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Health Benefits of Friendships

How to Nurture Friendships “Lying, thinking / Last night / How to find my soul a home / Where water is not thirsty / And bread loaf is not stone / I came up with one thing / And I don’t believe I’m wrong / That nobody, / But nobody / Can make it out

Surprising New Findings about Wearable Exercise Trackers & Teens

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health Hippocrates Exercise has wide ranging ...

What NOT to ask around the holiday table…. and what to say instead

The holidays are often a time for gathering with people we don’t see much during the year– distant relatives, neighbors, and friends of the family that by chance or by choice are not part of ...

Meditation: Tune into Your Recovery Thoughts, Quiet the Eating Disorder

If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there’s room to hear more ...

Eating Disorders and Vaping: What’s the Link?

Vaping is very much on the rise in adolescents and adults. (1) While early research shows that e-cigarettes are less dangerous to health than traditional cigarettes, there is no published data yet on ...

When exercise crosses the line from healthy to harmful

Exercise is, undoubtedly, a generally healthy enterprise and many people embark on new exercise routines at this time of year. While most people are striving to meet the Department of Health’s ...

Stuck in Eating Disorder Behaviors? Dare Greatly & Reach Out

Most of us love to share fun times, joys and pleasures with the people we hold most dear. Those euphoric moments can bond us together and create happy memories. In the sweetness of friendship let ...

Why does binge eating usually happen at night? And what can you do about it?

For people with binge eating disorder (BED), nighttime is an especially high risk period for experiencing a binge episode (1). New research published in the International Journal of Obesity (2) sheds ...

Helping Someone with an Eating Disorder? …Follow the Research

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. Dalai Lama It can extremely scary, overwhelming and frustrating to provide assistance to a ...

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