“Like the alcoholic who loses control after the first drink, these people can’t stop at just one cookie,” according to Harvard researcher Dr. James Hudson, lead author of a new study on binge eating disorder as a familial disorder. The study of 300 overweight people and 900 of their family members revealed that a person is twice as likely to binge eat if he or she has a relative who also has the disorder.
A 2-year longitudinal study shows that men and women taking the experimental weight-loss drug rimonabant lost weight and kept it off. However, specialists warn that medication use should be minimized when lifestyle changes can achieve the same purpose.
As new figures show that mental ill-health is costing the UK almost £100 billion a year, evidence released today by the Mental Health Foundation and Sustain reveals that changes to the human diet in the last fifty years or so could be an important factor behind the major rise of mental ill-health in the UK.
Clinical psychologist and recovering anorectic Lucy Daniels offers a psychoanalytic perspective on the treatment of anorexia nervosa and raises concerns about the pitfalls of ineffective treatment.
It doesn’t take much to make a man feel satisfied with his body: a look in the mirror and a sense of well-being seem sufficient. For women, however, changes in body image need to be supported by hard, physical evidence. The results follow up on an earlier study suggesting that mirrors can make women feel worse about working out.
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