NCFED IN THE NEWS
Thursday, October 19, 2006
 When Healthy Eating is an Illness
Are you a healthy eater? Is it good for you or has it become an unhealthy obsession? Does your concern about your health reflect a deeper anxiety about your weight and wellbeing. If so, you could be suffering from Orthorexia. Please follow the link below for more details.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2006/oct/10/food.healthandwellbeing
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Do You Have an Eating Disorder?
Take Our Test .... Deanne Jade has created a quick and simple quiz for Net Doctor to determine whether you have an eating disorder. If you have problems with food, you may deal with them quickly and effectively via our help programme, or try telephone and personal counselling with a practitioner trained to listen to you and how to take things forward. You deserve a relaxed and healthy relationship with food.
Do the quiz by clicking on the link below.
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/interactive/interactivetests/eatingdisorder.php
July 10, 2006
 Posh Spice and her weight
Posh Spice is said to have a 23 inch waist. Deanne comments on why some people strive to be so thin, and can we make sense of their claims that they eat "like a pig". Deanne suggests that their claims defy physics and human biology. To read more please click on the link below and you may read the full article and some comments from people who have followed the story.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-394612/Health-fears-Victoria-reveals-23-inch-waist.html#StartComments
The Cult of Anorexia
Deanne Jade offers an opinion about pro anorexia web sites in the Daily Mail. On the one hand she recognises that they have a part to play in helping people with anorexia to find friendship and support, but on the other hand she describes many of these sites as a pornography of eating disorders. To find out more, follow the link below
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-393037/The-cult-anorexia.html
Monday, March 20, 2006
Food - Friend or Enemy? - Psychologies Magazine
Why do we have such a complex relationship with food? When we look at a chocolate muffin, or a bowl of pasta, what do we really see? Pleasure? Temptation? Or the enemy? Either way, it's rarely just food. Our relationship with food is complex, tied to deep emotions and experiences. For many of us, fear of food is inextricably linked to unhappiness about our body image, but at the same time our most intimate feelings and relationships are expressed in the way we eat. When our relationship with food is out of control, it becomes a measure of our success or failure. But it doesnt have to be this way. Understanding the emotional roots of our attitude to food can help shed light on our eating patterns and attitudes. Eating disorder expert Deanne Jade explains how eating becomes a focus for negative feelings about ourselves.
If you are hungry for comfort, consider speaking to one of our expert therapists. We can help you to overcome emotional overeating. Book an assessment online or call us on 0845 838 2040.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
 How Good is your Body Image?
How Good Is Your Body Image? Go to this website to take a short test compiled by Deanne Jade, principal of The National Centre of Eating Disorders, to see what your body image is like. http://www2.netdoctor.co.uk/testyourself/facts/body_image.asp
If you think that you need help for the way you feel about your body, and if horrible feelings about your body are ruling your life, consider seeking help from one of our counsellors at www.eating-disorders.org.uk.
Friday, December 02, 2005
 Comments on Diet Books - Guardian
So which is the right diet for you? Books are flooding the shops for the post-Christmas slimmers' fever. Twice every year Britain's quest for the secret of eternal slenderness becomes frenzied, and the publishing world has the perfect cynical moniker for both occasions: the 'pre-bikini fever' of summer and the 'sexy Santa-lure' of December. Already the pile of diet books published to tempt those eager to squeeze into little black dresses this Christmas are flying off the shelves: 17 of the present top 20 bestselling health titles are diet books, while at least 25 new ones are expected in the next four months.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,1646678,00.html
Friday, September 02, 2005
 Are we emotionally what we eat? - BBC News Online
Negative emotions can send us rushing to the biscuit tin or hiding our horrors in a tub of ice-cream - with up to 43% of people using food to alter their mood, according to a survey by the Priory Clinic. Others binge and vomit or develop anorexia as a way of trying to gain some sort of control over runaway feelings. BBC News Online spoke to the experts to try to find out why so many of us have this up and down relationship with what, on its most fundamental level, is just a means of fuelling our bodies. According to Deanne Jade, principle of the National Centre for Eating Disorders, our complex relationship with food starts right back in the cradle. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3592058.stm
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
 The Desperate Housewives Syndrome
The press is running several articles on a reported increase in anorexia among women in their thirties and forties. Anorexia is traditionally associated with young teenage girls, but clinics and doctors are discovering more cases of anorexia among boys, men and older women. Deanne asks, "is this a real phenomenon, are more older women really falling victim to the "starving sickness". Or is this simply a reflection of the fact that more older women are admitting to their problems with food?"
Deanne says "I have treated women of all ages for eating disorders for many years. Some older women are simply experiencing a return of a previous episode of their eating disorder. This can be triggered by the loss of a relationship, a life crisis or an episode of depression. On the other hand we may be seeing the result of women growing older with a condition that started in their teens".
There are pressures on both women and men to stay young and beautiful, for women this means being slim and for men, being toned and strong. Perhaps our culture is to blame, relationships are more transient, more women are single, it becomes more rare to stay married for life, people feel they have to always be one step ahead of the competition. Does this mean an increase in eating disorders among women who presumably "should" be relaxing into their roles, raising their children and growing older graacefully? We cannot say for sure, but it certainly adds to the stress, anxiety and the self doubt of the lives of countless women who feel that no matter what they do and no matter who they are, they are failures if they cannot be perfect.
For help with an eating problem consider speaking to one of our expert therapists. We can help you to overcome emotional overeating. Book an assessment online or call us on 0845 838 2040 .
 Dangers of pro-anorexia websites - BBC News
People who set up pro-anorexia websites which dissuade sufferers from seeking help should be sued, according to a group which helps people overcome eating disorders. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3580182.stm
A feast for the mind - Times Online
Can you turn a bitter experience into something sweet? Her great-grandmother Lilla’s recipe for survival in a Japanese concentration camp gave Frances Osborne food for thought
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8126-1254590,00.html
 Child 'overeaters' become bulimic - BBC News
Bulimics had overeaten and were overweight as children. Children who are overweight and eat too much risk the binge eating disorder bulimia as adults, say psychiatrists. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3672378.stm
Eating Disorders - The Times Online
About one student in five has a "severely flawed relationship with food", according to the National Centre for Eating Disorders.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17329-1288108,00.html
 Omming on empty - The Guardian
The popularity of yoga is on the rise in Britain, but with its emphasis on 'lightness' and perfectionism, is this holistic exercise responsible for a new eating disorder? Rachel Shabi investigates yogarexia.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,1425223,00.html
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