Author: James A. BenderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Body image
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Think-thin, Think-fat: a Concept of Body Image and Its Effects on Weight Loss
Author: James A. BenderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Body image
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Think Thin
Author: Valerie WellsPublisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN: 9780811800891
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
How you look in your mind is how you'll look in the mirror. With this simple premise, Valerie Wells offers 30 easy, effective visualizations designed to facilitate anyone's diet and exercise efforts by replacing fat self-images with healthier, more positive visions of the body.
Weight Management
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309089964
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
The primary purpose of fitness and body composition standards in the U.S. Armed Forces has always been to select individuals best suited to the physical demands of military service, based on the assumption that proper body weight and composition supports good health, physical fitness, and appropriate military appearance. The current epidemic of overweight and obesity in the United States affects the military services. The pool of available recruits is reduced because of failure to meet body composition standards for entry into the services and a high percentage of individuals exceeding military weight-for-height standards at the time of entry into the service leave the military before completing their term of enlistment. To aid in developing strategies for prevention and remediation of overweight in military personnel, the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command requested the Committee on Military Nutrition Research to review the scientific evidence for: factors that influence body weight, optimal components of a weight loss and weight maintenance program, and the role of gender, age, and ethnicity in weight management.
Think Thin, Be Thin
Author: Doris Wild HelmeringPublisher: Harmony
ISBN: 0767920260
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
If you’ve been struggling with your weight, you know how hard it can be to lose those extra pounds and keep them off. In the groundbreaking Think Thin, Be Thin, nationally prominent psychotherapist Doris Wild Helmering and award-winning health writer Dianne Hales assert that the true key to a healthy body weight is a healthy attitude toward food and exercise. Their logic is simple: Your brain ultimately controls what you eat and whether you work out. If you change the way you think, you can change the way you behave. And you can lose weight. Using proven psychological strategies and scientifically based exercises, you will learn how to harness your thoughts to transform your behavior, body, and life. With practical advice on such troublesome issues as curbing emotional eating, motivating yourself to exercise, and overcoming diet plateaus, this book is the ideal complement to any diet and weight-loss program.
Why Diets Make Us Fat
Author: Sandra AamodtPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698186664
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
“If diets worked, we'd all be thin by now. Instead, we have enlisted hundreds of millions of people into a war we can't win." What’s the secret to losing weight? If you’re like most of us, you’ve tried cutting calories, sipping weird smoothies, avoiding fats, and swapping out sugar for Splenda. The real secret is that all of those things are likely to make you weigh more in a few years, not less. In fact, a good predictor of who will gain weight is who says they plan to lose some. Last year, 108 million Americans went on diets, to the applause of doctors, family, and friends. But long-term studies of dieters consistently find that they’re more likely to end up gaining weight in the next two to fifteen years than people who don’t diet. Neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt spent three decades in her own punishing cycle of starving and regaining before turning her scientific eye to the research on weight and health. What she found defies the conventional wisdom about dieting: ·Telling children that they’re overweight makes them more likely to gain weight over the next few years. Weight shaming has the same effect on adults. ·The calories you absorb from a slice of pizza depend on your genes and on your gut bacteria. So does the number of calories you’re burning right now. ·Most people who lose a lot of weight suffer from obsessive thoughts, binge eating, depression, and anxiety. They also burn less energy and find eating much more rewarding than it was before they lost weight. ·Fighting against your body’s set point—a central tenet of most diet plans—is exhausting, psychologically damaging, and ultimately counterproductive. If dieting makes us fat, what should we do instead to stay healthy and reduce the risks of diabetes, heart disease, and other obesity-related conditions? With clarity and candor, Aamodt makes a spirited case for abandoning diets in favor of behaviors that will truly improve and extend our lives.
Obesity
Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9241208945
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
This report issues a call for urgent action to combat the growing epidemic of obesity, which now affects developing and industrialized countries alike. Adopting a public health approach, the report responds to both the enormity of health problems associated with obesity and the notorious difficulty of treating this complex, multifactorial disease. With these problems in mind, the report aims to help policy-makers introduce strategies for prevention and management that have the greatest chance of success. The importance of prevention as the most sensible strategy in developing countries, where obesity coexists with undernutrition, is repeatedly emphasized. Recommended lines of action, which reflect the consensus reached by 25 leading authorities, are based on a critical review of current scientific knowledge about the causes of obesity in both individuals and populations. While all causes are considered, major attention is given to behavioural and societal changes that have increased the energy density of diets, overwhelmed sophisticated regulatory systems that control appetite and maintain energy balance, and reduced physical activity. Specific topics discussed range from the importance of fat content in the food supply as a cause of population-wide obesity, through misconceptions about obesity held by both the medical profession and the public, to strategies for dealing with the alarming prevalence of obesity in children. "... the volume is clearly written, and carries a wealth of summary information that is likely to be invaluable for anyone interested in the public health aspects of obesity and fatness, be they students, practitioner or researcher." - Journal of Biosocial Science
Fat Talk
Author: Mimi NichterPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674041542
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Teen-aged girls hate their bodies and diet obsessively, or so we hear. News stories and reports of survey research often claim that as many as three girls in five are on a diet at any given time, and they grimly suggest that many are “at risk” for eating disorders. But how much can we believe these frightening stories? What do teenagers mean when they say they are dieting? Anthropologist Mimi Nichter spent three years interviewing middle school and high school girls—lower-middle to middle class, white, black, and Latina—about their feelings concerning appearance, their eating habits, and dieting. In Fat Talk, she tells us what the girls told her, and explores the influence of peers, family, and the media on girls’ sense of self. Letting girls speak for themselves, she gives us the human side of survey statistics. Most of the white girls in her study disliked something about their bodies and knew all too well that they did not look like the envied, hated “perfect girl.” But they did not diet so much as talk about dieting. Nichter wryly argues—in fact some of the girls as much as tell her—that “fat talk” is a kind of social ritual among friends, a way of being, or creating solidarity. It allows the girls to show that they are concerned about their weight, but it lessens the urgency to do anything about it, other than diet from breakfast to lunch. Nichter concludes that if anything, girls are watching their weight and what they eat, as well as trying to get some exercise and eat “healthfully” in a way that sounds much less disturbing than stories about the epidemic of eating disorders among American girls. Black girls, Nichter learned, escape the weight obsession and the “fat talk” that is so pervasive among white girls. The African-American girls she talked with were much more satisfied with their bodies than were the white girls. For them, beauty was a matter of projecting attitude (“’tude”) and moving with confidence and style. Fat Talk takes the reader into the lives of girls as daughters, providing insights into how parents talk to their teenagers about their changing bodies. The black girls admired their mothers’ strength; the white girls described their mothers’ own “fat talk,” their fathers’ uncomfortable teasing, and the way they and their mothers sometimes dieted together to escape the family “curse”—flabby thighs, ample hips. Moving beyond negative stereotypes of mother–daughter relationships, Nichter sensitively examines the issues and struggles that mothers face in bringing up their daughters, particularly in relation to body image, and considers how they can help their daughters move beyond rigid and stereotyped images of ideal beauty.
The Skinny on Fat
Author: M. Sara RosenthalPublisher:
ISBN: 9780771075735
Category : Body image
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Before you think about starting a diet, read this book. As a medical and health writer with her doctorate in bioethics, Sara Rosenthal is disturbed by some of the assumptions and misunderstandings promoted by our society’s obsession with avoiding fat. In a culture that assigns moral values to being “fat” or “thin,” eating disorders, depression, and in some cases malnutrition are more common, as people struggle to achieve an unrealistic ideal. InThe Skinny on Fat, Sara Rosenthal does some plain talking about body image, fat phobia, anorexia, and bulimia, as well as the other side of malnutrition – overnourishment. She takes a down-to-earth look at the most popular diets of the moment and discusses how they work (or don’t), what their critics say, and what effects they can have on your health. She also outlines prescription and over-the-counter weight-loss drugs and the myriad of chemicals – such as fat replacers and artificial sweeteners – that we ingest daily in order to avoid fat and sugar. Finally, she turns to recommendations for a healthy, balanced diet. Informed, straight-forward, and accessible, this is a book everyone should read before they start a diet.
Think Yourself Thin
Author: Frank Joe BrunoPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780064650243
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Think Yourself Thin
Author: Debbie JohnsonPublisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9780786862221
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A motivational, step-by-step guide shows dieters how to use the power of their subconscious mind to control their eating and exercise habits, transforming their fantasies of having the perfect body into reality.