“As an Eating Disorder Professional, I know that many of my clients that are in treatment for Anorexia, Bulimia, Bulimarexia, Binge Eating Disorder or Obesity are overwhelmed by all the information in the news about our health. In hopes of relieving some of the stress this can inflict on both my patients and readers, I’ve highlighted some of the weekly health news that was of particular interest to all of us at The Norton Center for Eating Disorders and Obesity. From my eating disorder and obesity treatment center in Cincinnati, here is your weekly news update for the week of July 27th-August 2nd, 2015.

NEWS: Heal Your Relationship with Food and Your Body

I am sitting here at my highest weight in a long time, truly comfortable with who I am and what I look like. Two years ago – even one year ago – I would have considered myself ‘fat’ at my current weight. Now, I don’t. I’ve gotten used to my belly roll and cellulite. I can look in the mirror – without averting my eyes – and say ‘I love you’ and ‘You’re beautiful’ to the woman I see in the mirror. LEARN MORE

NEWS: Eating Disorders Symptoms

Would you notice eating disorders symptoms in someone you love? Would you be able to recognize the development of an eating disorder in yourself? Unfortunately, some signs of eating disorders are not very obvious and you may not recognize them if you don’t know what to look for. Furthermore, eating disorders can look many different ways in different people, and can change over time, even in the same person. While people with eating disorders typically experience a number of symptoms; they might not have all the possible symptoms. LEARN MORE

NEWS: Binge Eating Facts

One of the binge eating facts that many people do not know is that binge eating is a completely separate eating disorder from bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa, although many of the causes of binge eating are the same as the aforementioned eating disorders. While bulimia and anorexia symptoms will eventually come to light, it takes a bit longer to recognize a binge eating disorder. LEARN MORE

NEWS: Proposed Nutrition Label Upgrade IDs Added Sugar

Sayonara sneaky sugars. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing an upgrade to the Nutrition Facts label to make it even easier to avoid added sugar. Not only are they proposing to add a Nutrition Facts line for added sugars, they now say they want food companies to declare the percentage daily value for these added sugars. LEARN MORE

NEWS: High-Fructose Corn Syrup Increases Risk of Heart Failure

The sugar fructose — formerly embraced by the food industry as a supposedly safer alternative to glucose — appears to cause molecular changes in the body that promote uncontrolled heart growth and increase the risk of heart failure, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and published in the journal Nature. LEARN MORE

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