Beat Binge Drinking is the first and only comprehensive guide to alcohol use designed for young people who choose to drink - empowering them with smart drinking guidelines and tips to manage and reduce their alcohol consumption. It's the first book to offer youngsters an alcohol education, just like we offer them sex education and drivers education, and it will prevent alcohol abuse and alcoholism before it even starts! Young people will always experiment with alcohol and it's a huge health, social and economic problem. And the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism recognizes there is a major unmet need in alcohol abuse treatment for young people. Beat Binge Drinking fills this need and it includes: - 21 great reasons to drink smart, not dumb - 10 simple smart drinking guidelines - 25 easy smart drinking tips - How to identify your drinking triggers and defuse them - What drinking thinking is and how to control it - What your problem drinking cycle is and how to break it - How to motivate yourself to drink smart forever!
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, health professionals estimate 5,250,000 American women and 3,000,000 men suffer from binge eating. The same month the study was published Jane Brody revealed in the New York Times that when she was a 23 years old, her food binges were so extreme that "Many mornings I awakened to find partly chewed food still in my mouth...." Cynthia Bulik, director of the UNC Eating Disorders Progam, is a foremost authority on binge eating. BED can affect anyone, and can be caused by brain chemistry, genetic predisposition, psychology, and cultural pressures--but none of those triggers make giving in to food cravings inevitable. Crave helps readers understand why they crave specific foods, recognize their individual triggers, and modify their responses to those triggers. Binge eating disorder is highly treatable; 70% to 80% of patients at the UNC Eating Disorders Program triumph over their binge eating by using techniques to "curb the crave". Through the stories of some of these patients--men and women, young and old--and with the guidance of Bulik, readers will develop a variety of strategies to use in conquering their cravings and establishing healthy eating habits.
The Solution to End Binge Drinking for Life!Limited Time Offer: Go to www.plaid-enterprises.com/freebook to get your FREE bonus book!You're about to discover how to finally gain control over binge drinking, and improve your quality of life in the process. Each and every day, so many good people go out to a party or a night on the town with friends and accidentally overdo it with their alcohol consumption. You or someone close to you has felt the effects of this mistake time and again: the loss of memory, the embarrassing photos, the terrible hangover, and possibly an aftermath of destruction that binge drinking has caused to your life or the lives of others.Finally there's a way to help you put a stop to it, while still continuing to enjoy alcohol with friends and family - the safe and responsible way. Keep in mind, this is not a book for convincing you to stop drinking, but an easy to follow guide with strategic techniques to help you curb your alcohol intake and get a handle on binge drinking once and for all!Here is a Preview of What You'll Learn The effects of Binge Drinking Why you should control your alcohol intake What 'triggers' are and how you can use them How to gauge your limit and know when you're good Ways to avoid the most common reasons that start you down the wrong path How to use support effectively (It's not how you think!) Pre-Game and Post-Game drinking tips to help avoid alcohol abuse Keeping your mind occupied and off of alcohol and drinking Much, much more... Grab your copy today!
Determine if your drinking is a problem, develop strategies for curbing your intake, and measure your progress with this practical, engaging guide to taking care of yourself. Every day, millions of people drink a beer or two while watching a game, shake a cocktail at a party with friends, or enjoy a glass of wine with a good meal. For more than 30 percent of these drinkers, alcohol has begun to have a negative impact on their everyday lives. Yet, only a small number are true alcoholics--people who have completely lost control over their drinking and who need alcohol to function. The great majority are what Dr. Doyle and Dr. Nowinski call "Almost Alcoholics," a growing number of people whose excessive drinking contributes to a variety of problems in their lives. In Almost Alcoholic, Dr. Doyle and Dr. Nowinski give the facts and guidance needed to address this often unrecognized and devastating condition. They provide the tools to: identify and assess your patterns of alcohol use; evaluate its impact on your relationships, work, and personal well-being; develop strategies and goals for changing the amount and frequency of alcohol use; measure the results of applying these strategies; and make informed decisions about your next steps.
Alcohol use by young people is extremely dangerous - both to themselves and society at large. Underage alcohol use is associated with traffic fatalities, violence, unsafe sex, suicide, educational failure, and other problem behaviors that diminish the prospects of future success, as well as health risks â€" and the earlier teens start drinking, the greater the danger. Despite these serious concerns, the media continues to make drinking look attractive to youth, and it remains possible and even easy for teenagers to get access to alcohol. Why is this dangerous behavior so pervasive? What can be done to prevent it? What will work and who is responsible for making sure it happens? Reducing Underage Drinking addresses these questions and proposes a new way to combat underage alcohol use. It explores the ways in which may different individuals and groups contribute to the problem and how they can be enlisted to prevent it. Reducing Underage Drinking will serve as both a game plan and a call to arms for anyone with an investment in youth health and safety.
Throughout his college years, Toren Volkmann partied like there was no tomorrow, having what was supposed to be the time of his life. Like so many parents, his mother, Chris, overlooked Toren’s growing alcohol problem. But when he graduated, Toren realized he’d become a full-blown alcoholic. And he was not alone. Considered a rite of passage, teenage drinking has skyrocketed to epidemic proportions, fostering a generation of young adults whose lives are already beginning to come apart under the strain. This book, written from the viewpoints of both mother and son, is a riveting, enlightening, and heartbreakingly true story of a family that was able to confront the fear, pain, and denial that threatened to destroy them—and survive the epidemic of teenage drinking that’s putting America’s future at risk.
Determine if your eating behaviors are a problem, develop strategies to change unhealthy patterns, and learn when and how to get professional help when needed with this practical, engaging guide to taking care of yourself when you are not a full-blown anorexic. Millions of men and women struggle with disordered eating. Some stand at the mirror wondering how they can face the day when they look so fat. Others binge, purge, or exercise compulsively. Many skip meals, go on diet after diet, or cut out entire food groups. Still, they are never thin enough. While only 1 in 200 adults will struggle with full-blown anorexia nervosa, at least 1 in 20 (including 1 in 10 teen girls) will exhibit key symptoms of one or more of the officially recognized DSM eating disorders--anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. Many suffer from the effects but never address the issue because they don't fully meet the diagnostic criteria. If this is the case for you, then you may be "almost anorexic." Drawing on case studies and the latest research, Almost Anorexic combines a psychologist's clinical experience with a patient's personal recovery story to help readers understand and overcome almost anorexia.Almost Anorexic will give you the skills to: understand the symptoms of almost anorexic; determine if your (or your loved one's) relationship with food is a problem; gain insight on how to intervene with a loved one; discover scientifically proven strategies to change unhealthy eating patterns; learn when and how to get professional help when it's needed.
Many people struggle with over-consumption of alcohol. They know they "should" quit, so after their last embarrassing blackout or soul-crushing hangover, they swear off alcohol forever. They try to quit in earnest, and it goes so-so for a few days, weeks, months or even years. But eventually something goes wrong, and they fall right back into binge drinking. Naturally, this leads to depression, lost faith in the possibly of quitting binge drinking for good, and believing they are "damaged goods". The first seven days after a binge drinking relapse are the hardest physically, mentally and emotionally. In these early days we certainly want to alleviate as much pain and anguish as we can, but ideally, we go a bit deeper. The First Week After Binge Drinking The first week after binge drinking relapse is a powerful time. We can use the fresh memory of a recent relapse to improve our chances of future success. While it may seem like it on the surface, this isn't as much about focusing on the -alcohol, as it is about feeling good about ourselves and our lives. Because think about it -- if you felt good in your life before, during and after drinking, you'd still be drinking without issue. Many people live in exactly this way. The issue is not alcohol itself - it's that you do not feel good about yourself and the state of your life after you drink when you do not want to, or drink more than you want to at any given time. You feel that you have no sense of control, like you're somehow damaged or fatally flawed, like you've made such a mess of things that you'll never pull it together, that your persistent struggle with alcohol is one-of-a-kind, that you're undeserving of a quality life full of happiness, love and joy, or a host of any other possible negative feelings and emotions. We want to fix that. The Purpose Of This Book If reaching your end goal is taking you longer than expected and you, too, find yourself trapped in a vicious cycle of quitting and relapsing, there's hope. There are several things you can do to feel better straight away. This workbook to provide simple, practical action steps to helpyou recover from the physical, mental and emotional consequences of relapsing from binge drinking. Goals & Objectives By the time you complete this workbook, you will have: -7 days of sobriety -A log of action steps that either worked or didn't work to relieve physical symptoms of alcohol withdrawal -A toolbox of online sobriety support resources -Clarity on what triggered your relapse -An action plan for how you will handle future triggers -Deep understanding of what it is that you truly want from your relationship with alcohol -A ledger of your emotional process for recovering and coping should this happen again -A renewed sense of well-being and a sense of hope and optimism toward achieving your goals -Understanding of how normal an extensive recovery process is and no longer feel your experience is extraordinary -Clarity on your sobriety goals So what are you waiting for? Grab your copy, today!
Over the past fifteen years, there has been a great increase in the knowledge of eating disorders in sport and effective means of treatment. In this book, the authors draw on their extensive clinical experience to discuss how to identify, manage, treat, and prevent eating disorders in sport participants. They begin by examining the clinical conditions related to eating problems, including descriptions of specific disorders and a review of the relevant literature. Special attention is given to the specific gender and sport-related factors that can negatively influence the eating habits of athletes. The second half of the book discusses identification of participants with disordered eating by reviewing symptoms and how they manifest in sport; management issues for sport personnel, coaches, athletic trainers, and healthcare professionals; treatment; and medical considerations, such as the use of psychotropic medications. A list of useful resources is included in an appendix, as well as a glossary of important terms.
