Compulsive Eating On The Rise

CBC News HealthWatch

(AP) Grabbing a handful of cookies off the plate, stealing a roommate's food, overeating while home alone. These could be signs of compulsive overeating.

The fixation in the United States on weight is only making the disorder more prevalent, experts say. The number of support groups for people whose lives are controlled by food has grown sharply in recent years.

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Compulsive Eating On The Rise

CBSNews

(AP) Grabbing a handful of cookies off the plate, stealing a roommate's food, overeating while home alone. These could be signs of compulsive overeating.

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How do you distinguish between someone who overeats sometimes and an overeater?

Binge Eating And Compulsive Overeating

EHF

Difference Between Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating: The Overeating disorders (Including Compulsive Overeating, and Binge Eating) are where my downfall resides. I can talk with clinical objectivity about Anorexia and Bulimia because I don't suffer from them. I can't be objective when it comes to overeating because I suffer here, and have failed to get it completely under control. Even Diabetes didn't stop me...I just decreased by 60 pounds what my acceptable overweight condition would be and then, when I dropped below it by a substantial amount, would overeat until I got to that weight again. This disorder is an obsession with overeating. Typically, we either chronically overeat or periodically binge from some emotional trigger. The chronic overeating is an addiction (compulsion) to food, like any other addiction.

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How to Identify Compulsive Overeating in Your Loved One Read more: How to Identify Compulsive Overeating in Your Loved One | eHow.com http://www.ehow

Health

Characterized by not being able to stop eating, compulsive overeating usually results in weight gain. Food is a way of coping with emotions, conflicts, stress and daily problems for compulsive overeaters.

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Compulsive Overeating - An Emotional Malady Affecting the Heath

Eating Disorder Channel

Compulsive overeating is an eating disorder characterized by an “addiction to food”. A person suffering from compulsive disorder engages in recurrent episodes of uncontrolled eating. Just like with any other dependence, compulsive overeaters eat too much but do not purge, which usually leads them to become overweight.

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Should compulsive overeating be treated like any other type of addiction?

Twelve Steps

Overeaters Anonymous

The Twelve Steps are the heart of the OA recovery program. They offer a new way of life that enables the compulsive eater to live without the need for excess food.

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Eating Disorders - Compulsive Overeating

by Dolores Hempstead and Jennifer Orleans, PhD
Psybersquare

If I were addicted to nicotine, I would flush my cigarettes down the toilet. If I were an alcoholic, I would have to stop drinking. What I am is a compulsive overeater. But how do I stop eating?

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The obesity epidemic: the role of addiction

1. Valerie H. Taylor, MD PhD,
2. Claire M. Curtis, MA,
3. Caroline Davis, PhD

Obesity is a global health problem, and those affected require treatment by multidisciplinary treatment teams, including specialists from mental health, medicine and even surgery. Although the cause of obesity is multifaceted, it is clear that chronic overconsumption plays a fundamental role.

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Centers for Overcoming Overeating

National Center for Overcoming Overeating
(New York City Office)

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Free yourself from out-of-control emotional eating and weight obsession and everything else becomes possible!

A Weigh Out: an end to the hopeless cycle of emotional eating and desperate dieting

A Weigh Out, and its founding organization Acoria Eating Disorder Treatment, have been working with emotional, compulsive, and binge eating issues since 1993. Founder Ellen Shuman is the Vice President of the Binge Eating Disorder Association and Co-Chair of the Academy for Eating Disorders Special Interest Group on “Health at Every Size“.

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What’s the #1 Obstacle to Quitting Overeating For Good?

Isabelle Tierney

What you get when you sign up:
My *FREE* ebook holds your hand through the biggest roadblock to ending your overeating.

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The obesity epidemic: the role of addictionhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

1. Valerie H. Taylor, MD PhD,
2. Claire M. Curtis, MA,
3. Caroline Davis, PhD

Obesity is a global health problem, and those affected require treatment by multidisciplinary treatment teams, including specialists from mental health, medicine and even surgery. Although the cause of obesity is multifaceted, it is clear that chronic overconsumption plays a fundamental role. When this type of overeating becomes compulsive and out of control, it is often classified as a “food addiction,” a label that has caused much clinical and scientific controversy.

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Facts: Compulsive Overeating

YouthNoise
By MindAndBody

What is compulsive overeating?
Compulsive overeating, or binge eating disorder, is a serious condition that is characterized by uncontrolled eating, followed by feelings of guilt and depression. Often, a compulsive overeater associates food with comfort and uses it to soothe stress or emotional distress. It may cause a person to continue eating even after (s)he becomes full and can result in serious health problems.

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Weightless

Confessions of Compulsive Eating: Recovery, Resources & Food, Part 2

By Margarita Tartakovsky, MS

Here’s part two of my interview with love2eatinpa, who writes the must-read blog Confessions of a Recovering Compulsive Eater. Below, she shares what led to her recovery from compulsive eating, how she marks the milestones, her current perspective on food, how she opened up to her daughter about her eating disorder and much more.

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Food Addiction

Weight Loss Center

Although there is no one single cause for developing an eating disorder, in a society that promotes thinness as the way to health, wealth and happiness is it any wonder that people (men, women and children) perhaps without a strong sense of who they are, living with the standards and expectations of others, turn for comfort and some measure of control to the closest thing at hand. And that is food.

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Should diet programs be publicized as much as they are? Or should we diminish the advertisement in that area and try to improve ED rates?

Twelfth Step Within

Overeaters Anonymous

The Twelfth-Step-Within Committee was created to reach out to those in the Fellowship who still suffer and to address the relapse and recovery of our members. The committee’s purpose is to strengthen Overeaters Anonymous by sharing information and ideas that generate recovery within the Fellowship.

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Understanding Compulsive Eating

Healthy Place America's Mental Health Channel
Written by Judy Lightstone, MFT

Binge eating disorder, or BED follows predictable patterns. Compulsive overeating patterns can be understood by following the diet/binge cycles described below on this page. You may stay in one cycle or mover repetitively back and forth between the two, alternating periods of compulsive overeating with periods of compulsive restriction, or you may never restrict, although the wish to do so is part of what drives the binging.

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Compulsive Overeating Treatment

Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment

Unsurprisingly, when a woman suffers with compulsive overeating, treatment providers often focus too narrowly on her eating behaviors or on managing health problems associated with being overweight.

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