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Secrets From the Eating Lab
A provocative expose of the dieting industry from one of the nation’s leading researchers in self-control and the psychology of weight loss that offers proven strategies for sustainable weight loss. From her office in the University of Minnesota’s Health and Eating Lab, professor Traci Mann researches self-control and dieting. And what she has discovered is groundbreaking. Not only do diets not work; they often result in weight gain. Americans are losing the battle of the bulge because our bodies and brains are not hardwired to resist food—the very idea of it works against our biological imperative to survive. In Secrets From the Eating Lab, Mann challenges assumptions—including thos...
Handbook of Diversity Issues in Health Psychology
The field of health psychology has grown dramatically in the last decade, with exciting new developments in the study of how psychological and psychosocial processes contribute to risk for and disease sequelae for a variety of medical problems. In addition, the quality and effectiveness of many of our treatments, and health promotion and disease prevention efforts, have been significantly enhanced by the contributions of health psychologists (Taylor, 1995). Unfortunately, however, much of the theo rizing in health psychology and the empirical research that derives from it continue to reflect the mainstream bias of psychology and medicine, both of which have a primary focus on white, heterose...
How to Lose Weight Easily - and Free Yourself from Diets Forever
If you'd like to know how to lose weight easily, naturally, and in a way that works with your body rather than against it, then this is the book for you. It's about a healthy way to lose weight that is so much simpler than all of those complicated charts and calculations that you have to do when you engage in dieting. The author explores the ways in which diets not only make you fat but are also seriously bad for your health. This book exposes the myths that the Diet Industry perpetuates in order to keep people hooked on dieting. Simple solutions are offered so that attitudes towards food and eating can be easily changed. The focus is on an easy step by step approach, for which the author offers a simple 10-step action plan. This leaves the reader in control of their eating and losing weight in a way that is sustainable without the need to ban any specific foods. The author has over 14 years experience in helping people to lose weight.
Adultish
Discover the ultimate guide to taking on adulthood with body confidence. In a world where body satisfaction plummets during adolescence, and a global pandemic and social media frenzy have created extra pressure, Adultish is a survival kit for young adults. This all-inclusive book provides evidence-based information on everything from social media and sex to mental health and nutrition. Packed with valuable features like Q&As, myth-busting, real-life stories, and expert advice, it is a go-to source for discovering the importance of self-acceptance and embarking on a journey towards loving the skin you're in.
The Binge Cure
If you lose control over food and are tired of obsessing over every bite, you’re not weak or a failure; you’re just trapped in a negative coping strategy. Now, there’s a new way to beat Binge Eating Disorder. If you’re dealing with binge eating or have an unhappy, unhealthy relationship with food, know this: your behavior has nothing to do with willpower or control, and it’s not about food addiction. The Binge Cure will teach you exactly how to create permanent and sustainable change. Discover how to banish bingeing, stop emotional eating, and create a life of freedom, purpose, and joy. If you’ve been stuck in a continuous cycle of dieting and bingeing, don’t worry, there is ho...
The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Obesity
This volume summarizes the findings and insights of obesity-related research from the full range of social sciences including anthropology, economics, government, psychology, and sociology.
The Hormone Diet
Outlines a three-step program designed to correct hormonal imbalances for potential health benefits, explaining how to identify problem areas in order to address such challenges as weight gain, insomnia, and mood disorders.
Slimming Meals that Heal
Offers information on the relationship between inflammation, allergies, and weight gain, plus a five-step plan on how to boost metabolism and balance hormones for holistic weight balance, with over hundred and twenty gluten-free recipes. --Publishers description.
You Are Not a Fit Person
You Are Not A Fit Person is a statement of the difference between yourself and fit people. We all know fit people, they get up early to exercise, they are the first to leave the party and they look down their noses at our fast food choices. These people are nothing like us, yet we have lined up to get fitness advice from them. We don't need their routines to lose weight and get fit, you need your own. Routines that work with your lifestyle, routines that help you to finally allow exercise and better eating into your life. You don't need another 'new and fat busting' set of exercises for the gym, you need to find ways to embrace exercise. You don't need another 'Chick Pea and Tofu Omelette' recipe, you need to find ways to eat your steak and still be fit. That is what You Are Not A Fit Person is about. It is about finding solutions that will work for you in your lifestyle. It is a fitness book for us, the 'diet resistent'.
Pursuing Perfection
In Pursuing Perfection, authors Margo Maine and Joe Kelly explore the emotional, social and cultural factors behind the ongoing epidemic of disordered eating and body image despair in adult women at midlife and beyond. Written from a biopsychosocial and feminist perspective, Pursuing Perfection describes the many issues women encounter as they navigate a rapidly changing culture that promotes unhealthy standards for beauty and appearance. This updated and expanded edition (originally published as The Body Myth: Adult Women and the Pressure to Be Perfect) is a unique guide for anyone seeking practical tools and strategies for adult women looking to establish health and body acceptance.
