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Warning Signs You May be Anorexic
by Susan Patterson
Anorexia affects more than 1% of teenage girls in America, but many young adults also suffer from this eating disorder. People with anorexia are obsessed with their weight and usually undertake dangerous methods to get thin. Distorted body images cause people to believe that they are fat when they are actually underweight, and up to 10% of the teenagers who develop anorexia will die as a result of it.
Enjoy What You Eat and Lose Weight
by Susan Patterson
Diets tend to focus on what you can’t have: no donuts, no pasta with heavy cream sauce, and no cheesecake. But what if you viewed your diet as focusing on what you need to add instead of what you need to take away? Also known as positive eating, this method of watching what you eat takes the focus off of deprivation and instead directs you to enjoy whatever you eat. Gone is the idea that microwavable meals in a cardboard box that leave you feeling hungry is what you need for portion control. Positive eating is all about enjoyment and fulfillment.
Dieting Is Not Good For You
by Susan Patterson
Just the word diet is enough to make people cringe. It implies discipline, hard work, and change. But to most people, it also implies deprivation, which is why people who go on diets gain the weight back.
According to a study at UCLA, dieters do lose 5-10% of their weight in the first six months, but within five years up to 66% gain more than they lost, weighing an average of 11 pounds more than they did before dieting. In the opinion of researchers, these people are better off not dieting at all due to the wear and tear on their bodies from losing the weight and putting it back on. Obese people are even more at risk, with 83% regaining their weight after two years of going on a diet. Read the rest of this entry »
