The following is a list of presentations we offer on emotional and binge eating disorders.
Please click on each to find out more information:
Speaker's
fee varies based on length
of presentation and size of audience.
When
Is It An Eating Disorder?
Presenter: Ellen Shuman
This
is an important program for parents, individuals or health care
providers who want to learn more about…
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Risk
Factors
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Signs
and Symptoms
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Emotional
Eating Patterns
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Treatment
of the Whole Range of Problems
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Associated
with Emotional Eating and/or Food Restriction
This
presentation will cover issues associated with obsessive dieting,
emotional overeating, binge eating, bulimia and anorexia.
Ellen
Shuman is the Director of The Acoria Center, an out-patient
Eating Disorders Treatment Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ms. Shuman
is a former broadcast journalist. Her list of broadcast awards includes
a Peabody Award and several other National Awards for her news reporting
on the subject of eating disorders. She speaks openly about her
own history with a Binge Eating Disorder. Ms. Shuman has been a
guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show. She co-founded the Acoria Center
in 1993.
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A WEIGH OUT…
An End To Diets and Out-of Control Eating
Presenter: Ellen Shuman
Everyone
knows Diets Don't Work! Finally, someone explains why diets are
destined to fail.
This presentation focuses on understanding and breaking the self-defeating
cycle of diets and out-of-control eating. Participants will learn
about "Energy Imbalances" vs. "Emotional Eating" and will determine if either is at the route of their body dissatisfaction.
They'll also learn about the latest research into the connections
between food, mood and brain chemistry. And we'll explore how these
connections play a role in chronic overeating.
We
know diets don't work!
Now it's time to learn what to do instead.
Ellen
Shuman is the Director of The Acoria Center, an out-patient
Eating Disorders Treatment Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ms. Shuman
is a former broadcast journalist. Her list of broadcast awards includes
a Peabody Award and several other National Awards for her news reporting
on the subject of eating disorders. She speaks openly about her
own history with a Binge Eating Disorder. Ms. Shuman has been a
guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show. She co-founded the Acoria Center
in 1993.
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Body
Image/Self-Image:
Why The Scale Dictates Our Mood
Presenter: Ellen Shuman
Does what you weigh impact how you feel about
your self all day long?
Do you dislike parts of your body? When you are invited to do
something with others, do you ever find yourself thinking about
your size… or the size of the people with whom you'll be
socializing?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are certainly
in good company. In 1995, a study found that when women spent
just 3 minutes looking at models in a fashion magazine, 70% reported
feeling depressed, guilty and shamed.
This presentation explores the interwoven and overlapping development
of Body Image and Self Image… and offers positive interventions
to women who are tired of letting a negative body image effect
every single aspect of their life!
Ellen
Shuman is the Director of The Acoria Center, an out-patient
Eating Disorders Treatment Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ms. Shuman
is a former broadcast journalist. Her list of broadcast awards
includes a Peabody Award and several other National Awards for
her news reporting on the subject of eating disorders. She speaks
openly about her own history with a Binge Eating Disorder. Ms.
Shuman has been a guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show. She co-founded
the Acoria Center in 1993.
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The
Rats Go For the Fruit Loops …
And Other Things We're Learning About
Binge Eating from Animal Models
Presenter: Mary M. Hagan, Ph.D.
Binge
eating is a central feature of eating disorders including bulimia
nervosa and binge-eating disorder. Binge eating is also present
in obesity, anorexia nervosa, and depressive disorders. Despite
the detrimental physical and psychological effects of binge eating,
and its prevalence, the neurobiology of binge eating is not clear.
My research is guided by the hypothesis that the etiology of binge
eating involves changes in brain chemistry that normally control
food intake. These changes are the brain's adaptive responses to
behavioral challenges to normal food intake and body weight such
as dieting, chaotic fasting and refeeding patterns, and easy access
to highly palatable food. Environmental stress and incentives act
on the individual to engage in these behaviors. Therefore, in order
to identify the exact behavioral, environmental, and neurochemical
interactions underlying binge-eating, my research has focused on
developing animal models that incorporate factors relevant to human
binge-eating.
Results from these studies have implicated a major impact of restricting
calories and of fasting and refeeding, especially on highly palatable
food, on the tonic control of food intake by opioids, peptide YY,
serotonin, acetylcholine, and melanocortin peptides in hypothalamic
and limbic nuclei. Altered activity of these neurotransmitters and
peptides appear to be driving the abnormal patterns of overeating
seen in these animals that persists despite their return to normal
body weight, lack of further food restriction, and aversive consequences
to keep the animal from eating. Beyond food intake, changes in these
neurochemicals may help explain the depressive, addictive, obsessive,
and recidivistic nature of binge-eating as well as help formulate
more effective behavioral and pharmacological strategies to treat
and prevent eating and related disorders.
Dr.
Mary M. Hagan has published several scientific papers on the behavioral
pharma-cology and neurochemistry of eating disorders. She is currently
a Research Fellow at the Obesity Research Center in the Department
of Psychiatry of the University of Cincinnati, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Dr. Hagan obtained her Ph.D. in Psychobiochemistry at the University
of Texas at El Paso.
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more information concerning our presentation services,
call (513) 321-4242 or email
A Weigh Out
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