Anatomy of a Food Addiction The Brain Chemistry of Overeating

by Katherine, M.A., Anne

• ISBN13: 9780936077130
• ISBN10: 0936077131
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-12-19
• Publisher: Gurze Designs & Books

Summary

If you have struggled with compulsive eating, dieting, and the guilt and conflict they bring, your life will be changed by this important, life-affirming, and astonishingly wise book. Anne Katherine, a Certified Eating Disorders Therapist and former compulsive eater, explains the chemical reactions in the brain that work in conjunction with lifelong emotional conflicts to make foodparticularly sugar and refined carbohydratessuch a comfort that it's almost like a drug. Once you realize that your binge eating is a physical disease that can be treated, you can use the book's self-tests, exercises, examination of family issues, and complete recovery program for newfound understanding and confidence.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Addiction Is an Illness	p. 11
Chemical Warfare	p. 21
Deprivation	p. 48
The Great Escape	p. 70
Nature's Telegrams	p. 81
How Healing Happens	p. 95
Achieving Abstinence	p. 108
Help!	p. 131
Dear Beloved	p. 137
Fat Prejudice	p. 151
Anorexia and Bulimia	p. 155
Timing, Choices, and Hitting Bottom	p. 169
Relapse	p. 174
Further Abstinence	p. 187
Wait!	p. 200
Fullness	p. 223
Notes	p. 229
Sources of Help	p. 232
Index	p. 233
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