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The world tells us to love ourselves but not to fear ourselves. Nothing about deceptive emotions, negative thoughts, and illogical desires.

3.5/5 stars. Because I'm a Christian, I would recommend this guide with one caution: LaRocca's perspective is counter to Christianity.

Food addiction speculates that certain foods trigger similar pleasure pathways in the brain that addictive drugs trigger, causing addiction.

No matter what you believe in, you weren't meant to be beautiful. The body was meant to fulfill other, more important purposes.

How to recover from an eating disorder? Take responsibility. It's that simple. The first step to healing is admitting you have a problem.

I can name 3 people from high school who had eating disorders. Peer contagion is the influence a friend has on your behavior and emotions.

Orthorexia is an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating to the point of damage. One risk factor is a past/current eating disorder.

Night eating disorder (NES) is a combination of insomnia and binge eating disorder. This eating disorder entails eating during the night.

Purging disorder is characterized by purging activities to lose weight or obtain a specific body shape.

Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, or ARFID, is characterized by staying away from certain foods or eating very little food.

Rumination eating disorder is eating food, swallowing, regurgitating the food, chewing it again, then re-swallowing it or spitting it out.

There are three stages of recovery: the transition/abstinence stage, the early recovery/repair stage, and the ongoing recovery/growth stage.

Pica is characterized by eating items of no nutritional value such as ice, soap, dirt, or paint. It is a rare eating disorder.

Eating disorders are behavioral addictions. Addiction and lack of purpose are intertwined, but with an eating disorder, which came first?

Bulimia Nervosa (BN) is binge eating, followed by purging. Purging is anything that overcompensates for the food consumed.

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is the fear of becoming fat and/or perceiving yourself as fat when you aren't necessarily so.

Binge eating disorder is when an individual consumes a large amount of food in a short time accompanied by feelings of loss of control.