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- From: mazur@inmet.camb.inmet.com (Beth Mazur)
- Subject: Re: When Food Is Love
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.165558.17452@inmet.camb.inmet.com>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:55:58 GMT
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- In <1992Nov19.232742.11565@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
- >Again, I have no argument about that; I just don't think it's going to
- >cause weight loss. Whether or not it causes personal satisfaction is
- >a different issue.
-
- Personally, I don't particularly think that many people will be able to
- pick up Roth's book and stop overeating. There is just too much hard work
- involved.
-
- But...Roth is not targeting people who overeat simply because they like
- food. That's the whole point. Some people are fat because they like food,
- some because of their genes, and some people because they have gotten
- their emotional state intricately entwined with their eating.
-
- Surely you wouldn't consider an anorectic someone who just likes to eat
- less? Or a bulemic just someone who likes to eat and throw up? The answer
- is "yes, there are real cultural reasons why eating disorders escape men."
- Unfortunately, up until now, compulsive overeating looked too much like
- gluttony for many people to consider it a "real" disorder. Apparently it
- is just now being considered for DMSR-III.
-
- Clearly Steve and Gordon are not "compulsive" overeaters. But I am. I
- am not convinced that "eating until satisfied" is an answer for compulsive
- overeaters. But confronting issues of emotions and food definitely is.
-
- Beth Mazur "...life is more than a vision. The sweetest
- mazur@inmet.inmet.com part is acting after making a decision."
- ...!uunet!inmet!mazur -- The Indigo Girls
-