Eating disorders are triggered by practices other people might find normal. Calorie counting, tracking food intake, clocking exercise, analyzing macro and micro nutrients, reaching a daily “step” goal. For others, these are the revolutions of technology in health and fitness.… Read More ›
Category: Food and Nutrition
Depression And Heart Attack Related, Dangerous
According to the American Heart Association, one out of every five people who are hospitalized for either a heart attack or chest pain will develop depression. These patients don’t experience post-surgical depression or passing depression. Major depression is four times… Read More ›
How Should I Talk Around Someone In Recovery From An Eating Disorder?
Generally, friends and family members are encouraged to change the way they talk about food, their relationship to food, weight, and their relationship to weight or body image. Often this challenge… Read More ›
Is Orthorexia An Eating Disorder Focused On Healthy Eating?
Orthorexia is a new term for eating disorders. Today, “clean eating” has become a popular lifestyle trend, bringing many people to a new level of health they have… Read More ›
Picky Eating Taken To The Extreme: Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder
Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder is not anorexia nervosa and it isn’t orthorexia nervosa either. The eating disorder which causes people to have an extreme amount of pickiness over… Read More ›
Brain Stimulation Can Turn Binge Eating On And Off, Research Finds
Scientists recently discovered that activating specific neurons in the brain induces binge eating. The study was conducted to investigate the mechanisms behind binge eating behaviors which can become common… Read More ›
“Thinspired” Social Media Causes Trouble For Eating Disorders
We live in an immensely voyeuristic and exhibitionist world thanks to social media. At first, with a simple post using words of how we were doing, we could create small statements to describe… Read More ›
Binge Eating Disorder Is Different From Overeating
Overeating is a compulsive issue which can bring many health issues, emotional issues, and even issues in relationships to a person’s life. Twelve step groups have been created to help people… Read More ›
5 Methods Of Alternative Healing You’ll Find In Treatment
Treatment for the recovery of mental health disorders has to accompany the individuality which comes with each client. Alternative healing therapies give each client an opportunity to find a method of relaxation and healing which works for them. Healing Through… Read More ›
Which Mental Illness Has The Highest Death Rate?
You might be surprised as to which mental illness has has the highest mortality rate. Depression is often linked to suicide, but isn’t always the cause of it. Substance use disorders like various drug addictions have soared in fatal overdose… Read More ›