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English
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With insights from notable people in medicine, health, business, the arts, and politics, Brzezinski breaks through the walls of silence and shame we've built around obesity and food obsession and talks openly about how our country became overweight, and what we can do to turn the corner and step firmly onto the path of health.
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New Harbinger Publications
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English
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Eating is a common coping mechanism for stress, anxiety, and emotional turmoil, but the ramifications can be significant. This guide is designed to help these millions of people find simple, quick strategies for easing emotion-driven hunger.
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Publisher
Hay House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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The founder of Bright Line Eating offers a new way to conceptualize food recovery by sharing the essential steps to avoid the highs and lows of relapse by understanding the psychological and biological origins of addiction and then giving you the system to break free.
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"In this book, Howard Farkas argues that repeated unwanted eating is driven by a natural desire to control your own choices in life. This creates a conflict between one side of you that wants to be told how you should eat, and another that wants you to make your own choices. This conflict leads you to go from one extreme to the other, creating an ongoing cycle of disordered eating. Farkas explains this process and offers practical skills to help you...
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The Guilford Press
Pub. Date
©2013.
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English
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"This book has already offered tremendous help to more than 100,000 readers struggling with out-of-control eating. Christopher G. Fairburn presents a scientifically based blueprint for breaking free of unhealthy eating patterns and finding new ways to deal with the emotional triggers that lead to binges. Packed with step-by-step instructions and straight-talking advice (for example, strict dieting does more harm than good), the book cuts through the...
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Publisher
Harvest, an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Amy Shah MD, leading medical doctor and Instagram personality @fastingmd, shares her 5-step program for battling excessive hunger and food cravings by harnessing the power of psychobiotics and intermittent fasting"--
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Readers will learn how to become aware of the difference between eating in a healthy way and eating emotionally - neither to satisfy hunger, nor for enjoyment, but in a desperate attempt to distract oneself from painful thoughts and feelings. Diets don't work for people who eat through their emotions. Instead, learning to recognize the stressors that lead to emotional eating and to address those tensions through other methods besides eating is the...
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Salt Sugar Fat comes a “gripping” (The Wall Street Journal) exposé of how the processed food industry exploits our evolutionary instincts, the emotions we associate with food, and legal loopholes in their pursuit of profit over public health.
“The processed food industry has managed to avoid being lumped in with Big Tobacco—which is...
“The processed food industry has managed to avoid being lumped in with Big Tobacco—which is...
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Featuring a 5-part questionnaire to help you identify your personal craving profile Julia Ross, best-selling author and expert in nutrition and overeating, exposes the real reason so many of us can't stick to a healthy diet: our favorite foods are engineered to be addictive. At her clinic in California, Ross and her colleagues treat food addiction where it starts--in the brain--by triggering our natural appetite-regulating neurotransmitters with...
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Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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A revised edition of a best-selling guide builds on the original work's theories about sugar sensitivities and how to overcome a range of health challenges by making alternative food choices, in a reference that draws on new scientific information while sharing reader success stories.
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Distributed to the trade by Macmillan
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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"The author of New York Times bestseller Body-for-Life for Women presents a groundbreaking, neuroscience-based program to rewire your food-addicted brain and get the body you deserve. The body's built-in reward system, driven by the chemical dopamine, is a fascinating adaptation: It tells us to do more of the things that give us pleasure. Creative energy, falling in love, entrepreneurship, and even the continued propagation of the human race are driven...
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New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
"If you have a teen with an eating disorder, such as anorexia, bulimia or binge eating, you may feel powerless, worried or uncertain about how you can best support them on the road to recovery. Grounded in evidence-based strategies, this book will help give you the confidence you need to help your teen make healthy choices and heal in body and mind."--Back cover.
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Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Emotional eating is the number-one cause of obesity in the Western world. In a society that fails to meet our human needs, millions of people medicate themselves with second-best solutions--drinking, drugs, shopping, and the Western drug of choice: eating. But Paul McKenna has cracked the code! "Just when I thought there was nothing more to learn about weight loss, I have discovered the most amazing breakthrough ever," says Dr. McKenna. "It's the...
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"An obesity and neuroscience researcher explores how food choices are often influenced by brain circuits that control survival instincts and draws on cutting-edge neuroscience to offer guidelines for eating well and maintaining a healthy weight,"--NoveList.
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Publisher
A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book/Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Bett's life is a series of pluses and minuses: good moments she believes she doesn't deserve, and self-punishments that she believes she does. Two years ago Bett was athletic, fearless, and prone to daredevil behavior (fizzicle feats, she called them). But when a dare gone wrong leaves her best friend severely and permanently injured, everything changes. Now, Bett is extremely overweight, depressed, and forbids herself from enjoying anything in life,...
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Publisher
Abrams Image
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author, chef-turned-rapper, and host of Viceland's F*ck, That's Delicious and The Untitled Action Bronson Show, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow is a brutally honest chronicle about struggles with weight, food addiction, and the journey to self-acceptance. In his signature voice, Action Bronson shares all that he's learned in the past decade to help you help yourself. This isn't a road map to attaining a so-called perfect...
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Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A candid memoir by folk legend Judy Collins of her lifelong struggle with compulsive overeating and the spiritual solution that saved her. Since childhood, Judy Collins has been preoccupied, haunted, seduced, and taunted by food, a problem that nearly cost her her career and her life. For decades she thought her food issues were moral issues--lack of self-will, lack of discipline--and she worked hard at controlling what she thought of as her shameful...
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