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P005 Additional Presenter Resources

Presenter Resources for "Diets and Our Demons"

Session #1 with Judith Matz:

Judith's Websites:
www.judithmatz.com
www.dietsurvivors.com (includes sign-up for free quarterly e-mail newsletter)

Judith's Books:
Beyond a Shadow of a Diet: The Therapist's Guide to Treating Compulsive Eating (Brunner/Routledge 2004)
The Diet Survivor's Handbook: 60 Lessons in Eating, Acceptance and Self-Care (Sourcebooks 2006)

Examples of research related to weight, health, diet failure, intuitive/attuned eating:
(Please note all can be found online by googling key words)
Mann, T. et al. (2007) Medicare's search for effective obesity treatment: Diets are not the Answer.  American Psychologist, Vol. 62, No 3, 220-233.
Bacon, L. and Aphramor, L. (2011). Weight science: Evaluating the evidence for a paradigm shift. Nutrition Journal.
Flegal, K. et al.(2005). Excess deaths associated with underweight, overweight, and obesity, Journal of the American Medical Association. 293(15), 861-1867. (Researcher with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), lowering estimate from 300,000 to 400,000 excess deaths per year down to 25,814 deaths per year, and finding greater risk - 33,746 per year - for underweight.)
Hawks, S., et al. (2005). Relationship between intuitive eating and health indicators among college women. American Journal of Health Education, 336(6), 331-336.
Bacon, L. et al., (2005). Size acceptance and intuitive eating improve health for obese, female chronic dieters. Journal of the American Dietetic Association,105(6): 929-936.
Orpana, H.M. et al (2009) BMI and mortality: Results from a national longitudinal study of Canadian adults. Obesity Journal, 18:1, 214-218.

Health Issues
I get a lot of questions about using attuned eating with health related issues, such as diabetes.  You can read the article I co-authored for the magazine Diabetes Self-Management at: http://www.dietsurvivors.com/BaconMatz_Diabetes_EnjoyingFood.pdf

Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight also has a wealth of research and information about weight, health, attuned eating and nutritional concerns.

If you need any additional resources, please feel free to contact Judith: judith@judithmatz.com
 

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