By: Rob
Let me suggest, Overeaters Anonymous: http://www.oa.org/ It works for me. One day at a time.
View ArticleBy: V G Ettinger
As a physician dealing with Diabetes and other consequences of obesity, it is obvious that people are fatter now than 20 years ago. We don’t have completely hard data but the suggestions are there that...
View ArticleBy: Sylvia
Ads implying that a food product “low in fat” means it isn’t fattening are just plain misleading. While fat content is relevant to health, it’s carbohydrates that put on the pounds. Leaning too far in...
View ArticleBy: Peggy Holloway
Sugar seems to be quite addictive. Read Gary Taubes’s new book “Why we get fat and what to do about it” for the science behind this theory.
View ArticleBy: me
Anyone who thinks foods can’t be addictive has obviously never struggled with overeating. I’m normal weight now but have lost about 50 pounds from what I weighed five years ago and there are still some...
View ArticleBy: Chelsea
One commenter mentioned how the foods we’re meant to digest like meats, fruit, vegetables etc, they never binge on. I can attest the exact opposite. I often binge eat so-called healthy foods. This...
View ArticleBy: Colleen
@James: I completely agree. We can’t make changes unless we want to regardless of the circumstances or to what someone is “addicted.” We are “treating” ourselves to care either way. I’ve heard it said...
View ArticleBy: sandie
i agree wholeheartedly with this article! i come from a long line (both maternal and paternal) of alcoholics. addiction is most definitely a genetic predisposition….i have a brother who struggled with...
View ArticleBy: Sue Keller
If addiction is a disease of the mind and spirit – then, of course, one can be addicted to anything. If _______ [fill in the blank] causes problems in functioning in your daily life, that’s an...
View ArticleBy: Reeva Miller
Some people with undiagnosed celiac disease may have intense cravings for foods containing wheat. Curious that no one’s mentioned this in the comments thus far, though many have talked about cravings...
View ArticleBy: John Rezmerski
Addiction–just another of the many ways of moralizing about obesity: obese people eat too much, or make bad food choices, or fail to exercise enough or in the right way, keep their thermostats too...
View ArticleBy: IgnoranceKills
# 4 Hanna: “This article ignores the fact that there could merely be a correlation, not a causal relationship between alcoholism in the family and obesity. I would be interested to know whether the...
View ArticleBy: jgmurphy
Here in Chicago some enterprising soul recently did a study which correlated the average rate of obesity in certain neighborhoods with the median real estate value of the homes in each neighborhood....
View ArticleBy: remo
The solution to the obesity problem is right in front of us. Look at how much time it took to create some of these Patricia Cornwell novels. Well, I guss it’s time for a Starbucks, sugar-foam latte!
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And: offering to help a stepdaughter freeze her eggs, a hostess balks at accepting a gift, and a housekeeper helps herself to the makeup stash.
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He thought he had left his father’s machismo behind. But when it came time to propose, he didn’t think he was man enough to be anyone’s husband.
View ArticleFinding My Father, Preserved on Canvas
His art collection, with its movement and irreverence for boundaries, took him places he could no longer travel.
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