Show 1099: How to Recognize and Overcome Eating Disorders (Archive)
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
What could be more natural than eating when you are hungry and stopping when you are full? That simple approach is far from easy for many people. Hunger and eating get disconnected in eating disorders. How can these complex problems be recognized and treated?
How Common Are Eating Disorders?
Many people think of anorexia nervosa as the classic eating disorder. But while anorexia is potentially deadly, it is the least common. The most common eating disorder? Binge eating, in which the person feels out of control. Tendencies towards these problems can set in surprisingly early, affecting young children as well as teens.
Growing older does not confer immunity to eating disorders. Middle-aged people and even geriatric patients may develop difficulties matching what they eat to what their bodies need. Such eating problems have both metabolic and psychiatric dimensions.
What Can Be Done to Combat Eating Disorders?
Current treatments involve the entire family or both members of a couple. The idea is to develop a unified strategy to re-nourish the child, if the patient is a child. Developing good support and coping strategies that work at the moment of high-risk stress is essential in treating adults.
This Week’s Guest:
Cynthia M. Bulik, PhD, FAED, is Distinguished Professor of Eating Disorders in the Department of Psychiatry and Professor of Nutrition at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She holds the first endowed professorship in eating disorders in the United States and is founding director of the UNC Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders. In the photo, Dr. Bulik is standing behind Joe and Terry.
Dr. Bulik is author of Eating Disorders: Detection and Treatment; Runaway Eating: The 8 Point Plan to Conquer Adult Food and Weight Obsessions; Abnormal Psychology (co-author); Crave: Why You Binge Eat and How to Stop; The Woman in the Mirror: How to Stop Confusing What You Look Like with Who You Are; and Midlife Eating Disorders. Her most recent book is Binge Control.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Joe Grady. I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, |
| 0:07.0 | where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines. |
| 0:10.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Redex Industries makers of utterly smooth body cream. |
| 0:16.0 | 800, 345, 7339 on the web at utter Cream.com. It's estimated that eating disorders affect more than 30. |
| 0:25.0 | It's estimated that eating disorders affect more than 30 million Americans. |
| 0:37.0 | It's not just a problem of overeating. |
| 0:40.0 | This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden. |
| 0:44.0 | In this country, a lot of us have a strange relationship with food. We may rarely sit down to meals but we eat all the time |
| 0:57.2 | Fast food and snacks on the run. Do we end up short-circuiting our natural cues of hunger and satiety. |
| 1:04.5 | Despite the fact that eating disorders are common and sometimes deadly, they haven't gotten the |
| 1:09.4 | respect and research funding that other medical conditions do. |
| 1:13.4 | What can be done about this hidden epidemic? |
| 1:16.8 | Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, learn how to recognize and overcome eating disorders. |
| 1:23.0 | disorders. |
| 1:25.0 | First, the news. |
| 1:27.0 | In the People's Pharmacy Health Head proton pump inhibitors such as omeeprazol or lensoprazol |
| 1:37.4 | may increase the risk for stomach cancer. These drugs are very popular for treating acid reflux and heartburn, both in over-the-counter and prescription forms. |
| 1:47.0 | They are often part of the regimen for eradicating heliobacter pylori, an infection that can lead to stomach ulcers and increase the risk |
| 1:55.2 | for stomach cancer. Getting rid of the bug usually reduces the risk for a gastric |
| 2:00.2 | cancer. A new study from Hong Kong compared people taking |
| 2:04.0 | PPPIs long term to those taking another type of acid reducing drugs |
| 2:09.0 | such as cymetidine. The scientists found that even after H pylori was successfully treated, long-term |
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