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Diets explained has moved!
Hey everyone,
I have recently decided to transfer the content of my fitness site (http://fitnessmadesimple.wordpress.com) and my diet/nutrition site (https://dietsexplained.wordpress.com/) to my new blog:
Health Habits
I was getting a lot of questions on topics other than diet and fitness training. With a more general health blog, I can focus on topics not specifically exercise or diet.
I hope everyone enjoys
DR
Filed under exercise, fitness, health, weight loss
Canada: A Nation of Short, Fat Liars
According to Statistics Canada, Canadians are not as tall or thin as they think say they are.
This has caused Stats Can much consternation.
The data that Stats Can collects through it’s Canadian Community Health Survey and the National Population Health Survey rely on Canadians to provide their height and weight.
In 2005, 16% of Canadians were classified as obese; according to their self reported info.
But according to actual measurements, 8% of Canadians are not only fat, but big fat liars to boot.
Oh My God!
What could happen next?
Do you think Canadians lie about their age?
Their income?
Their penis size?
The Horror…..
Filed under diet
How to beat Emotional Eating
Are you an Emotional Eater?
Do your feelings drive your appetite and your eating behavior?
Do you eat when you are not hungry?
Do you continue to eat when you are full?…stuffed?…about to explode?
Do you ever find yourself on the couch with your hand at the bottom of a LARGE bag of chips?
Do you eat like this while you are alone?
When you are bored?
When you are stressed?
To take your mind off of your problems?
Do you feel guilty about this behavior?
YES
Then you are an Emotional Eater.
You’re not alone.
Janet Jackson and Britney Spears are celebrity examples of Emotional Eaters
So What Do I Do?
If you think that your manner of eating may constitute a threat to your health, please contact your doctor.
And here is some solid reference info:
- Wikipedia lists 25 different types of eating disorders
- Medscape has a good Eating Disorder Resource Centre
- The Canadian National Eating Disorder Information Centre (NEDIC) has lots of info & resources
- The Mayo Clinic
What Do I Do Right Now?!
One tool you should look into right away is Mindful Eating.
Here are some links to mindful eating sites. TCME CAMP System Dr.Susan Albers Amazon book list
In the past few years, the practice of mindful eating has grown out of the more generalized psychiatric practice of Mindfulness Meditation, made popular by Jon Kabat-Zinn.
It finds it’s origin in Buddhist teachings. The Buddhist practice of Mindfulness can be defined as “awareness of one’s thoughts, actions or motivations”.
A similar practice is currently being espoused by Oprah’s protege, Mr. Eckhart Tolle.
TLC’s – I Can Make You Thin with Paul McKenna employed mindful eating in it’s weight loss plan.
In the 1920’s, Horace Fletcher was the diet guru of the day with his theory of Fletcherizing.
Mindful Eating – The Basics
Eat consciously. By this I mean:
- Take a bite of food
- Put down your implements/sandwich/glass/etc…
- Chew your food
- Taste your food
- Enjoy your food
- Repeat until you ‘think’ you are starting to feel full
- Stop Eating
- Eat again when you are hungry – not bored or nervous – listen for a ‘grumbly tummy’
That’s It.
Filed under Diet - General, health, In the News
Fat-o-Phobia
We have officially gone crazy.
In Japan, employers are forcing their employees to eat fish sausages, participate in a “lifestyle reform programs,” and attend boot camps designed to reduce the incidence of metabolic disease or metabo.
Not to be upstaged, the Japanese government has introduced compulsory ‘fat checks‘ for people over 40 years of age.
It’s not just the Japanese that are panicky about obesity.
This article in The Independent brought my attention to all of the medical classifications we now have for obesity and supposedly aberrant eating behaviors.
We all know about bulimia and anorexia.
But did you know about:
- drunkorexia – substituting meals with alcohol
- orthorexia – obsessive healthy eating
- bigorexia – men bingeing on protein for more muscle mass
- Lipophobia – avoidance of fats in food
- Wannarexia – a label applied to someone who claims to have anorexia nervosa, or wishes they did.
- Selective Eating Disorder – avoiding the consumption of certain foods.
- Binge Eating Disorder – eating too much and feeling guilty about it
and my personal favorite
- Rumination – Like a cow, ‘bringing up’ partially digested food and then spitting it out or digesting it.
How about:
- Cibophobia, Sitophobia — aversion to food, synonymous to Anorexia nervosa
- Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic disorder — a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect.
Maybe, for simplicity’s sake, we could lump all of these conditions together under one banner:
- Obesophobia – a persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of gaining weight
I am not for one second suggesting that people have legitimate mental & physical issues concerning food and their bodies.
But, why oh why, does every human peculiarity have to become a syndrome or a condition?
Why do we have to be afraid of everything?
Filed under health, In the News
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