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Crave: Why You Binge Eat and How to Stop |  | Authors: Cynthia M. Bulik Ph.D., Cynthia M. Bulik Ph.D.
Publisher: Walker & Company
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 19258
Media: Paperback
Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0802717101
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8526
EAN: 9780802717108
ASIN: 0802717101
Publication Date: March 3, 2009
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A renowned expert on binge eating, the director of the Eating Disorders Program at the University of North Carolina, shares proven techniques for conquering food cravings. Clinical psychologist Cynthia M. Bulik, specially trained in psychiatric genetics, is a leading authority on eating disorders such as binge eating disorder (BED). For twenty years she and other researchers have tracked thousands of people, and have found that BED runs in families. I n 2000, Bulik was one of a group of researchers who studied eight thousand sets of twins in a Norwegian registry to learn more about how genes contribute to binge eating disorder. T hey found an astonishingly high heritability of 47 percent. Binge eating disorder is less well known than anorexia or bulimia nervosa but is more prevalent. Health professionals estimate that more than five million American women and three million men suffer from BED. Jane Brody revealed in the New York Times that when she was twenty-three years old, her food binges were so extreme that “many mornings I awakened to find partly chewed food still in my mouth.” Genetic predisposition, brain chemistry, psychology, and cultural pressures increase a person’s susceptibility to BED, but bingeing is not inevitable. Crave helps readers understand why they crave specific foods, recognize what triggers their strong urges, and get control over their responses to those triggers. BED is highly treatable; Bulik shares with readers a set of easy-to-implement “curb the crave” techniques that has empowered patients at the U NC Eating Disorders Program and elsewhere to triumph over their binge eating. T hrough the stories of some of these patients—men and women, young and old—and with the guidance of Bulik, readers will develop effective strategies to successfully conquer their cravings and establish healthy eating and activity habits.
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 Crave: Why You Binge Eat and How to Stop March 6, 2010
Jennifer L. Young
Explains binge eating disorder clearly and how to overcome. Excellent book! Highly recommended.
 Disappointed January 7, 2010
On this Journey of Life (Europe)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is great if you're into cognitive behavior therapy. Otherwise it doesn't seem to touch the deeper issues of eating disorders. Didn't finish the book, and never will.
Informative quick read... August 27, 2009
Carrie Bradshaw (Kansas City, MO USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book tackles binge eating as an actual eating disorder and not a behavioral choice. Nonetheless, there are tips included for how to manage consumption and ultimately create a healthier relationship with food.
No "How to Stop" Miracles Despite Claim on Cover August 23, 2009
Amazon Woman (Los Angeles, CA United States)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The book was mildly interesting but as another reviewer said, there's nothing new here. Eat breakfast, exercise, control yourself... yeah, we've heard that before. What I thought I was going to get was good solid evidence of genetic predisposition to ravenous over eating. The author says, yes, it's part genetic, but offers no insight beyond that confirmation -- no insight into the biological chain of events that cause the "crave", which is what I'd hoped for when the cover boasted "Why You Binge Eat". Also, there is no "How to Stop" advised beyond the very disappointing comment: "What I encourage is that you take control of your own sweet-stat; put it on manual and shelter yourself from the seduction of increasing sweetification." That's all very nice but that's like telling a heroin addict to "take control" of their addiction in the same manner, just "put it on manual". How exactly is that done? Especially when your brain is screaming for a hit? Other than this weak plea to "take control" there really is no "how to stop" offered in the book. How is that different than being told you need more "will power"?
There are some OK tidbits of information in this book: interesting facts about sweet drinks (but we've already heard that our Starbucks lattes are bad for us too) encouragement to accept the genes you're born with and another plea to "overcome your allergy to exercise". But what about those who do exercise regularly and still binge? Not everyone is "allergic" to exercise. Again, as another reviewer said, this is the same advice given in diet books, healthy living books and hundreds of women's magazines. I was just hoping for a bit more. I was hoping for the content promised on the cover.
Any general health collection will find this a user-friendly approach August 20, 2009
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If comfort food is getting uncomfortable and binge eating is thwarting diet plans, then CRAVE is for you. Binge eating is a psychological disorder, and clinical psychologist Cynthia Bulik explore its link to genetics and brain chemistry as well as cultural and social issues. Most important - she offers some keys to stopping the binge cycle. Any general health collection will find this a user-friendly approach.
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