With the ever-growing childhood obesity problem, the audience for this book continues to grow.Practical: Why Can't My Child Stop Eating? provides parents with specific activities to assist in addressing and healing the emotional aspects of obesity.Currently, there is no book on the market that provides assistance in dealing with the emotional issues of obesity. Why Can't My Child Stop Eating? is the only publication to offer an emotional recovery plan for children. Since em...

Debbie Danowski examines the use of health halos as misleading marketing in the advertising and branding of ultra-processed foods, demonstrating the impacts of messaging on consumer behavior and the health belief model.This book traces the history of halos to investigate how elements of advertising such as influencer endorsement, visual symbolism, and key phrases like “all natural” are strategically employed to portray food as being healthier than it is.Ana...

This book explores the addictive techniques used in advertisements for ultra-processed foods, which promise consequence-free eating to consumers while at the same time encouraging over-consumption of unhealthy food. Debbie Danowski presents an analysis of promotional techniques in the context of food addiction characteristics and behaviors through an exploration of the themes used in this type of advertising. These thematic messages include using food to rebel, to play, to relax, to achiev...

This edited collection explores the malleability and influence of body image, focusing particularly on how media representation and popular culture’s focus on the body exacerbates the crucial social influence these representations can have on audiences’ perceptions of themselves and others. Contributors investigate the cultural context and lived experiences of individuals’ relationships with their bodies, going beyond examination of the thin, ideal body type to explore the emerging represe...

A guided journal to help overeaters get to the heart and soul of their eating patterns.As a 328-pound woman, Debbie Danowski was on her way to an early death when she entered a treatment center for food addiction. During the six-week stay, she was required to keep a daily journal, a task that she now credits with helping to save her life. The act of writing forced Danowski to uncover thoughts and feelings she had kept hidden. It was the key to unlocking her lifelon...

The author of the popular Food for Thought daily meditation book takes a fresh, in-depth look at the Twelve Steps of Overeaters Anonymous.Each chapter carefully examines and interprets each of the individual Steps.

Daily readings for compulsive overeaters who seek to understand the role of food in their lives, supporting a life of physical, emotional, and spiritual balance.Food for Thought offers wise and comforting words for compulsive overeaters who seek to understand the role of food in their lives. Each day's reading in the best-selling classic supports a life of physical, emotional, and spiritual balance.Read daily by millions, Hazelden meditation books ...

A year’s worth of serenity in one book, from the bestselling author of Each Day a New Beginning.Karen Casey’s daily meditation book Peace a Day at a Time offers 365 reminders to help strengthen those traveling the path to recovery from addiction. In this powerful set of daily reminders, Karen draws from her bestselling Each Day a New Beginning, which has helped millions recovering from addiction. Karen Casey writes eloquently about almost...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The former commissioner of the FDA exposes how the food industry manufactured a nationwide health crisis and offers research-based solutions for taking back control of our diets.“Fascinating.”—The New York Times“Groundbreaking.”—USA Today“Disturbing, thought-provoking, and important.”—Anthony BourdainMost of us know what it feels like to f...

Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for A.A. membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. A.A. is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any c...

Seasoned sponsors from various Twelve Step programs offer wisdom and stories to support you in recovery.Seasoned sponsors from various Twelve Step programs offer wisdom and stories to support you in recovery.Anyone working the Twelve Steps knows the importance of a good sponsor. What if you could have the collective wisdom of numerous sponsors of all ages, genders, and cultural and social backgrounds available to you at any time on critical recovery issues? This bo...

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Women Food and God“A life-changing book.”—OprahIn this moving and intimate book, Geneen Roth, bestselling author of Feeding the Hungry Heart and Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating, shows how dieting and emotional eating often become a substitute for intimacy. Drawing on her own painful personal experiences, as well as the candid stories of those she has helped in ...