Comfort eaters generally receive little sympathy. While most people understand anorexia or bulimia, the comfort eater merely seems greedy. In fact, comfort eating is a …
Eating Disorders
How to Help Someone With Bulimia
Knowing that someone you love struggles with bulimia is deeply upsetting. For many, it is also baffling. But bulimia can be a serious condition – …
How to Combat Emotional Eating
There are many reasons that we eat and a big part of losing weight is getting to the bottom of them and realising which are …
Pica Eating Disorder
Pica eating disorder is a disorder that is characterized by a persistent appetite for non-nutritive materials. That doesn’t mean junk foods, it means things that …
Study Reveals Basis for Emotional Eating
Many of us deal with breakups and bad days by soothing ourselves with a bar of chocolate and a pint of ice cream. These foods …
Dealing With Night Time Hunger
Being hungry in the night is a common problem and one that many of us deal with. Even if we have managed to be strict …
Recognizing Eating Disorders
Terms like “anorexia” and “bulimia” are thrown around pretty commonly, but few people actually know the extent of these disorders or the damage that they …
Stopping Emotional Eating
It is something that all of us have heard of, yet unfortunately there is no universal definition on emotional eating. Some people define emotional eating …
Bulimia Side Effects
Bulimia is an eating disorder characterized by the patient forcibly vomiting after eating, normally with the intention of losing weight, but other times for other …