Deadlier Than Covid and Opiates READ THE LABELS – March 25, 2022 - Front-of-package warning labels that alert consumers to unhealthy levels of sodium, as pioneered by Chile and now implemented in Israel, Mexico and elsewhere, give consumers ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 5 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionlife expectancyMental HealthRecoveryRehab
Focus on Smoking, Obesity and Alcoholism has ‘Gone Backwards’ A VISIONARY? – March 23, 2022 - He warned that some of the solutions would “require political capital” and were “not necessarily going to be immediately popular”. Prof Whitty said the temptation was to “alwa... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionMarch 29 2022marijuanaMental HealthRecoveryRehabsmoking
Why is There a Mental-Health Crisis Among American Children? SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN – Mar. 23, 2022 - Last June, researchers from Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine documented six unusual cases in the journal Movement Disorders. The subjects wer... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusdepressionEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionlonelinessMarch 29 2022Mental HealthRecoverySmartphone AddictionteenagersTrauma
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediadiet sodaEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionMarch 22 2022Mental HealthRecovery
Making Peace With Your Body IT STARTS RIGHT NOW – Mar. 18, 2022 - How long would it be, I wondered, until they would be repeating some version of this refrain? Just moments before, I had listened to a whole different storyline unfold. Tw... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionEating Disorderfood addictioninternetinterventionMarch 22 2022Mental HealthRecoveryRehabSmartphone AddictionTrauma
Euphoria star Says Working in Porn Led to an Eating Disorder SKIN AND BONERS – Mar. 9, 2022 - With the help of mental health professionals, Euphoria’s Chloe Cherry has recovered from an eating disorder, but it’s something she’s not sure she would have developed if it wa... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionInterviewMarch 15 2022Mental HealthRecoveryTrauma
The Unhealthiest Fast-Food Chain DRIVE IN, CARRIED OUT – Feb. 26, 2022 - When it comes to the Ch’King, the chain’s new signature chicken sandwich, it is by far the worst pick of its kind. Of course, chicken sandwiches are generally high in fa... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionlife expectancyMay 8 2018Mental HealthObesityRecovery
Teen Girls With Eating Disorders Doubled During Pandemic IF FOOD BE THE MUSIC OF LIFE – Feb. 25, 2022 - Covid-19 remained the predominant reason for ER visits among kids – particularly among children too young to be vaccinated during the Omicron wave, when visits for... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusEating DisorderinterventionMarch 1 2022Recoveryteenagers
Is Cannibalism Bad For Your Health? IT TAKES GUTS TO EAT HERE – Jan. 22, 2022 - In some cultures, cannibalism involved eating parts of one’s enemies to take on their strength. Elsewhere, the consumption of human flesh had a more ritual significan... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaEating DisorderFeb 1 2022interventionMental HealthTrauma
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediadiet sodaEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionJan 11 2022Recovery
A New Era for Obesity Treatment? ONE PILL MAKES YOU SMALLER – Dec. 26, 2021 - In a 68-week study of nearly 2,000 patients, those who received weekly injections of semaglutide lost an average of 15 percent of their body weight, or roughly 34 p... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 28 2021Drug Abuse and AddictionEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionRecovery
Searching for a Better Treatments for Eating Disorders WE NEED TO LOOK HARDER – Dec. 17, 2021 - But in recent years, scientists have made inroads. They know more about which psychological treatments work best, and are hoping to devise new types of therapies by exp... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDec 21 2021Eating Disorderfood addictionRecovery
‘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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 21 2021diet sodaEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionRecoveryteenagers
Shocking Effect Eating KFC for a Month Had on Aussie Fitness Guru! WATCH – FINGER LICKIN’ GROSS – Dec. 2, 2021 - A fitness fanatic who challenged himself to only eat KFC for a month revealed he gained one kilogram of weight every three days. Conan Visser packed on eight ki... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 7 2021Eating Disorderfood addictionRecovery
Men Struggling To Be Seen and Treated For Their Eating Disorders SUFFERING BEHIND THE SMILES – Dec. 18, 2021 - Tommy’s eating disorder had already robbed him of his semi-professional football career. He’d played for West Brom and the Scottish national team, but serious nerv... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryDec 7 2021Eating Disorderfood addictionRecovery
How Instagram ‘Traps’ People with Eating Disorders WITH SMOKE, MIRRORS AND FILTERS – Dec. 3, 2021 - “People with eating disorders can get trapped in a vicious cycle of content related to disordered eating and weight loss,” says Nagata. In cases like these, he ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 7 2021Eating Disorderfood addictionRecovery
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...Addiction Recoverydiet sodaEating Disorderfood addictionnicotineNov 30 2021smoking
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediadiet sodaEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionNov 23 2021Recovery
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediadiet sodaEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionlife expectancyOct 26 2021
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediadiet sodaEating Disorderfood addictioninternetinterventionlife expectancyMental HealthOct 19 2021Recovery
What Happened To Brittany Murphy? WATCH – STAR STRUCK – Oct. 11, 2021 - For those who were too young or too checked out of celebrity culture (lucky you) at the time, Brittany Murphy, who died under mysterious circumstances at just 32 yea... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionEating DisorderinterventionMental HealthOct 19 2021Trauma
Achieving Happiness is a Balance ON THE BEAM – OCT. 2021 - Dopamine balance can be complicated. Along with the feelings listed above, dopamine is also the “just one more” hormone. It can become too much. This is part of the reason why people stru... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionEating DisorderGaminginterventionMental HealthOct 19 2021RecoveryTrauma
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediadiet sodaEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionObesityOct 19 2021Recovery
Ex-Alcoholic and Eating Disorder Survivor Open Restaurant Together THEY TASTE SUCCESS EVERY DAY – Oct. 3, 2021 - Justin traces his story back to his teenage years when he was a successful 100m athlete - he holds the record in Suffolk to this day. When he quit running at 19... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionOct 12 2021RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediadiet sodaEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionOct 5 2021
Doing the Dance Between Life and Death with Orthorexia Nervosa WATCH – IF FOOD BE THE FOOD OF LOVE, EAT ON – Sept. 5, 2021 - When she began her recovery, she was able to trace many of her challenges back to the impact of growing up with a difficult home life. She lo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRehabSept 14 2021
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediadiet sodaEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionSept 14 2021
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediadiet sodaEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionMental HealthRecoverySept 14 2021
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity Sobrietydiet sodaEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionInterviewMental HealthSept 14 2021
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediadiet sodaEating Disorderfood addictioninterventionInterviewMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 14 2021