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Weight Loss Questionnaire

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Food, Weight and Body

Stop Hating Your Imperfect Body

The Social Stigma of Obesity

Dying to be thin

Losing Pounds or Your Money?

Weight Loss: Check the Facts

Weight Loss: Looking For The Magic Pill

Cut the Fat

Is Beauty The Beast?

How Do You Define Overweight?

Holiday Weight Gain?

Federal Weight Loss Recommendations

New guidelines help those trying to lose weight do so sensibly.

In June of 1998, the first Federal guidelines regarding diagnosis and treatment of obesity were released by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in cooperation from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). Experts reviewed the scientific literature on obesity and overweight and came up with several weight loss recommendations.

What are Eating Disorders?

Eating disorders are primarily of psychological origin even though they involve medical and physical complications. These disorders affect men and women of all ages, but are especially present in young women. Abnormal eating patterns may include self-starvation, compulsive eating, or compulsive eating and self-induced purging. Simple starvation leads to anorexia nervosa; compulsive eating to binge eating disorder and obesity; and purging to bulimia nervosa.

Risk Factors for Eating Disorders

What causes eating disorders? Know the risk factors associated with their development.

What are the risk factors for developing eating disorders? This is a difficult question that researchers continue to try and answer. There is no one thing that predicts whether someone will submit to the bondage of these disorders. What we do know is that the causes are multiple, interactive and complex. No one factor stands alone. Keeping that in mind and knowing we don’t have definitive answers, here are some of the risk factors thought to lead to the predisposition and development of an eating disorder.

Helpful Facts About Eating Disorders

Did you know eating disorders are a public health problem in the U.S., Canada and other western nations? How many women and girls are affected by bulimia? Who recovers from these disorders? These and many other questions can be answered by checking out these eating disorder facts.

If you struggle with anorexia or bulimia, read on:

Signs and Symptoms of Anorexia

Signs and Symptoms of Bulimia

The Power of Denial

Confronting Anorexia Denial

Male eating disorders

The Shame of Bulimia

A New Danger

Signs of Compulsive Overeating

Ask Dr. Linda: Why do I Overeat?

It's Not Just About Food!

Rethinking Very- Low-Calorie-Diets

Tips to Break the Overeating Habit

Self-Control God’s Way

Choosing an Eating Disorders Therapist

Know When to Act with an Eating Disorder

Eating Disorder Treatment

Eating Disorders: Outpatient Treatment

Eating Disorders: When To Hospitalize

PROGRAMS:
Mercy Ministries of America
Help for troubled girls (eating disorders program)
http://www.mercyministries.com

Remuda Ranch
Help for eating disorders
http://www.remuda-ranch.com

Canopy Cove (A residential day program for Eating Disorders)
http://www.canopycove.com

Selah House
http://www.selahhouse.net

BOOKS:

MAKING PEACE WITH YOUR THIGHS by Linda Mintle, Ph.D.
Making Peace With Your Thighs--Amazon Books

OVERWEIGHT KIDS BY Linda Mintle, Ph.D.
Overweight Kids

LOSE IT FOR LIFE by Stephen Arterburn, M.E. and Linda Mintle, Ph.D.
Lose It For Life

Getting Unstuck by Linda S. Mintle, Ph.D.
Getting Unstuck-Amazon Books

Breaking Free from Compulsive Overeating by Linda S. Mintle, Ph.D.
Compulsive Overeating

Breaking Free from Anorexia and Bulimia by Linda S. Mintle, Ph.D.
Anorexia and Bulimia