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If you’re following this blog and wondering if you are a binge eater or not, here are a few binge eating facts. Everyone overeats from time to time, but binge eating is more than overeating. It’s eating out of control as a compulsive behavior and it doesn’t just happen on special occasions. Here are some binge eating facts to help you determine whether or not your eating qualifies as binge eating in relation to the compulsive behavior that has been recognized as an eating disorder. In most cases people with this disorder are overweight or obese:

Binge Eating Facts
No control over eating
Eat in secret even when not hungry
Feel shame and guilt for their binging
May hide food
“Grazing” continuously and never feeling satisfied
Eat when stressed
Eat when feeling uncertain
Unable to control how much you’re eating
Experiment with a multitude of diets
I don’t know about you but I see myself in more than one of these. In fact, I see myself in ALL of them! Tomorrow we’ll take a look at self help for binge eating. That’s right. There is hope!
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If you suffer from binge eating, you’ve convinced yourself to stop hundreds of time only to find yourself binging again. What’s the answer? There are methods of self help for binge eating that can make a difference.
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With all kinds of information and misinformation out there, I went on the hunt for facts on artificial sweeteners. These sweeteners are tasting more and more like sugar, but are they good for me?
I have a friend who is allergic to most artificial sweeteners, and another friend whose daughter experienced seizures as a side effect of consuming an artificial sweetener on a regular basis in her beverages. By the time the girl was three, she wore a helmet to protect her head because of the regularity and severity of her seizures. It took some time to figure out that the artificial sweetener was the culprit. With that in mind, and my desire to lose weight, I went on the search for facts on artificial sweeteners and have come up with more questions. For one, are some artificial sweeteners safer than others?

This week I’ll delve into the different types of artificial sweeteners and even take a look to see if they can actually contribute to weight gain. That’s what I heard. Can you imagine! We’ll also take a look at dangers and side effects and how the results of earlier studies on saccharin have been overturned. The new studies claim that it is safe for us…in fact out of the five FDA approved non-nutritive sweeteners saccharin is often picked as the safest! And what about new sweeteners like Truvia?

With so many questions rattling around my brain, I figured there might be a slew of others out there wondering the same things. I’d love to hear what you all think. If you have any facts on artificial sweeteners that you’d like to share, please take a moment a leave a comment.
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I heard that there’s a link between artificial sweeteners and weight gain. Can that be true?
We know that to lose weight we have to take in less calories than we burn, and non-caloric artificial sweeteners help, right? After all, if we eat low-calorie foods we can lose weight without counting calories, right? I know, I’m stirring up more questions instead of looking at the link between artificial sweeteners and weight gain. But the questions are worth asking because there is a link.

Research has shown that rats fed yogurt sweetened with glucose (15 calories per teaspoon) ate less calories overall than rats who were fed yogurt sweetened with saccharin. The second group of rats actually gained more weight and body fat. Researchers concluded that no-calorie artificial sweeteners make it more difficult for people to control their eating and their weight! Yikes!

Before I say more, I know there is a place for artificial sweeteners. In a recent study published in the International Journal of Obesity, artificial sweeteners were shown to work in helping people keep weight off–people on a low-calorie diet. People who know how many calories they are taking in and sticking to a plan.

If you’re not one to count calories, I can’t put it any better than Dr. David Katz when he told Oprah, “My particular concern is that artificial sweeteners are 200 to 13,000 times as sweet as sugar, and that is a potent stimulus for turning a sweet tooth into a fang.”

The key seems to be moderation. If you’re going to use artificial sweeteners, then do so reasonably, because the sweetness makes our bodies think there will be calories coming and when the food doesn’t deliver, the body looks for more calories. Before you know it, you’re eating those calories. This is the link between artificial sweeteners and weight gain. It is real.
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Why do so many people choose to take a pill designed to control cholesterol, when we can lower cholesterol naturally?
Granted, some people genetically have higher cholesterol levels and in those cases medication is warranted to help bring those numbers down. However, most of us who have high cholesterol because of what we eat and lack of activity. Yep, it comes back to eating a healthy, balanced diet and regular exercise.

A couple of years ago some friends and I took advantage of an opportunity when our community offered to run some medical tests at no charge. Out of seven of us, two learned that their corroded arteries were 50 percent blocked. One woman and one man. The woman’s doctor told her that wasn’t all that unusual for someone her age (in her mid 50s) and they’d keep an eye on it. The man in his early 40’s had a doctor who wanted to put him on a pill to lower his cholesterol. The man asked if he could try changing his diet first. He ate low fat, lost weight and exercised. Within a year the artery showed no signs of blockage and his cholesterol had dropped to healthy levels. This really stuck with me. The woman who ignored her blockage has since had a heart attack at age 62.

When we lower cholesterol naturally we avoid possible side effects and harmful drug interactions. In rare cases side effects can lead to liver failure, kidney failure and even death. For me I have a real life example when I look at my two friends. Both had high cholesterol—one still does and is now on medication. The other goes for a walk 3-5 days a week. Which kind of medicine do I want to take? I’ll try the natural way first. Statins are a great backup plan.
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