Stress is everywhere in our lives today. The digital age has us moving at the speed of light with our bodies trying desperately to keep up. Growing up, I hardly remember hearing about stress. In fact, women were thought to have it so easy that for decades we were not even considered to be at [...]
Why is it so hard for women to lose weight, and so easy to gain “emotional weight”? Well, it has a lot to do with hormones. And sleep. If you don’t get enough sleep, you will have a problem with two very important hormores: Leptin and Ghrelin. Leptin makes you feel satisfied. It’s the shutoff [...]
Stress is what gets a food addict going. Plain and simple. That’s what emotional eating is all about. That’s how you get hooked. That’s how you get fat. Getting fat makes you more stressed and so you eat as a coping mechanism. The stress gets worse as you lie to yourself about how much better [...]
I read a great article this week by Mark Bittman, author of the Minimalist food column in the New York Times. The article, A Food Manifesto, appeared in my hometown newspaper, The St. Petersburg Times. Mr. Bittman offered some suggestions that would, as he put it, “make the growing, preparation and consumption of food healthier, [...]
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