10 books on eating disorders, diets and self-esteem
Masha Vorslav
We are a little talked about books about nutrition, but this topic is certainly inexhaustible - the benefit of intelligible publications on it, too, a lot. Today we have selected 10 of them that explore different aspects of the relationship with food.
"When Food Is Love: Exploring The Relationship Between Eating And Intimacy"
Oprah called this book "life-changing." "When Food Is Love" Jenin Roth came out after her heartbreaking "Feeding the Hungry Heart" (about her below) and the volume with the all-explaining title "Breaking Free From Compulsive Eating". This time, Roth compared the dependence on diets and emotional overeating with the need for intimacy. As in all his books, the author turns to his own painful experience and consistently examines seemingly unrelated states: loneliness, fear of making mistakes, emotional hunger and others.
"Feeding the Hungry Heart: The Experience of Compulsive Eating"
In order not to go far, we will tell immediately about another book Mouth. "Feeding the Hungry Heart" anticipates the more capacious writings of the writer and deals closely with one problem - compulsive overeating (along with anorexia and bulimia, it is considered one of the most common eating disorders). The mouth itself suffered from it, then recovered and for two decades rethought its experience in order to publish a book that considers interaction with food at a much more intimate and complex level than we used to do.
"Food without rules"
Author Tamara Adler, chef of the Michelin-starred organic restaurant "Chez Panisse", talks about why we are so serious about food. Compared to the two previous works, her “Food without rules” looks like an exceptionally practical collection of life hacking and advice from a seasoned, but the main motive of the book fits perfectly into the topic of our review: in order for something to work out, you first need to relax.
"The Self-Compassion Diet: A Step-By-Step Program to Lose Weight with Loving-Kindness"
Another evidence that nutritional problems are not caused by laziness alone or unwillingness to bring the body into shape. The psychotherapist Jean Fain insists that positive psychological changes must anticipate all physical ones. The book contains more than thirty different-sized ways that will help improve self-esteem and at a comfortable pace to achieve the desired weight by you (and not by others and media).
"Healthy food"
Equally self-confident and in his development, than the main gluten-rival David Perlmatter, biochemist Colin Campbell argues that we can avoid many diseases if we eat whole plant foods. The nutrition system promoted by him (the whole vegetable diet, or the MDG) implies not only a choice in favor of an apple, but not cookies, but also a selectivity to the quality of the products. Campbell tells how the season, storage conditions, the location of the fruit on the tree affects its properties, and hence the health of the person who eats it.
"50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food"
Dr. Susan Albers also specializes in food; several of her books view the problem from different angles. In this, she brings nearly fifty healthy methods that will help relieve stress and overcome negative emotions as well as a liter can of chocolate ice cream. However, the most important knowledge that can be learned from "50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food" is how to distinguish between physical and psychological hunger and not succumb to the second.
"Now I eat everything I want! David Yana Power System"
The founder of ABBYY, David Yang, recognized the general fatigue of prohibitions and restrictions even in such a personal matter as food, and built his methodology on its opposite - the possibility is what you want when you want. Naturally, not everything is so simple: Jan asserts that there are four types of products that - it just so happened - bring us the most pleasure, but it is they that create harmful eating habits. On the pages of the entrepreneur explains how to overcome the craving for them, and shares his (great) experience in this matter.
"But I Deserve This Chocolate !: The Fifty Most Common Diet-Derailing Exit and Outwit Theme"
We are sure that the name of many has been stabbed to the heart: the attitude to food as a fair reward is familiar to almost everyone. Despite the fact that chocolate eaten in bed will not make anyone fatter at one time, the attitude to food as a source of positive emotions is fraught with various food problems (gastro journalists, you did not read this). The author has scored as many as 50 of these patterns and explains how to avoid gourmands who want to maintain emotional balance.
"Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think"
Not a pioneer, but a worthy author in the cohort of those who develop the idea of conscious nutrition, Brian Oonsink argues — or rather, tells — everything from the opposite, that is, unconscious nourishment. We think about food 20 times more often than we notice it, and at first glance non-obvious factors influence our micro-solutions: opinion of others, names, packaging, lighting in the store, and much more - what Oonsink tells.
"Women Food and God:An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything "
Jenin Roth is sure: what and how we eat says everything about what kind of people we are, and our relationship with food reflects what we think about love, change and anger. This book is probably the least practical of the compilation - in the sense that it does not give precise advice on how to make life better, but requires dedication and patience from the reader - only with them can one understand what the hell is the craving for fast food linked to theology.