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Irina Webster - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Dr Irina Webster MD is the 39 years old Director of Eating Disorder Institute one of the Australia leading suppliers of information on eating disorders.
Her newly published book "Cure Your Eating Disorder: 5 Step Program to Change Your Brain: The Neuroplasticity Approach" became a bestseller this year.
She is also the creator of the Eating Disorder Home Treatment Program that she developed based on her personal experience with an eating disorder and her ... [More]
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- Mindfulness Therapy For Eating Disorders
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Mindfulness therapy means teaching people to have a calm awareness of self and the person's body functions, feelings and content of her/his consciousness. With mindfulness therapy people can reorganize their thinking in response to abnormal eating disorder urges.
- Mindfulness Training For Eating Disorders
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Mindfulness training is a technique which can help a person to cope with all these factors. Mindfulness means a calm awareness of body functions, feelings, emotions, thoughts and sensations. Mindfulness consists of paying attention to an experience of the present moment - without moving into thoughts from the past or concerns about the future. Using mindfulness training people with eating disorders can attain control over their body and mind.
- Meditation For Eating Disorders
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Meditation for eating disorders is an important part of the healing process. Whether you have anorexia, bulimia or binge eating meditation will bring you enormous benefits if practiced regularly on daily basis.
- What Are Eating Disorders - Part 4
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] This is a last article on "What are eating disorders ". In previous articles we looked at eating disorders as disorders of feelings, emotions, self-control, thinking, coping, identity, values and lifestyle. In this article we look at problems with relationships and behaviours.
- What Are Eating Disorders - Part 3
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] In the previous two articles we looked at eating disorders as disorders of feelings, emotions, self-control, thinking and coping. But there are much more to know about Eating disorders. Eating disorders are also disorders of identity, values and lifestyle.
- What Are Eating Disorders - Part 2
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Eating disorder is a disorder of thinking (or the disorder of thought processes). People start thinking in a distorted way about themselves, the world, and their place in it. They thought that gaining even 1 kilo invariably leads to gaining 10 to 20 kilos.
- What Are Eating Disorders - Part 1
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] What are eating disorders? First, I want to mention that eating disorders are not just about food and eating as most people think they are. Secondly, you must understand that eating disorders involve feelings, emotions and a lack of self-control by the sufferers. In this article we look precisely at these.
- Teach Your Mind to Cure Your Brain
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Do you know that by learning new things you are actually changing the structure of your own brain? This amazing ability of the human brain to change itself according to new experiences and new knowledge is called Neuroplasticity.
- 7 Tips to Restore Hunger - Fullness Feelings in Eating Disorder Sufferers Using Intuitive Eating
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Intuitive eating is a nutrition philosophy which teaches people to become more attune to the body's natural hunger and fullness signals in order to attain a healthy weight and to become a generally healthier person. It is a process that is intended to create a healthy relationship with food, mind, and body. Intuitive eating can also be called wise eating, conscious eating, non-diet approach and normal eating.
- Magical Benefits of Meditation For People With Eating Disorders
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Many researches have proven now that people with eating disorders derive a lot of benefits from doing meditation. Eating disorder sufferers have disturbances in autonomic nervous system, problems with impulse control and many emotional problems. All these can be improved with regular meditation.
- Male Eating Disorders - 10 Things You Can Do to Help
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] According to general statistic one out of ten patients with eating disorders is a man. That means that men are 10% of all eating disorders suffers, but according to the opinions of many experts the number could even be higher. The problem with men is that they are reluctant to come and complain about their problems and hide their problems longer than women do. All these make it hard to show an accurate statistic for male-sufferers.
- Cure Your Eating Disorder With the Power of Neuroplasticity - 5 Crucial Steps
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Neuroplasticity is the ability of the human brain to change itself based on how we live our lives. Our brain consists of cells or neurons that are interconnected. It means that different life experiences and different behaviours are constantly changing the strength of these connections, by adding or removing connections, and by adding new cells.
- Adult Eating Disorders - How to Deal If the Person Doesn't Admit Having One
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] If you are dealing with an adult who suffers from an eating disorder, then you should adjust your talk to a relevant format. Remember, an adult may use stronger language than a child would use. Do not get angry. It will not do any good, and will probably make things worse. Plus, the sufferer will not want to confide in you.
- 5 Important Tips to Stop Binging Food For Bulimia and Binge Eating Disorder Sufferers
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] You will learn the 5 basic tips on how to stop binging food for bulimia and binge eating disorder sufferers. 1. "The fork down" method. 2. Chew your food longer. 3. Drinking fills you up and slows you down. Water stops you from racing through your food. And more.
- Do Parents Cause Eating Disorders in Their Children?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] There has been a lot of discussion lately on the roll of parents causing eating disorders in their children, is this the case or not? It is very sensitive topic because it is painful for families to even think that they are a possible cause of their daughter/ son bulimia and/or anorexia.
- How Anorexia Could Have Contributed to Michael Jackson's Death
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Autopsy report revealed that at the time of death Michael Jackson weighted just 50 kilograms which is very low for a man his height and age. Also it was said that his body was covered with marks from injections of pain killers. He had no hair and wore a wig before his death. His stomach was absolutely empty except of partially dissolved drugs which he took a few hours before his final moment.
- 7 Signs That Michael Jackson Had an Eating Disorder
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Michael Jackson has died and there are speculations about the cause of his death. Stress, drug problems, weak lungs and heart and extremely low body weight are all implicated. Numerous rumours suggest that at the time of his death Michael weighted slightly over 100 pounds.
- Building Self Esteem in an Eating Disorder Sufferer Might Help Them Recover
[Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] Very often people wonder how they can help an eating disorder person to get better. What they can do at home that can be useful for the sufferer's recovery?
- Orthorexia is a Dangerous Obsession With "Healthy" Eating
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] It is great to eat healthy and most of people will benefit greatly by paying more attention to what they eat. However, some people get so involved and focusing on their food that it becomes an obsession. This obsession with "healthy" eating can override people's other interests in life, impair their relationships, replace their love and joy in life and cause other mental and physical problems.
- Diabulimia is an Extremely Dangerous Eating Disorder For Diabetics
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Diabulimia is an eating disorder that is becoming more common among people with type 1 diabetes, especially in teenagers who are more affected than adults. This is happening because teens often lose weight before their diabetes is diagnosed but then when their insulin treatment begins they quickly gain weight. Some teens get very unhappy with the fact they are putting on weight, they then figure out that if they skip an insulin dose it is possible to lose weight.
- Pregorexia - Is it a Selfish Obsession Or A Cultural Problem With Modern Women?
[Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] A new study shows that 20% of all pregnant women in the Western world do not gain enough weight during pregnancy. The condition we are talking about is called "pregorexia". These women don't eat enough during pregnancy or induce vomiting, overexercise, take laxatives and diuretics. They do these dangerous things for the sake of having a slim figure during and immediately after pregnancy.
- 9 Types of Food That Are Extremely Important For Your Eating Disorder Recovery
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] I am often asked what kind of food I would recommend for eating disorders sufferers that can help them to develop new neuronal pathways in order to stop their eating disorders. Of course my first suggestion would be to eat a balanced meal but I do have certain foods I can recommend to make brain changes easier.
- Is Anorexia a Form of Brainwashing?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Anorexia has a lot of similarities with brainwashing. Brainwashing occurs when people join cults or weird religous groups. These change people's identity completely, just like anorexia changes people's identity completely. What is the common mechanism for these two processes?
- Eating Disorders Are the Reverse Side of the Child Obesity Campaign
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] In 2006 the Australian Government launched a $6 million campaign to reduce Child obesity and the Australian Medical Association (AMA) welcomed the focus on kids' health. The idea was to focus on junk food and get parents to stop the child from eating fast foods, sweets and other unhealthy foods. TV, radio and newspapers were running government sponsored ads to point out the dangers of these kinds of foods, with the idea to get kids eating more healthy foods.
- Eating Disorders Are Result of Brain Plasticity
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] What is brain plasticity? And how is it related to developing an eating disorder?
- Neuroplasticity is the Key to Eating Disorders Treatment
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Researchers are now suggesting that neuroplasticity could be the answer to treating eating disorders. They are of the view that our own brains, thoughts and emotions are not rigid or fixed in place. But can be changed in order to treat and even cure eating disorders.
- 5 Invaluable Tips on Becoming Pregnant Fast
[Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] How to become pregnant fast? Many people want to know the answer to this question. There are some tips which will definitely improve your chances on becoming pregnant fast. Let's look at the 5 main ones.
- Become Pregnant at Your Next Ovulation
[Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] You would be surprised how many women miss their best time to become pregnant: this is the exact time of ovulation. The best time only lasts for 1-2 days in a month (for women whose ovulation runs monthly). But for most women after 35yrs ovulation can occur once in a few months. And the older you get the rarer your ovulation happens.
- Eating Disorders and the Most Common Antidepressant
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Prozac can be very helpful for some eating disorder sufferers, but there are many others who will not benefit from it at all. Why is it that some people get benefits from this medication and some do not?
- How to Cure Eating Disorders
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] One of the ways to treat eating disorders is to change one's association with food. To explain more: the person associates all their good positive feelings, control, pleasure, truth and self-confidence with food. They feel reassured by the control they have over their food intake and use it as a substitute for their lack of control over their feelings in the real world. If you break this association and replace it with different one, you have a good chance to cure an eating disorder.
- A True Anorexia - Bulimia Story - Help Me Mom
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] This is a true story of girl who suffered anorexia-bulimia for 10 years. Triggers and probable reasons of her eating disorder are shown. Also you can see how her mother approached her about the problems and what her initial reaction was.
- Anorexia-Bulimia is Not About Food - Well, What is it All About?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Many people just associate anorexia-bulimia with food and/or dieting. But this is not the case. An eating disorder is not just about food and dieting.
- Revolutionary Self-Help Programs to Beat Eating Disorders
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] As a doctor I have worked with many women struggling with eating disorders. I am also a former suffer of anorexia and bulimia myself (this was the main reason I decided to learn everything I could about these conditions and help myself and other people to recover from it). I believe that most eating disorders are learned behavior.
- How to Help Anorexic Children
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] What we understand from our personal experience coping with a child suffering from anorexia is that there isn't one single definitive guide or course of action for you and your child to follow that will guarantee a solution to their eating problems. Your attitude and beliefs about children and teenagers and the interaction of the parents affect the way you respond to your child. You should understand that you are not responsible for your child's illness as well as you should understand that your child turned to an eating disorder for emotional comfort.
- Personal Web-Sites About Bulimia Nervosa
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Although professional medical sites provide you with a lot of statistics, description of the symptoms and probable dangers of bulimia, personal sites show a human side to the problem. Do you think personal sites about bulimia give you better information about this disease? I personally think yes, they do.
- Becoming Pregnant Faster
[Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] To become pregnant faster you need to know your ovulation time precisely which you can identify using natural body signs (the most reliable method). It is also important to deliver the maximum number of healthy sperm during this ovulation time. To increase your chance to fall pregnant your partner should build up their sperm count prior to ovulation time.
- How to Get Pregnant After 40
[Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] You can overcome infertility after 40 by applying certain natural fertility methods correctly. Many older women failed to get pregnant just simply because they can't find the right time when they can fall pregnant.
- A Life Story of Anorexia-Bulimia Sufferer - Why She Does it and What is Her Life Like?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] People often ask me to describe what a day in the life of an anorexic-bulimic sufferer is really like. How do people become eating disorder sufferers and what do sufferers themselves think about their disorder and why they developed it.
- Infertility Treatment With Herbal Therapy is the Best Way to Fall Pregnant
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Different herbs have been used for infertility treatment for thousands of years. A well known example of how herbs can help you to fall pregnant is in the Bible, with the story of Rachel and Leah.
- People With Eating Disorders - In What Ways Do They Suffer and Why?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] People with eating disorders suffer in many ways: physically, mentally and emotionally. All of them normally feel down although anorexics sometimes feel high in the beginning of the disorder.
- People With Bulimia - Why Don't They Get Satisfied When They Have Eaten Enough Food?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] People with bulimia don't experience a proper sense of satisfaction when they eat. They can eat food then more food and the feelings of hunger or cravings can still be present: this then makes them eat more and more. When they go on a binge it seems there isn't enough food for them to stop and feel satisfied. Bulimics eat until they get so full they must purge it all up.
- How to Stop a Binge If You Have Bulimia
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] To stop a binge is probably the most difficult tusk for a bulimic. All sufferers say that when the thoughts come about binging it is nearly impossible for them to stop. And the longer it goes on the more it becomes uncontrollable.
- Overcome Bulimia - The Strategy to Change Your Focus
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] From what I can see the main problem with all bulimics is their focus. Where is their focus? - On food and binging-purging. Bulimics are always busy thinking about what they are going to binge on, how they are going to get the food, what time they are going to start etc.
- Eating Health - Does Extremely Healthy Eating Lead to Eating Disorders?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] According to new research the promotion of healthy eating to fight obesity can drive some teenagers into eating disorders. Also many adult women and men admit that the extremes of trying to eat healthy lead them into abnormal eating behaviors and later to a fully developed eating disorder. So the question is how healthy for you is a "healthy eating plan" and diet?
- Eating Disorders Effects
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Eating disorders have very many effects on the sufferers. The effects can be divided into mental, spiritual and physical.
- Anorexia Side Effects
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Anorexia is not just about weight loss and refusing to eat. Anorexia has major side effects on the mental, physical and emotional state of a person.
- Eating Disorders Studies - What Has Been Found So Far?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Researching eating disorders is a relatively new field of medicine. Scientists still don't have a lot of data on a long-term recovery process from eating disorders. But many things about who is susceptible to the disease, how it starts and how it develops is known and that is what we will look at here.
- Eating Disorders and the Media
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] It is proven now that media can influence the beginning of eating disorders in some people. This is evident especially in children and teens who can easily be lulled into the wrong image of what the human body is supposed to look like.
- Bulimia in Men
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] It was with great interest that I read in the UK Telegraph about the ex deputy prime minister of the UK John Prescott and his battle with bulimia. It is good that man in such a high powered position has finally come out and said he was a sufferer of this insidious disorder. It was also with interest that the headline in the Times online said "How could a big man like John Prescott have a girl's illness"?
- Bulimia Weight Loss - Does it Really Work?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] This article is for those who believe that she/he has found a magic wand to control their body weight and it is called bulimia. Many bulimics think they invented it and keep it secret for a long time because it feels shameful to admit about throwing up food. Bulimia as a weight loss strategy is common and affects about 4%-6% of women.
- Anorexia Nervosa Treatment
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] The treatment for anorexia nervosa is often difficult and can take a long time. Some patients improve much slower then others do with many relapses during the recovery process. The treatment can be subdivided into immediate or long term anorexia treatment.
- Severe Anorexia - What is the Main Step to Cure It?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Treatment for severe anorexia should start from hospitalization to restore the person's body weight. The duration of hospitalization can be different and depends on how fast the anorexic gains their weight. In average many experts believe that 10-12 weeks with full nutritional support are required to restore weight in case of anorexia.
- Effects of Bulimia Nervosa
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Bulimia has a number of dangerous side effects on the human body. Some of them appear sooner, some appear later as the disease progresses. It is important for anyone who has bulimia to stop the progression of their bulimia and don't let the severe effects of bulimia appear in the first place.
- Ways To Cure Bulimia Nervosa
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] There are many ways to treat bulimia but not very many of them really cure bulimia. Popular treatment is going to the doctors or clinics or a counselor. How helpful are these?
- Warning Signs For Bulimia In Kids And Teens
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Bulimics normally become very good at hiding their condition from family and friends. Bulimia has been described as secretive and sneaky and it most certainly is.
- How to Overcome Bulimia by Eliminating Subconscious Blockages
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] I know you are thinking right now "Why do I have bulimia? How can I overcome it? And why isn't anything I tried before stopping it and has failed to help?
- How to Fall Pregnant Faster Despite Medical Problems
[Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] To fall pregnant faster you need to identify the exact day of ovulation. This is important especially when you are getting older or having medical problems.
- History of Bulimia and How It Evolved Into a New Problem
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] The History of bulimia is old. Even in ancient Rome people used to vomit up food they ate in the period of feasting. They even had special places for it called "vomitorium".
- Emotional Consequences of Eating Disorders
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Eating Disorders can only be described as a living hell. They consume every minute of your waking hours where the sufferer is so caught up in counting calories, reading the back of packets, measuring and weighing food, thinking when and where they are going to binge and how to sneak away to throw it all back up.
- Calorie Restriction Versus Anorexia Nervosa
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] There is a small, but growing group of extreme dieters who believe that significantly reducing the amount of food they eat, will not only delay the aging of the body, but also prevent developing heart problems, diabetes and other chronic diseases. This movement, called calorie restriction or some call it CR, is getting massive attention from Baby Boomers. Longevity-obsessed people in this category are continuously looking for ways to keep young and fit as long as possible.
- Long Term Effects of Bulimia Nervosa
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Bulimia affects different organs. And the longer you have bulimia the more organs get affected and damaged. The organs that suffer the most are: heart, kidney, brain, digestive system, bones, skin and endocrine glands.
- Fluid Retention in Bulimia Nervosa
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Many bulimia sufferers complain about fluid retention in their body from time to time. The symptoms of this problem are: swelling of the legs and feet, plumped up fingers and hands, feelings of puffiness over the whole body.
- Bulimia Symptoms That You Can Observe
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] People with bulimia are very secretive about their disorder. For this reason it is very difficult to notice anything as an observer. Bulimics look normal to other people. Even close family members initially have difficulty seeing what is going on with the person.
- Dangers in Bulimia
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Bulimia affects the whole body. But the most obvious effects it has is on the nervous system, mental state, gastro-intestinal, cardio system, kidney, skin, bones and the hormonal system.
- Weight Gain For Anorexia Sufferers
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Getting people with anorexia to gain weight and eat more is the number one thing in helping them get better. Increasing weight for anorexics improves their health and helps them think clearly. There is a strong connection in anorexia between weight and thoughts: the lower the weight goes their thoughts get vaguer about their body image and the whole of reality.
- Getting Pregnant After Miscarriage
[Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] Is getting pregnant after a miscarriage any different from getting pregnant if you never been pregnant before? Yes and no.
- Best Time To Get Pregnant
[Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] When is the best time to get pregnant? How many women (and maybe men) want to know the answer to this simple question?
- Yoga Postures For Infertility
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Yoga promotes and improves fertility. There are a few specific yoga practices that can be used for it. They have been known for a long time and there is mention of these special yoga practices in the ancient papers.
- Homeopathy for Infertility in New York
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Homeopathy is a growing field for infertility problems. More and more people everyday is looking for infertility help in homeopathy clinics. In New York the number of homeopathy clinics that work with infertile patients is increasing every month. And the reason for it is an increasing demand for homeopathic treatment among women looking to get pregnant.
- Anorexia And Ecstasy Have The Same Nature
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] The mystery of anorexia biochemical cause could be unraveled according a new research of Dr. Valerie Compan of Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Montpellier, France.
- Cause of Bulimia Nervosa
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Bulimia is one of the most rapidly increasing psychological problems around nowadays. But what causes bulimia? Is it an extreme response to Western society's pressure on young girls and women to be slim? Or are there other factors contributing to the problem?
- Bulimia Recovery
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Bulimia recovery will happen at home, over time. Family and home therapy are probably two of the most important aspects in the treatment of bulimia.
- Media And Influence On Women Body Image
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] It has become obvious now that the media advertises and promotes a very unhealthy trend of extreme dieting and other bad eating habits to women. What could be a solution?
- Bulimia Nervosa Testimonials of Recovery
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Bulimia Nervosa Testimonials of Recovery are all different but have one thing in common.
- Is Group Therapy Really Helpful For Eating Disorder Sufferers?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Group therapy can be helpful for some patients, but for many patients group therapy bring more harm that help.
- Can You Fight Bulimia and Other Food Addictions With Herbal Medicine?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Bulimics and other food addicts eat compulsively. They can't stop their compulsive behavior once they have started their binge eating and tend to disregard the consequences of their behaviors. These people are persistently preoccupied with buying, preparing, cooking and eating food.
- Laugh Your Way to Beating an Eating Disorder
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] A doctor did an experiment with 6 eating disorder sufferers. People were asked to laugh at least an hour a day. All participants reported improvement in their mental state.
- Is Your Child at Risk of Developing an Eating Disorder?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Parents are in the best position to help their children and influence their children's behavior. Now there are things you can do to stop eating disorders before they develop.
- Eating Disorder Doctor's Personal Story
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Doctor's personal story about years of suffering anorexia-bulimia. And how a new eating disorder treatment program was born.
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