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Chemically Manufactured 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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Mother and Daughter Share Their Journey Through an Eating Disorder

WALKING HAND IN HAND – May 14, 2022 - By this point — at the recommendation of her counsellor — she had given the voice a name and started to speak to it. She called the voice “the bitch.” saying it tried to co... Read More...

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I’ve Always Struggled With My Weight, Losing It Didn’t Mean Winning

AUDIO – IT’S WHAT’S ON THE OUTSIDE THAT COUNTS – May 11, 2022 - ...guzzling chips, chocolate, chocolate chips, peanut butter, peanut butter chocolate chips, chocolate peanut butter ice cream sprinkled with pea... Read More...

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16 Celebs Who Refused To Lose Weight for Work

VIDEO – TAKING A STAND – May 6, 2022 - Despite her success and show of range on Saturday Night Live, Aidy Bryant was only offered mediocre and offensive roles. She told AdWeek, “There was one where — and I don... Read More...

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Ireland Baldwin Recalls Being “Tortured” by Eating Disorders

VIDEO – WHEN SNACK FOODS KILL – April 26, 2022 - “I just hit a total breaking point,” she told the talk show’s co-host Willow Smith. “I was self-medicating with Xanax and I was drinking. And I have a lot of al... Read More...

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Is the Military Creating ‘A Perfect Storm’ For Eating Disorders?

TOO MUCH WEIGHT TO CARRY – April 15, 2022 - To Rand, that meant meeting the strict military standards for weight and body fat percentages. At the same time, she was coping with a sexual assault that happened wh... Read More...

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“Real Housewife” Pulls Back Curtain on Her Eating Disorder

VIDEO – YOU CAN BE TOO THIN – April 12, 2022 - In the carefully curated Bravo universe, thinness is considered a laudable moral success, and the Real Housewives franchise is ground zero for linking it to aspira... Read More...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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Infant Formula Promoted As Healthier Than Mother’s Milk

MOM’S NEED NOT APPLY – March 1, 2022 - “The nature of the marketing really sought to exploit emotions, the fears and the ambitions of, women and families at a time when they’re potentially most vulnerable,” sa... 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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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...

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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...

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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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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...

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