Understanding Food Addiction
Food, like chemical substances, can be addicting. Many people use food as a comfort when feeling down, depressed, anxious, stressed or angry. Foods high in sugar, salt, starch and fat are the most addictive and can trigger the brain with “feel-good” chemicals, similarly to heroin or cocaine. When food addicts experience pleasure from feel-good chemicals, […]
Orthorexia Nervosa: Is Your Diet Too Healthy?
Orthorexia is an eating disorder characterized by an obsessive focus on eating healthy foods. In a nation with too many overweight and obese people, orthorexia can simply look like healthy eating to an outside observer. The problem is that orthorexics are so restrictive in their healthy food habits that they refuse to eat anything they […]
Do you know someone who is eating themselves to death?
When we see someone clutching their chest, we don’t hesitate to call 911 to get them professional help. Why are we so hesitant to get professional help when we know someone is poisoning themselves with food? The signs of obesity are just as obvious as a heart attack and the consequences are just as fatal. […]
Tennie on Dr. Oz to Discuss the Dangers of Laxative Abuse
Tennie appeared on The Dr. Oz Show yesterday to share her story of abusing laxatives which is becoming a trend among women in order to lose weight. Click below to watch… If you are interested in learning more about this growing trend, visit The Doctor Oz website to read Tennie’s article on Eating Disorders and Laxative…
Understanding Night Eating
Night Eating Syndrome has recently gained increased attention, as doctors are recognizing its connection to obesity. Night Eating Syndrome (NES) is a type of food addiction defined by an unusual eating pattern in which an individual gets more than half of their daily caloric intake after 8pm. An individual suffering from NES will eat a […]
Shades of Hope to be featured on ABC’s Nightline
Wednesday, September 7th ABC 10|9 C Back in April of this year, Yale University released a ground breaking study on Sugar Addiction. What did the study conclude? That yes, one can in fact be addicted to sugar. Ashley Gearhardt, is a clinical psychology doctoral student from the Yale & Rudd Center for Policy and Obesity. […]
Lifestyle Intervention guest pass giveaway
Come and be a guest of Shades of Hope! Do you live in the Las Vegas area? Join us at the Four Seasons! Fit-RX and The Change Institute are introducing the first national conference on Obesity, Intervention and Treatment. Shades of Hope will be there, and we want you to join us! WWW.LIFESTYLEINTERVENTION.ORG Hello friends! […]
Dr. Oz: The FLAB card, what’s in your wallet?
F-L-A-B (Frustrated – Lonely – Anxious – Bored) Yesterday on ‘The Dr. Oz Show’ the famed health guru and friend of Oprah asked TV land, “Are you addicted to food?”. “Why yes, yes I am”, I replied back emphatically. The focus of the show was on three women who thought, but he knew, they were addicted […]
Watch Tennie McCarty on ‘Ruby’ Season Finale
Did you miss last night’s season finale of Ruby? Don’t fret! Reruns of the final episode will be playing all week on the Style Network. Tennie helps the women in Ruby’s group unleash their anger to get rid of the pain from their past. Ruby: The Thinner Child(season finale) – show times: May 2nd (Sunday): […]
Confessions of a FFK (Former Fat Kid)
” I’m no diet guru, and this isn’t a diet book, but if I escaped more than a decade above 300 pounds, lots of others can find relief too.” – Michael Prager I don’t know about you, but I’m way behind on my self selected reading list and journals to thumb during my morning routine. Behind […]