• Top 10 healthy eating tips - a guideline to plan your health

    The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, first published in 1980, provides science based advice to promote health and to reduce risk for chronic diseases through diet and physical activity. We tell you what’s in the most recent guidelines in a short synopsis.

     
  • Is binge eating (disorder) a food addiction?

    66% of American adults are overweight or obese, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Bingeing is an extreme behavior related to food…but is it an addiction? We explore this taboo subject, and take a look at diagnostic limitations of bingeing here.

     
  • How are eating disorders related to food addiction?

    In this short post, we identify the two distinct eating disorder types (anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa) and relate them to the physical, psychological and spiritual underpinnings of any addiction.