Belly Up

Posted on January 19, 2011 by lkaholistichealth

While driving in Southern California last week, I could not help but notice scads of billboards promoting lap band surgery as a remedy for overweight. The subliminal message on these billboards was that lap-band surgery was acceptable as a method of attaining the slim body image many have been hopelessly striving to achieve.  The billboards [...]

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Avoidance of Hunger

Posted on June 23, 2009 by lkaholistichealth

Hunger is a potent fear for many.  It is a scary fact that  many people snack all day long in order to avoid getting hungry.   And what will happen if we allow hunger to arrive? We would be ravenous and eat anything that was not nailed down.  We would eat our best friend’s first child. [...]

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Diet Mentality

Posted on June 22, 2009 by lkaholistichealth

What do I mean by “diet mentality?”  Of course, “being on a diet” means you are in diet mentality.  But many people who don’t think of themselves as “being on a diet” are also in diet mentality.  It occurs when you are eating in a prescribed way, usually involving the monitoring of food intake by [...]

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Hunger and Satiety

Posted on June 19, 2009 by lkaholistichealth

Eat when you are hungry.  Stop when you are satisfied.  Sounds pretty simple, right?  It should be simple but as it turns out, it’s not.  We all have the ability to do this naturally and as toddlers, we do.  Toddlers know when they want to eat and also know when they’ve had enough.  It is [...]

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Stop Dieting NOW

Posted on June 18, 2009 by lkaholistichealth

Eating should be a joyful activity.  We do it, hopefully three times each day, to keep our bodies running.  However, diet mentality is so pervasive in our society that eating has become a painful activity fraught with psychological, emotional, and cultural implications.  We deprive ourselves, fret over food choices, and punish ourselves regularly for not [...]

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