| (Published: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 04:00:34 -0500) |
| New Annual World Beyond Dieting Week |
A campaigning weight-control charity has launched a World Beyond Dieting Week to focus attention on what it says are the often-ignored real reasons for eating, overweight and self-image crises.
Its researchers are asking all long-term dieters and everyone who is overly weight-obsessed t |
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| (Published: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 02:47:21 -0500) |
| Dieting More of a Problem Than a Solution? |
Many more people than previously acknowledged may be living lives divorced from a happy and healthy relationship with food and eating.
Long-term dieters are like drug addicts - their next go is definitely going to be their last but somehow it never is.
Increasing amounts o |
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| (Published: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:50:47 -0500) |
| Digesting The Often Unpalatable History Of Dieting |
When it comes to selling diets, it's always “new”, always “revolutionary” and it is always “the diet to end all diets.”
But let's take a close look at the history of dieting because, as that great American man of letters George Santayana said, “ |
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| (Published: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 07:37:53 -0500) |
| Dangers of Making Too Big a Meal of Eating Disorders? |
Whilst eating disorders are undoubtedly unpleasant and quite often life threatening, pushing too many problem eaters and hardcore dieters towards definitive eating disorder status may be causing harm. Is there a problematic eating disorders bandwagon on the roll?
Problem eaters and die |
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| (Published: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 03:56:12 -0500) |
| No More Meal Stealing, End Fat Diets! - Demand Dieting Researchers |
Dieting experts launch campaign against meal stealing. Don't steal our meals say diet researchers.
When people try to work out why diets almost inevitably fail other than in the short-term, they usually concentrate on the biological fact that the body will rebound with stored weight af |
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| (Published: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:53:06 -0500) |
| Weight Control – It's All In Your Mind Not Your Mouth |
No area of human addictions is so badly served or exploited as that relating to food, eating and dieting.
The very same substances that form the food and eating addictions are being repackaged and represented as the possible cure – a proposition utterly ridiculous as soon as one s |
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| (Published: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:14:03 -0600) |
| Dieting – The Blame Game Intensifies |
When no-one knows what's going on, or where to look for answers and when the panic begins to set it - that's when the witch hunts begin.
It's starting to get nastier as we journey through yet another year amid claims of an ever expanding obesity problem, yet still with no serious answer |
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| (Published: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:19:24 -0600) |
| Weight Loss Is About Filling Your Soul With Good Things |
There has been much debate recently over the ethics of various Christian groups who have been making weight loss and weight control the focus of their evangelistic mission.
These various bodies for Christ movements claim with varying degrees of moral dogmatism that slimness is next to God |
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| (Published: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:54:52 -0500) |
| Reduce Your Fat Footprint |
One in six of the UK's children is now clinically obese screams the latest shocking weight-related headline – the US passed this threshold some time ago.
But it is not the raw numbers that should be causing the most alarm but rather the manner in which they are presented.
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| (Published: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:15:14 -0500) |
| Is Dieting A New Kind Of Slavery? |
For something that is meant to offer freedom and happiness, dieting sure has a habit of making prisoners of startling numbers of people.
With it now being 200 years since the abolition of slavery in Britain, a move which strangled the great wave of Afro-American stolen people into the N |
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| (Published: Mon, 21 May 2007 11:43:54 -0500) |
| Having The Medics Involved Is Not Always Best |
Shocking statistics released in the UK show that during 2006 doctors made over 31 million prescriptions of anti-depressant pills.
The exact number of patients this equates to can only be guesstimated but is reckoned to run into the several million. Similar generalizations from the US i |
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| (Published: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:37:24 -0500) |
| Tough Love Approach Keeps Fad Dieting Going |
Increasing numbers of waiting list patients are now being forced to slim before being allowed to have routine operations on the British National Health Service.
A newspaper investigation claims that the localised policy is now to be rolled out nationally by the end of 2007.
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