Recent articles and research on weight management:
You are
getting thinner, you are getting thinner.... (excerpts)
by Jean Fain (Harvard Medical
School) in O (The Oprah Magazine), August
2004
"Close your eyes. Imagine
your food cravings floating away. Imagine a day of eating only what's
good for you. Imagine hypnosis actually helping you lose weight --
because the news is: It does.
"When I tell people how I make
much of my living -- as a psychotherapist hypnotizing people slim -- they
inevitably ask: Does it work? My answer usually brightens their eyes
with something between excitement and incredulity.
"Most people, including my
colleagues at Harvard Medical School, where I teach hypnosis, don't realize
that adding trance to your weight loss efforts can help you lose more weight
and keep it off longer.
"Hypnosis predates carb and
calorie counting by a few centuries, but this age-old attention-focusing
technique has yet to be embraced wholeheartedly as an effective weight loss
strategy.
"Until recently, there has been
scant scientific evidence to support the legitimate claims of respected
hypnotherapists, and a glut of pie-in-the-sky promises from their problem
cousins, stage hypnotists, hasn't helped.
"Even after a persuasive
mid-nineties reanalysis of 18 hypnotic studies showed that psychotherapy
clients who learned self-hypnosis lost twice as much weight as those who
didn't (and, in one study, kept it off two years after treatment ended),
hypnotherapy has remained a well-kept weight loss secret.
"Unless hypnosis has happily
compelled you or someone you know to buy a new, smaller wardrobe, it may be
hard to believe that this mind-over-body approach could help you get a
handle on eating.
"See is believing. So see
for yourself."
Is Major
Depressive Disorder or Dysthymia More Strongly Associated with Bulimia
Nervosa?"
Perez, Joiner & Lewinshon, Florida State University and
Oregon Research Institute
Excerpts from the International Journal of Eating Disorders, July 2004
vol. 36 no. 1
"Analyses revealed that
dysthymia was a stronger correlate with bulimia than major depression [in
937 adolescents], even while controlling for other mood disorders and a
history of depression and dysthymia.
"The presence of dysthymia
in adolescence might be possible risk factor for the development of
bulimia nervosa."
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