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This article by Eric M. Matheson, MS, MD, Dana E. King, MS, MD, and Charles J. Everett, PhD demonstrates that “Healthy lifestyle habits are associated with a significant decrease in mortality regardless of baseline body mass index.”
Current guidelines recommend that “overweight” and “obese” individuals lose weight through engaging in lifestyle modification involving diet, exercise and other behavior change. This approach reliably induces short term weight loss, but the majority of individuals are unable to maintain weight loss over the long term and do not achieve the putative benefits of improved morbidity and mortality. Concern has arisen that this weight focus is not only ineffective at producing thinner, healthier bodies, but may also have unintended consequences, contributing to food and body preoccupation, repeated cycles of weight loss and regain, distraction from other personal health goals and wider health determinants, reduced self-esteem, eating disorders, other health decrement, and weight stigmatization and discrimination. This concern has drawn increased attention to the ethical implications of recommending treatment that may be ineffective or damaging.
This article is by Judith Matz, LCSW and Ellen Frankel, LCSW, Co-authors of The Diet Survivor’s Handbook: 60 Lessons in Eating, Acceptance and Self-Care
Find more of their amazing work at http://www.dietsurvivors.com.
This article, by Linda Bacon, PhD and Judith Matz, LCSW, was published in the November/December issue of Diabetes Self-Management and is intended to serve as a valuable resource for people who have diabetes and who are looking for ways to care for themselves without a weight loss focus. There is a strong HAES perspective with great information about ASDAH and other ways to care for oneself while living with diabetes.
Food is advertised in a very sensual way, almost as a means of convincing women to forget men and just put all of their emotional baggage into food. We must be wary of advertising done in this fashion, and this article will explain how it’s done and how to see through it.
GO GIRLS! (Giving Our Girls Inspiration and Resources for Lasting Self-Esteem) is a program developed by Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention, Inc. (EDAP; http://www.edap.org). Its goal is to prevent the development of eating disorders among high school students through media literacy education, media activism, and media advocacy (1). Media literacy education involves enhancing participants’ ability to analyze critically messages in various media forms and to create media messages that reflect an alternative viewpoint (2). The media activism component relates to changing the media through protesting or praising particular media products. Media advocacy involves using the media to communicate messages in the participants’ own words with the goal of changing important aspects of their environment.
Dr. Jon Robison wrote this amazing Special Report that was published by the Wellness Council of America (WELCOA). It discusses the detrimental affects of obsessing about weight loss and dieting and following a weight-centered approach to health rather than a behavior centered one. These ten steps are excellent suggestions for how to begin living your life now the way it should be lived.
A triad of problems has been known to occur in athletic women and also women who are very thin. Efforts to combat these three illnesses and their collective appearance has been made, and this article discusses ways that such women can be approached and treated to restore optimum health.
Though the authors of this article write that, “Combining the basic ideas of intuitive eating with body size acceptance may be a promising approach for optimal physical and mental health,” it is not entirely clear that they believe this themselves. Rather than analyze Intuitive Eating in order to evaluate its health benefits, this article explores Intuitive Eating for its potential - and as of yet unproven - ability to result in weight loss. Though a curious combination of opinions, this is not an uncommon approach.
April was Emotional Overeating Awareness Month. Enjoy 30 tips, one for every day in the month of April, on emotional overeating. This month of awareness was established by Dr. Denise Lamothe to call attention to the serious problem that many people face when it comes to food: emotional eating. Whether you are an emotional eater or not, these tips can be very useful in becoming more aware of the way you eat and in becoming a more intuitive eater. Thanks to Dr. Denise Lamothe for letting us share them with the More of Me to Love community!
Using the interesting metaphor of a plane arriving at its destination, Dr. Karin Kratina analyzes the importance of mitigating negative self-talk when trying to reform our relationship with eating and food. Listening to ourselves should be a non-judgmental activity with the collective intention of benefiting ourselves and our health in the long-run. It seems intuitive but so many people fail to do it. This article shares Dr. Kratina’s fascinating incites into these issues.
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