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Eating Disorders - Positive Steps
By Runner's World on 04/01/2006 09:50:38
Could you be suffering from an eating disorder - or do you know someone who might be? These pages might help
to as little as possible, or binge-eating and purging or excessive exercising – will impair your performance, and can damage your health permanently.Eating disorders are more common among male and female runners than among the average population. Sometimes
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Disordered Eating: Running on Empty
By Caleb Daniloff on 09/04/2012 09:00:00
Discover how the pressures of performance and self image can take you across the line from smart nutrition to damaging ‘disordered eating’
pray it’s nobody’s birthday at the office today. Cake is the devil.Discipline or disorder?Little did I know then that nutritionists have a proper term for this swirl of thinking: disordered eating. Eating disorders I knew about, but I was hardly a
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Reader To Reader: Getting over an eating disorder
By Jane Hoskyn on 02/02/2007 17:28:22
One RW member is frightened that she'll gain weight if she eats to fuel her running. Here's how you responded
We all know that running can help us control our weight, improve our fitness and, crucially, make us feel better about ourselves. But all these things are complicated when you're suffering or recovering from an eating disorder. This week's question
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Quiz: Your Food and You
By Caleb Daniloff on 28/03/2012 11:19:14
How do you and food get along? This non-scientific true-false quiz will help you get a handle on your relationship with food.
that's right for your lifestyle and fitness goals.For information on healthy eating and weight management, go to nhs.co.uk/livewell/healthy-eating. For information and resources on disordered eating and eating disorders, go to b-eat.co.uk. This quiz
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Gear Pick of the Week: Chrissie Wellington, A Life Without Limits
By Julia Sobik on 21/06/2012 14:19:40
to become a sponsored world-class triathlete.Any perceptions we may have had of athletes leading exotic lives of training, travel, wins and photo shoots are shattered by Chrissie’s revelations of eating disorders, control issues and injury.She reveals how
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Supplements Made Simple - Fish Oil
By Liz Applegate on 05/06/2000 20:57:31
What is it - and does a runner need it?
UAN: Article type:++add book link at top++ --This is adapted from the book, Eat Smart, Play Hard, by RW USA Nutrition Editor Liz Applegate. A type of oil called omega-3 fatty acid, which is found in fish such as salmon and tuna, can lower your
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Supplements Made Simple - Ginseng
By Liz Applegate on 05/06/2000 21:30:49
What is it- and does a runner need it?
UAN: Article type:++add book link at top++ --This is adapted from the book, Eat Smart, Play Hard, by RW USA Nutrition Editor Liz Applegate. You can find ginseng everywhere: in sports drinks, iced tea, herbal supplements, and energy gels. Used
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Time to Take Control
By Alison Hamlett on 23/11/2009 16:08:22
Because of his bipolar disorder, Matt Harmston was overweight and drinking far too much. Then he chanced across late-night footage of an Ironman competition and his life began to change
"I have really dark thoughts when I seriously think about taking my life." Matt Harmston is explaining to me the mood swings he experiences as a result of bipolar disorder. "On the other hand, I have real highs, but they're a dangerous sort of high
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Sleep Well, Run Better
By Sarah Ditum on 17/01/2012 14:25:10
Tweak your bedtime habits to sleep like a baby – and wake up raring to go again
Guy Meadows of the London Sleep School (thesleepschool.org). The sleep-disorder specialist and ultra marathoner has worked extensively with distance runners. “They often end up absolutely physically exhausted, but mentally wide awake,” he explains
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RW's Weight-Loss Week
By Marc Bloom on 20/10/2004 12:20:26
Simple changes to your running; everyday exercise tweaks; and loads of realistic eating rules that you can live by.
-all and end-all of life, can lead to a spiral of problems including depression, malnutrition and even eating disorders. Here is a series of steps that may help you organise and assess your need to lose weight:1. Calculate your Body-Mass Index (BMI) as a rough
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