In this illuminating and groundbreaking new book, a food psychologist will help readers change the way they look at food, and the facts needed to easily make smarter, healthier, more mindful and enjoyable choices at the dinner table, in the supermarket, in restaurants, at the office--even at a vending machine.
Dr. Gould presents his well-tested strategy for helping readers conquer what leads to emotional eating--fear, anxiety, stress, and other factors--and slim down.
Do you use food to comfort yourself when you're feeling depressed or stressed? Do you sometimes eat simply because you're bored? There are so many opportunities to snack and overeat mindlessly, it's no wonder that most diets fail. But mindless eating can lead to health problems, obesity, and a feeling that you've lost control. Eating the Moment ...
Here is an accessible and encouraging exploration of how and why to apply the Zen art of mindfulness to transform our 'issues' with food. Whether we are overweight or suffer from an eating disorder, learning to eat mindfully can liberate us from the suffering we experience with food. Practiced for centuries in the Zen tradition, mindful eating is ...
An expert on eating disorders shows readers how to end mindless eating and enjoy a balanced relationship with food. Here, she introduces concepts of awareness of eating behaviors, exercises for healing negative patterns, and a means for restoring tranquility to meals.
Everyone who has struggled with food--whether they're an overeater, undereater, or somewhere in between-- would like to know how to eat "normally." This commonsense approach combines cognitive-behavioural techniques and mindfulness to get pleasure and satisfaction from eating. Filled with humour, compassion, insight, and practical wisdom. An ideal ...
"The Sex Life Of Food" is a delightful panorama about how our two strongest urges, food and sex, work with one another in surprising ways. Facts and ideas, lavishly flavoured with humour, lead from one observation to another. "Food is Love," writes Crumpacker. "If cooking is foreplay, eating is making love, and doing the dishes is the morning ...
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.
Get off the dieting roller coaster and stop overeating at its source - the brain. The brain is an adaptable organ, one that is always learning and always rewiring itself. One of the reasons so many people struggle to lose weight is that their brains become programmed to eat unhealthy food. The good news is that you can rewire your brain to undo ...
A child psychologist who has extensively researched questions of taste explains the often complex attitudes children bring with them to the dinner table, and offers parents creative ways to get children to approach eating with the same curiosity and enthusiasm they display toward other activities.
The sex life of food is a delightful panorama about how our two strongest urges, food and sex, work with one another in surprising ways. Facts and ideas, lavishly flavoured with humour, lead from one observation to another. "Food is Love," writes Crumpacker. "If cooking is foreplay, eating is making love, and doing the dishes is the morning after. ...
Finally, a solution for the 138 million Americans who are overweight and obese. Bestselling author and psychotherapist Anne Katherine - herself a recovering overeater who specializes in treating appetite disorders and food addictions - leads the reader step by step through a process that will make her ready and able to diet successfully. The book ...
This plan teaches readers how to identify the stressors in their lives and the corresponding reactions, and how to incorporate appropriate new behaviors into any kind of lifestyle.
This text examines the range of human and animal behaviour associated with obtaining and consuming food and drink. It looks at how organisms regulate the amount they consume and the roles of learning and motivation in the choice of food.
The bestselling author of Outsmarting the Female Fat Cell offers a sound, satisfying, five-week, five-point Optimal Nutrition plan that shows women how to create a sensible eating regimen that anticipates and incorporates cravings for maximum mood management and minimal weight fluctuation.
The proof is in the (chocolate) pudding: almost 50% of women would choose chocolate over sex, and 76% would prefer chocolate to alcohol as a mood enhancer; after eating chocolate, women report increased alertness and reduced fatigue. If chocolate makes you feel good, then it's doing you good as well! Recent research shows chocolate can actually ...
Food is central to the lives of all, and has for centuries been celebrated in art, poetry and song. More recently, media interest has focused public attention on the food we eat, and its influence on physical health and mental well-being. However, it is only in the past couple of decades that social scientists and social psychologists in ...
Approaching its topic with humor, style, and a critical eye, this unique guidebook enables parents to provide a healthy and diverse diet for their children. Instead of providing yet another guide to kids' nutrition, a medical discussion, a treatise on the perils of obesity, or a parenting primer on good table manners, this study demonstrates that ...
Loretta LaRoche is sick to death of diets and diet books. Not a day goes by without an article appearing in the media that reveals some food that could be harmful or helpful to our health. Food has become either demonic or divine. We've forgotten how to be in "right relationship" with one of the greatest pleasures we have in life: eating. As a ...
With engineers working around the clock to figure out how to add "irresistibility" and "whoosh" to food, and the ever-expanding choices (and portions) available to us, it's no wonder we've become a culture on caloric overload. But with obesity rising at alarming rates, we're in desperate need of dietary intervention. In The End of Overeating, Dr. ...
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