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REAL-News --March-2020Dec 16

December 16, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

Is Overeating/Obesity an Addiction?

When the originally-named Eating Disorders Coalition of Tennessee (EDCT) was founded in the early 2000’s by Dr. Ovidio Bermudez of Vanderbilt University (at that time; now with the Eating Recovery Center of Denver, CO), Reba Sloan, R.D., now-deceased Karen Silien, psychologist, and Nan Allison, R.D., among others, its stated mission was to create awareness andRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: addiction, addictive behavior, eating disorders, obesity, overeating, overweight

Fit-Happens --Winter-2024Oct 17

October 17, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

Bingeing at Night: A Hormonal Habit?

A recent article in the NY Times reviewed a scientific article in the December issue of the  International Journal of Obesity that reinforced what many fitness and wellness professionals suspected: that nighttime binge eating may be more than habitual; it may be hormonal. The article suggested that obese people who binge eat – not all do, one mightRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: body fat, dieting, eating disorders, lose weight, obesity, weight loss

Life-Changes:-Diet-for- LivingMar 23

March 23, 2018 By Irv Rubenstein

Deflection Points: When Behavioral Eating Can Be Fatal!!!

How’s that for a headline? Grabs your attention, don’t it? But that’s how mass media, especially on line media, operates: it tries to grab eyeballs. Even researchers do so by titling their articles accordingly – either catchy, kitschy or catastrophically. But if you read them carefully, you will often see the big clue that it’sRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: childhood obesity, deflection point, diet, eating disorders, higher risk of obesity, obesity

FIT-Happens - -Winter- 20251Feb 12

February 12, 2018 By Irv Rubenstein

Does Looking at Thin Make You Feel Fat?

The Super Bowl is over – Fly EAGLES Fly! – but the effects of all those unhealthy snacks and drinks may last for a few more days or weeks. So it is with us Americans  – we tend to live between holidays in a state of regret and shame. To make matters worse, we positionRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: diet, dieting, eating disorders, fitness, health, obesity

The-Real-Fake-News:-Processed-Food-Is-'Healthy'Oct 02

October 2, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

Part 2: Sane Weight Loss: The 2/3 Diet

In Part 1 of this two part series, I discussed the two articles on dieting and my experience speaking with professionals who help those with eating disorders resume/restore a healthy/healthier relationship with food…and exercise. I wrote about how difficult it is to lose weight for those who are overweight, and how challenging it is for eatingRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: anorexia, bulimia, childhood obesity, diet, dieting, eating disorders, fitness, resistance training, Weight loss vs Exercise gain

Eating Disorders May Arise from Parental Comments about WeightAug 08

August 8, 2016 By Irv Rubenstein

Eating Disorders May Arise from Parental Comments about Weight

A NYT article came out recently summarizing a study of 500 women and their experiences as young girls when it came to weight and parental comments about it (the link to the article is embedded):  Parents Should Avoid Comments on a Child’s Weight     Then, in a running and fitness newsletter, one of theRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: childhood obesity, eating disorders, obese, parental comments about weight, weight loss

REAL-News --February-20241Sep 10

September 10, 2013 By Irv Rubenstein

on wt loss, eating disorders and reality

How presumptuous is it for anyone to declare ‘reality’ in the context of weight loss and eating disorders (ED)? Well, let me answer by sharing my philosophy first, my reasoning second, and reality third. Philosophically, it seems to me that the basic laws of physics are currently immutable. That is, the old saw – caloriesRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: eating disorders, medicine, sugar, weight loss

Feb 08, 2011

February 8, 2011 By Irv Rubenstein

Real Costs of Obesity

This chart, from the McKinsey Quarterly, a free, on-line business resource, demonstrates the real and devastating costs of obesity in america. as the article points out, these costs are rising world-wide: http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/newsletters/chartfocus/2011_01.htm I have written much on obesity, some to the dismay of my colleagues with the EDCT. nonetheless, since each person’s weight issue isRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: addiction, diet, eating disorders, obesity

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