On Eating

by Susie Orbach

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'Eating is pleasurable, eating is delicious, eating is sensual' says Susie. But for so many of us eating is associated with anguish and abstinence. From the first page this little book shows us how to think and feel differently about what we eat. So that we eat when we are hungry, eat what we want to eat to satisfy us and stop when we are full. Each page contains an easily absorbed bite-sized statement to transform eating that hurts into eating that nourishes and calms. This book isn't magic show more but it feels as if it is. show less

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Five principles:
Eat When you're hungry
Eat the food you are hungry for
Find out why you want to eat when you're not hungry
Tasting every mouthful
Stopping when you're full

are at the core of this book, she goes into more debth with them and suggests ways of dealing and retuning your body to the real hunger.

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Susie Orbach is a cofounder of the Women's Therapy Centre in London and a visiting professor at the London School of Economics. She is also a cofounder of the Women's Therapy Centre Institute in New York. Orbach lives in London with her partner and two children

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On Eating

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Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Food & Cooking, Sexuality and Gender Studies
DDC/MDS
616.8526Applied Science & TechnologyMedicine & healthDiseases, Allergies, Skin ConditionsNervous Disorders: Autism, Anorexia, OCDMiscellaneousNeurosesEating disorders
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RC552 .E18 .O73MedicineInternal medicineInternal medicineNeurosciences. Biological psychiatry. NeuropsychiatryPsychiatryPsychopathologyNeuroses
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Dutch, English, German, Spanish
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