Compulsive eating is an emotional problem, and we use an emotional approach to its solution.
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Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.
Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.
I don't understand anorexia; I'm too greedy to ever not eat... I just can't do it.
I can't deprive myself of things because then I obsess about it and end up eating.
Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.
Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure.
If we are going to change our diets, we first have to relearn the art of eating, which is a question of psychology as much as nutrition. We have to find a way to want to eat what's good for us.
In this business, there is an insane amount of pressure, spoken and unspoken, to be thin. If you look at some of the television shows, eating disorders become like a competitive thing.
You don't have to have an eating disorder to be happy or successful.
An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.