The Amazing Benefits of Pink Grapefruit Essential Oil
December 27, 2010 by admin
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December 27th, 2010
Natural News
By: Jo Hartley
Pink Grapefruit Essential Oil is cold pressed from the rind of the grapefruit. This beneficial essential oil is not only a cleansing and revitalizing oil, but its bright aroma energizes and uplifts the spirit. Pink Grapefruit is also known to stop cravings for sweets. If one is struggling with weight loss, this essential oil can be a very helpful addition to an aromatherapy routine
Pink Grapefruit is actually referred to as the “dieter’s friend.” It is also recommended for treating eating disorders and obesity issues.
Pink Grapefruit is a perfect way to jump into those difficult mornings when you can’t bring yourself to crawl out of bed. If it is kept it by the bedside it can be of great help to get moving and wake up. Also, consider using this essential oil for aromatherapy when feelings of being overwhelmed threaten. When one feels drained, Grapefruit oil can help renew a healthy optimism!
Pink Grapefruit essential oil is also useful for enhancing self esteem. After inhalation, one will feel a sense of empowerment. It is not unusual for people to actually recapture childlike joy after inhaling Pink Grapefruit oil. The urge to skip down the street or jump on the bed would not be unheard of.
Not only does Pink Grapefruit help to diminish people’s appetites, but it also helps improve digestion and metabolism.
Adding a drop or two of Pink Grapefruit essential oil to the shampoo bottle will result in a lustrous shine in one’s hair. Pink Grapefruit has also been shown to help eliminate oily scalps and other skin and hair conditions.
If Pink Grapefruit oil is applied topically, it can have beneficial toning and astringent effects. It has also been proven to stimulate the lymphatic system. In this way it helps the body remove toxins. Pink Grapefruit oil also stimulates liver and gallbladder function. It makes an excellent body tonic because it increases circulation and it tones skin cells.
According to ancient medicine, the sour taste of Grapefruit oil can be used to regulate and balance conditions like flatulence, constipation, anxiety, worry, restlessness, PMS, and insomnia. The sour taste also helps improve a sluggish digestive system.
Last, but not least, Pink Grapefruit makes an amazing room freshener and deodorizer. It even works as a disinfectant and can be very effective as an aromatic mist!
How to use Pink Grapefruit Essential Oil:
Remember that it is important to use certified organic cold pressed oil extracted from the rind of the fruit. Pesticides are on the surfaces of fruits and vegetables and cannot simply be washed completely off.
Place one to three drops of Pink Grapefruit onto the palm of the hand.
Rub the hands together vigorously, cup the hands together, and slowly inhale the zesty aroma. You can readily adjust the intensity of the aroma simply by increasing or decreasing how close the hands are held to the nose.
Breathe in the scent of Pink Grapefruit 5 to 20 minutes prior to a meal. It is also important to drink 8 ounces of pure water after inhaling the oil.
If a blend is created with wild Patchouli essential oil, the effect of the Pink Grapefruit essential oil will be enhanced and the result will be a natural appetite suppressant.
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Eating Disorder Label Leaves Many Untreated
April 13, 2010 by admin
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April 13, 2010
Food Consumer
Doctors at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital said in a report published in pediatrics that the current definitions for eating disorders, namely anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa need to be expanded to have more people diagnosed with eating disorders
“Anorexia nervosa is characterized by emaciation, a relentless pursuit of thinness and unwilling to maintain a normal or healthy weight, a distortion of body image and intense fear of gaining weight,” The National Institute of Mental Health states in a document.
Symptoms accompanying this eating disorder include depression, anxiety, obsessive behavior, substance abuse, cardiovascular and neurological complications and impaired physical development.
They may also include thinning of the bones, brittle hair and nails, dry and yellow skin, growth of fine hair, mild anemia, and muscle weakness and loss, sever constipation, low blood pressure, slowed breathing and pulse, and low body temperature.
“Bulimia nervosa is characterized by recurrent and frequent episodes of eating unusually large amounts of food (e.g., binge-eating), and feeling a lack of control over the eating. This binge-eating is followed by a type of behavior that compensates for the binge, such as purging (e.g., vomiting, excessive use of laxatives or diuretics), fasting and/or excessive exercise,” the NIMH states.
Symptoms associated with bulimia include psychological illnesses such as depression, anxiety and or substance abuse problems, and physical conditions like electrolyte imbalances, gastrointestinal problems and oral and tooth-related problems.
The researchers said the diagnostic cutoffs for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa may be too strict and many people who suffer severe conditions, but can’t be diagnosed with any eating disorder by the current definitions.
Rebecka Peebles, MD and colleagues suggest the group of people who are diagnosed with “eating disorder not otherwise specified” or EDNOS by the current definition should be treated like they suffer anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa as their conditions are severe enough to be treated as patients suffering bulimia and anorexia.
Peebles’ team studied 1,310 female patients treated for eating disorders at Packard Children’s between Janunary 1997 and April 2008 and two-thirds of the patients had EDNOS. They found many patients with EDNOS were qualified for treatments indicated for anorexia and bulimia patients.
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Can Healthy Eating Be a Disorder?
February 15, 2010 by admin
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February 15, 2010
Time
By Bonnie Rochman
Kristie Rutzel was in high school when she began adhering precisely to the government food pyramids. As the Virginia native learned more about healthy eating, she stopped ingesting anything processed, then restricted herself to whole foods and eventually to 100% organic. By college, the 5-ft. 4-in. communications major was on a strict raw-foods diet, eating little else besides uncooked broccoli and cauliflower and tipping the scales at just 68 lb. Rutzel, now 27, has a name for her eating disorder: orthorexia, a controversial diagnosis characterized by an obsession with avoiding foods perceived to be unhealthy.
As the list of foods to steer clear of (bye-bye, trans fats and high-fructose corn syrup) continues to grow, eating-disorder experts are increasingly confronted with patients like Rutzel who speak of nervously shunning foods with artificial flavors, colors or preservatives and rigidly following a particular diet, such as vegan or raw foods. Women may be more prone to this kind of restrictive consumption than men, keeping running tabs of verboten foods and micromanaging food prep. Many opt to go hungry rather than eat anything less than wholesome.
Yet when Rutzel first sought help for anemia and osteopenia, a precursor of osteoporosis triggered by her avoidance of calcium, her doctor in upstate New York, where she attended college, had never heard of orthorexia. “You should be trying to eat healthy,” she remembers him telling her. He couldn’t quite grasp that he was talking to a health nut who believed there were few truly healthy foods she felt were safe to eat. Her condition was eventually identified as anorexia, a diagnosis that organizations like the Washington-based Eating Disorders Coalition think is a mistake. The group, which represents more than 35 eating-disorder organizations in the U.S., wants orthorexia to have a separate entry in the bible of psychiatric illness, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
For the past decade, psychiatrists have been working on the fifth edition of the DSM — referred to as DSM-V — to refine the classifications used by mental-health professionals to diagnose and research disorders. Without a listing in the DSM, it’s tough to get treatment covered by insurance. And for researchers angling for grant money, a disorder’s absence from the DSM makes it hard to get research funded.
On Wednesday, the first draft of DSM-V was published online, kicking off a three-year process of public comment and further revisions that will culminate in a new and improved version come 2013. Orthorexia is not listed in this new draft and, despite the ongoing efforts of various eating-disorder groups, is unlikely to make its way into the final edition.
“We’re not in a position to say it doesn’t exist or it’s not important,” says Tim Walsh, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University who led the American Psychiatric Association’s work group that reviewed eating disorders for inclusion in DSM-V. “The real issue is significant data.” Getting listed as a separate entry in the DSM requires extensive scientific knowledge of a syndrome and broad clinical acceptance, neither of which orthorexia has.
Most doctors think a separate diagnosis is unwarranted. Orthorexia might be connected to an anxiety disorder or it might be a precursor to a more commonly diagnosed condition, says Cynthia Bulik, director of the eating-disorders program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “We don’t want people to be mislabeled and not get the care they need because they’re actually on the slippery slope to anorexia,” she says.
Kathleen MacDonald, who oversees legislative policy at the Eating Disorders Coalition, agrees with Bulik that people should get the care they need. Which is precisely why she thinks orthorexia should have its own classification. Although Bulik and others often use cognitive behavioral therapy, in which patients like Rutzel are coached to replace obsessive thoughts with healthy ones, MacDonald worries there is not enough known about which treatments work best for orthorexia. “It’s hit-or-miss,” she says.
After seeking help at three different facilities, Rutzel finally embraced a program of meal plans that challenged her to gradually incorporate foods she had blacklisted. Still slim in a size 2, she is engaged to a man whose oldest daughter is 9. And Rutzel says she is looking forward to sharing her experiences with food with her soon-to-be stepdaughter. “It’s O.K. to eat potato chips and Pop-Tarts,” says Rutzel, “but only every now and then.”
