Could you benefit from an improved relationship with food and body image? Learn the three D’s to improved body image.
How Do I Know When I’m Hungry?
Oftentimes food cravings caused by emotions are confused as physical hunger cues. Food is tangled with many emotions in our culture such as boredom, celebration, pleasure, reward, etc. Read more to learn the difference.
Victoria Secret Model Challenges the “Ideal Beauty” (You Go Girl)
To girls aspiring to attain the ideal beauty, model Cameron Russell urges them to aim higher. She equates her success in the world of modeling to winning the genetic lottery — it’s unattainable for most and hardly a reasonable goal.
What Kind of Relationship Do You Have With Food?
Nearly 20 million women and 10 million men will suffer from an eating disorder in their lifetime. Learn the signs and symptoms of several different types of eating disorders.
Eating Disorder Awareness Week: Everybody Knows Somebody
It’s no secret that we live in a diet-obsessed and beauty-crazed society. Just turn on the TV and count the seconds before you catch an ad for the latest weight-loss fad or seductive images of a bikini-clad model biting into a fast-food chain’s hamburger. Many women and men are feeling the pressure to achieve society’s narrow definitions of “beauty.” Fighting our body’s natural weight and size may begin as an innocuous effort to increase body satisfaction yet can quickly unravel to a serious and potentially life-threatening illness. Nearly 20 million women and 10 million men will suffer from an eating disorder in their lifetime. For tips on how to improve body image, read Dr. Long’s blog: Three D’s to Improved Body … Read More