Crave: Why You Binge Eat and How to Stop

by Cynthia M. Bulik

Book Overview

February 2007, a landmark clinical study by researchers at Harvard University was published in Biological Psychiatry and was soon picked up widely by the media. A survey of 3,000 participants found that 2.8 percent of them suffered from binge eating disorder (BED); that women were twice as likely to report binge eating; and that BED occurs across the age span, from children to the elderly. By extrapolating the statistics to the general population,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802717101
• ISBN13: 9780802717108
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Walker & Company
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Crave: Why You Binge Eat and How to Stop

Explains binge eating disorder clearly and how to overcome. Excellent book! Highly recommended.

Informative quick read...

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.

Any general health collection will find this a user-friendly approach

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.

Great Book on Crave

Great book and well written. I am enjoying it and it came in time and in good condition.

This book IS one size fits all!

EVERYONE, regardless of eating habits, can benefit from this book. With 1 in 35 people suffering from Binge Eating Disorder, this book is about our friends, loved ones, or even ourselves. I am a therapist, treating people with eating disorders, and one of my patients bought this book even before I did. She suffers from Bulimia Nervosa and found the style, suggestions, and explanations of Dr. Bulik to be accessible and applicable to her struggles, even though the book is primarily designed to help those with BED. I know it has helped my patient focus on "one thing at a time", and the book has given her a framework for some extra homework outside of sessions. It has also given me a fresh understanding of BED. While reading, I did "Crave" the book and had a hard time putting it down.