And while this may be true for some, I never found food to be the proble... Read More...

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Is Food Addiction Contributing to Global Obesity?

HIGHLY PROCESSED WORLD – Oct. 2, 2021 - Our brains are designed to find high-calorie foods rewarding to ensure we survive the periods of famine. Carbohydrates (like sugar) and fat are high in calories and trig... Read More...

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Popular Drinks With More Sugar Than Soda

WATCH – WHY AMERICA IS SO SICK – August 18, 2021 - Snapple Apple We have the same concerns for Snapple Apple that we do for Minute Maid lemonade. Of the 47 grams of total sugar, 42 of them are added—that’s a l... Read More...

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How Diet Affects Mental Health

YOU FEEL WHAT YOU EAT – Sept. 9, 2021 - The old saying goes “you are what you eat,” but a recent study finds it may be more accurate to say your mood is what you eat. Researchers from Binghamton Universi... Read More...

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Megan Fox’s “Pretty Severe Eating Disorder”

VULNERABILITY IS BEAUTIFUL – Sept 9, 2021 - “However, at a certain point, I went through some trauma in childhood and I developed a pretty severe eating disorder and manic depression, which runs in my fa... Read More...

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Busting Eating Disorder Stereotypes

WATCH – SIZE DOESN’T MATTER – Sept. 8, 2021 - When plus-sized supermodel Tess Holliday opened up this spring about her struggle with anorexia, she also spoke about the backlash she received, saying, “I u... Read More...

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Instagram ‘pushes weight-loss messages to teenagers’

THERE ARE ALL KINDS OF “PUSHERS” – July 20, 2021 - Algorithms are pushing teenage girls who even briefly engage with fitness-related images towards a flood of weight-loss content, according to new research whic... Read More...

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Processed foods making you sick?

IF IT’S IN A PACKAGE, IT’S PROCESSED – May 7, 2021 - Scientists already knew prior to this study that the Western diet of heavily processed foods was linked to health issues. “Broad changes in societal dieta... Read More...

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This Is Your Brain on Junk Food

HAPPY AS HELL – March 25, 2021 - “I had tried to avoid the word addiction when I was writing ‘Salt Sugar Fat,’” he said. “I thought it was totally ludicrous. How anyone could compare Twinkies to crack cocaine w... Read More...

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Lockdown Weight Gain Is Real

“QUARANTON”? – March 22, 2021 - Good thing stretchy pants aren’t visible on Zoom. For many Americans, buttoning one’s jeans has gotten increasingly harder during the pandemic, and researchers have now estimated just... Read More...

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HOOKED: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions

BOOK REVIEW – March 12, 2021 - Obviously, it is preposterous to consider potato chips less fattening than walnuts — because potato chips are among the most addictive foods on the planet, along with French fries... Read More...

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Soda addiction cost her all her top teeth

SPEAKING HER TOOTH – March 2, 2021 - “Dental hygiene is really and extremely important,” Nowakowski said in a series of TikTok videos. Nowakowski said she was told in 2017 that she would need her entire top ... Read More...

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