Sorry for the lack of posts. I’ve recently been thru a bit of upheaval re the day job, and have my mid-terms for my nutrition program in a little over a week. Yikes!
A couple of quick nuggets. First, thanks to commenter mem over on Stephan’s site for the link to the Obesity and Food Addiction Summit. I’ve checked out most of the archived videos and will be doing a longer post soon. But in the meantime, I definitely recommend checking out Mark Gold’s Food as an Addiction and Elissa Epel’s Cravings and chronic stress. Some really fascinating stuff!
Re stress, I came across this point to Danielle Kershaw’s inner bombshell. According to Psychology Today:
One of [Kershaw’s] most exciting concepts was sensuality as stress management. …
Any time that you’re stressed, she emphasized, you can choose to engage momentarily in something deliberately sensual and take yourself into a calmer, more relaxed state. This is very similar to the concept of mindfulness yet much more yummy, I love it!
Me too! Elissa Epel’s presentation points out just how intertwined stress and overeating are. Learning good strategies for dealing with it is clearly essential to both health and weight loss.
Weight Maven is written by Beth Mazur. Beth believes that obesity is more symptom than cause and that the real problem is our modern culture -- especially diet. Beth writes about ancestral health, health policy, & mindfulness. And cats! 
