Diets “work”… Until They Don’t Any radical change with eating or exercise will result in weight loss – for a while. Radical changes can be anything from cutting calories to clean eating to eliminating carbs to drinking shakes to taking supplements to hormone injections to body boot camps to commercial diet [...]
What is stress? Stress is the mental and/or physical tension or strain the body experiences in response to events happening in a person's life. Stress affects our internal organs, like the heart and stomach, and impedes our mental state, emotional reactions, relationships and spirituality. Medical problems, such as heart disease, are stressful in many ways: [...]
One of the most challenging aspects of eating disorders treatment and recovery is dealing with body image. A big reason for this is that the body image expectations depicted in every form of media give the clear message that NO body is acceptable the way it is. So, if the average person without an eating [...]
“Orthorexia Nervosa” is an obsession with eating the “right” foods or the “healthiest” food for the purpose of optimal health. It begins with an enthusiastic interest in following a stringent dietary practice, such as vegetarianism or raw food veganism. It is not that these diets cause orthorexia. Rather, when these practices are taken to extremes, [...]
The body and mind are inevitably linked and the profound influence of one on the other is becoming much more accepted in the medical and lay communities. An unhealthy body can cause emotional disturbances just as psychiatric conditions can trigger or exacerbate diseases within the body. The stomach, liver and thyroid are organs and, so [...]
We’ve all known someone who is extremely impatient, driven and who conducts business on the cell phone while rushing to her kid’s soccer game that started 30 minutes ago. While often hurrying herself and others, too busy for chit-chat and overly committed, she still looks successful and we wonder “how does she do it?” Maybe [...]
Seven years after Congress passed the landmark law banning discrimination in the treatment of mentally ill people, many families and their advocates complain it stubbornly persists, largely because insurers are subverting the law in subtle ways and the government is not aggressivley enforcing it. http://medcitynews.com/2015/08/despite-mental-health-parity-law-gaps-compliance-enforcement-remain/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=ddfee6d83d-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-ddfee6d83d-67836105
There have been many advances in neuroimaging when it comes to understanding our brains and the correlation to our emotions throughout the years. But new research published in the journal PLOS biology has identified a "brain signature" that can actually predict the intensity of negative emotional responses to evocative images in individuals by looking at [...]
One of the Affordable Care Act's key protections was to cap how much consumers can be required to pay out of pocket for medical care each year. Now some employers say the administration is unfairly changing the rules that determine how those limits are applied, and they're worried it will cost them more. http://medcitynews.com/2015/08/aca-price-cap-on-consumer-medical-care-costs/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=f0a3f1bf7f-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-f0a3f1bf7f-67836105
A smartphone application has been developed that allows patients to input information about their daily symptoms, almost like a digital diary, and then share that with their psychiatrist for more effective treatment. http://medcitynews.com/2015/08/mental-healthcare-could-be-more-productive-with-the-help-of-a-smartphone-app-that-serves-as-a-real-time-diary/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=f0a3f1bf7f-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-f0a3f1bf7f-67836105
