Fat Definition, Word Origin, and Nutritional History
The Fat of the Land I have a simmering obsession with word origins. I also write about fat a lot, so it would be rude of me not to look into the word and…
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Writing on eating disorder recovery for adults — the recovery process, neural rewiring, extreme hunger, weight restoration, and more.
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Pica
Pica Pica is characterized by an appetite for substances largely non-nutritive, such as ice, clay, chalk, dirt, or sand. According to the DSM-5 criteria, to…
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What Ancient Mummies Teach Us About Heart Disease and Fat
Ever wonder how the ancient mummies died in the first place? I have, many times. When I was young I remember thinking the that mummies must have died of old…
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Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder (OSFED)
Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder (OSFED) According to the DSM-5 criteria, to be diagnosed as having OSFED a person must present with a feeding or…
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Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)
Eating disorders come in all different shapes and sizes, there is often parts and pieces that do or do not fit in with diagnosis. ARFID is a gap filler, it…
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5 reasons Anorexia is not about control.
I suffered anorexia nervosa for over eight years. In this time I was told by various people, some of them doctors, many of them concerned individuals that…
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When Body Image and Eating Disorder Memes Do More Harm than Good
Sometimes things are posted with all the best intentions, but they can do more harm than good. An example of this is a body image meme that circulates…
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3 things I wish everyone knew about Anorexia
See the full article as published in Mind. Body. Green here
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The Fat of The Land
Link to the full article published in Elephant Journal here!
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Can the nutrition of one generation can change the genetics of another?
"The environment that we are exposed to as fetuses or young children can cause permeant changes in the way our genes function" "Epigenetics" describe…
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My personal experience of the Modeling Industry and Anorexia.
Read the article - click here!
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Warming up, over- exercising and anorexia.
Today I was reading a study by Carrera et al (2012) that looked at over exercise in anorexia and pondered whether this was a product of low body fat and…
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Study Review; Autism and Anorexia
Today I was reading a Cambridge University Study done just last year into the similarities between Autism and Anorexia. Here is the abstract that Simon…
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Study Review; Minnesota Starvation Experiment
Key Points 1. Ironically, malnutrition makes a person not want to gain weight. The catch-22 is that once the person gains some weight, their brain starts…
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Exercise in Anorexics; Study Review
In my daily research I came across a study that sparked my interest today; Impact of exercise on energy metabolism in anorexia nervosa- Zopfel et al 2013…