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Why You Binge Eat And How To Stop
Walker & Company
March 2009
On Sale: March 3, 2009
272 pages ISBN: 0802717101 EAN: 9780802717108 Paperback
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Self-Help Health
A renowned expert on binge eating, the director of
the Eating Disorders Program at the University of North
Carolina, shares proven techniques for conquering food
cravings. Clinical psychologist Cynthia M. Bulik,
specially trained in psychiatric genetics, is a leading
authority on eating disorders such as binge eating disorder
(BED). For twenty years she and other researchers have
tracked thousands of people, and have found that BED runs in
families. I n 2000, Bulik was one of a group of researchers
who studied eight thousand sets of twins in a Norwegian
registry to learn more about how genes contribute to binge
eating disorder. T hey found an astonishingly high
heritability of 47 percent. Binge eating disorder is less
well known than anorexia or bulimia nervosa but is more
prevalent. Health professionals estimate that more than five
million American women and three million men suffer from
BED. Jane Brody revealed in the New York Times that
when she was twenty-three years old, her food binges were so
extreme that “many mornings I awakened to find partly chewed
food still in my mouth.” Genetic predisposition,
brain chemistry, psychology, and cultural pressures increase
a person’s susceptibility to BED, but bingeing is not
inevitable. Crave helps readers understand why they
crave specific foods, recognize what triggers their strong
urges, and get control over their responses to those
triggers. BED is highly treatable; Bulik shares with readers
a set of easy-to-implement “curb the crave” techniques that
has empowered patients at the U NC Eating Disorders Program
and elsewhere to triumph over their binge eating. T hrough
the stories of some of these patients—men and women, young
and old—and with the guidance of Bulik, readers will develop
effective strategies to successfully conquer their cravings
and establish healthy eating and activity habits.
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