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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Walker & Company | | Page Count: | 272 Pages | | Publication Date: | March 03, 2009 | | Sales Rank: | 37,471th |
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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. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 7 reviews)
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Informative quick read... by Carrie Bradshaw (Kansas City, MO USA)  4 Stars
August 27, 2009
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.
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No "How to Stop" Miracles Despite Claim on Cover by Amazon Woman (Los Angeles, CA United States)  2 Stars
August 23, 2009
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.
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Any general health collection will find this a user-friendly approach by Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)  5 Stars
August 20, 2009
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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Directions for Directing Yourself Away from Binge Eating by Professor Donald Mitchell (Boston)  3 Stars
July 06, 2009
"Sodom's sins were pride, gluttony, and laziness, while the poor and needy suffered outside her door." -- Ezekiel 16:49
Crave begins by describing binge eating as a common affliction, more prevalent than more famous eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. The book uses a definition of a binge as eating
1. what "other people" would view as an unusually large amount of food, and
2. feeling out of control while consuming it.
Obviously, the frequency counts, too. Anyone might occasionally "fall off the wagon" and indulge while feeling stressed or depressed.
I thought that the most valuable advice in the book related to keeping a diary that tracks such occasions so that people can identify if there are any patterns to binge eating. With that information, the author suggests a variety of potentially helpful behavior-modifying techniques to help binge eaters avoid binges.
There is also plenty of advice that anyone who has gone on a diet will recognize which includes drinking enough water, eating a healthy breakfast of a moderate size, and exercising on a slowly increasing basis. A number of other possibilities for avoiding binges and obesity are also discussed more briefly including surgeries to shrink the size of the stomach.
The key challenge, I suspect, for most binge eaters is to develop an important reason to reduce or stop such eating. Getting into a bathing suit probably won't be enough.
It's not unusual for one binge to lead to enough calories being consumed to account for gaining a pound of weight permanently. Any reduction in the frequency of binge eating occasions is going to do great things for your weight and appearance.
The book doesn't discuss prayer, but I suspect that believers would be strengthened by asking the Lord to help them avoid making an idol out of food when drawn to begin a binge.
May you become more conscious of and in control of your eating decisions.
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Disappointing... no great insights here. by Toni Marie (Nashville, TN) 3 Stars
April 21, 2009
I saw Crave's author on GMA which propelled me to order the book. I was disappointed. The author clearly has spend a great deal of time dealing with eating disorders and there are some high points.
Overall, though, I find the book highly rudimentary in its sentiments. There really aren't any great "epiphanies" here. She touts the need to eat breakfast so you feel full, drink water, etc. All of these are diet tips you can get anywhere.
Purchasing this book, perhaps my expectations were too high. I was looking for real insight that might shed light on the emotional side of eating but alas I didn't find it in this book.
There are recommendations to seek counseling but it would have been great to have a little more depth in Dr. Bulik's writing.
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