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Hurricane cost TV and radio stations millions
November 2, 2012
In its devastating sweep up the East Coast, Hurricane Sandy knocked out web sites, radio stations and TV broadcasts, temporarily closed down dozens of ad agencies and forced magazines to rearrange their deadlines.
All that disruption is going to deliver a punch to the media economy.
The storm has prompted one major forecaster to reduce his outlook for U.S. ad spending for the remainder of the year,
Brian Wieser, senior analyst at Pivotal Research Group, says that Sandy has further deflated an already-struggling media economy.
He has revised his forecasts for third and fourth quarter of this year, predicting a 0.5 percent decline during third quarter, compared to an earlier prediction of 1.2 percent growth, and a 1.4 percent dip in fourth quarter, compared to an earlier prediction of 0.9 percent growth.
Wieser now expects total ad spending this year to be flat to 2011, at 0 percent growth, compared to an earlier forecast of 1.4 percent growth (excluding political and Olympic spending).
Wieser is also downgrading his prediction for next year, putting growth at 1.2 percent, off from his original forecast of 1.7 percent.
Pivotal has been cautious about its 2012 outlook all year, noting fears about another recession prompted by the fiscal cliff and a general wariness of committing to major advertising initiatives by a number of companies.
Now Sandy has compounded those concerns.
"If we assume that spending equivalent to one day of the fourth quarter was 'lost' (because of interruptions to local TV and radio programming for several days in a significant portion of the country paired with the impact on decision-making among national marketers and media buyers based in the storm's footprint), the storm will cost the industry almost $500 million of activity," Wieser says in the report.
Television is of particular concern. Wieser notes that broadcast ratings this fall are below what had been guaranteed during the upfront and predicts that ad revenue will be down during fourth quarter, partially related to Sandy.
"[Network and cable TV] are those which are primarily being impacted both by the decision-making paralysis driven by the fiscal cliff and also by delays associated with the storm," says the forecast.
Wieser also has a more conservative outlook on digital media than many forecasters, lowering his prediction for 2012 growth from 5.1 percent to 4.1 percent.
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Click here to recommend Collected Works of Charles Baudouin to your librarian.
Volumes in Collected Works of Charles Baudouin (click on a title below to see more information on an individual volume):
Suggestion and Autosuggestion
This title, originally published in 1920, was Charles Baudouin's first book. It is an important account of the early theories of the New Nancy School, widely recognised as the founding school of modern day hypnosis.
Studies in Psychoanalysis
Originally published in 1922, this title was intended for the expert and for the general reader.
Contemporary Studies
Originally published in 1924, this title is divided into four parts, each looking at contemporary issues: 'The Liberators of the Mind', 'The War and the Peace', 'Education and Society', and 'Art and Criticism'.
Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics
Originally published in 1924, this title is substantially a continuation of Baudouin's earlier work Studies in Psychoanalysis, being an application of psychoanalysis to the theory of aesthetics.
The Mind of the Child
Originally published in 1933, the author's ambition was to depict the child's mind as revealed to us by psychoanalysis.
The Myth of Modernity
First published in 1950, this book examines the transformation of the myth of Progress, characteristic of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, into the myth of Modernity, characteristic of the time of writing.
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Why did you decide to write this book?
We wrote What Therapists Say and Why They Say It to provide counseling students and practitioners with a strong foundation of skills and techniques. We wanted to offer a book that has scores of examples for practitioners to better understand basic and advanced counseling techniques.
What's the one thing you hope readers take away from your book?
The variety of skills and techniques within our field is quite impressive. We hope that strong practitioners continue to enhance and hone their technical approach to counseling throughout their career with the help of our title..
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An extraordinary number of techniques and skills have been provided in our book. The theoretical approaches and modalities associated with contemporary counseling have been offered.
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It's a common for people to think that counseling is simply a conversation. Rather, it is a systematic, purposeful connection that requires full presence on the part of the counselor.
About the Authors
Bill McHenry, PhD, is the dean of graduate studies and research at Texas A&M University-Texarkana. Prior to accepting an administrative position, he served as a counselor educator for 10 years.
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What are Psychology Revivals?
They are reissues of previously out-of-print Psychology or Mental Health titles from our backlist – books previously published by Routledge, or by one of the many imprints that Routledge has acquired over the years. The reissued titles date back to the early 1900s, and up to the 1990s. The Routledge Revivals programme in the Humanities and Social Sciences has been running since 2009. The Psychology Revivals programme is a relatively new spinoff – the first Psychology Revivals were published in 2013. It's worth mentioning that the Revivals and Library Editions are almost all available as eBooks.
How do you decide which books to bring back to life?
We search our backlist for books on interesting topics and by interesting people. The Psychology Revivals programme includes early books by paths that led here, including the bumps in the road and the detours that often prove an interesting part of the journey. To give you an example, some of the Revivals I've worked on recently that I've found particularly fascinating are three books by Bernard Hollander from the early twentieth century, on abnormal children, nervous disorders of women, and nervous disorders of men. There's much in them to astonish the modern reader, and they are fascinating just in terms of social history. But it's also really interesting to see how the subject area that Hollander refers to as 'medical psychology' has developed over the last century into a myriad of different areas and approaches. This process in psychology and mental health is still continuing, with new areas of specialization springing up, and established ones being questioned.
Can you tell us about the specific challenges of your job?
Once I have identified a book I would like to reissue, I then need to trace the author or author's relatives, as even if the original contract is in our archive, it almost certainly won't cover eBooks. So there is a fair bit of detective work involved in my job in terms of tracking people down! There have been times I've nearly given up hope, only to get a response out of the blue to an enquiry I made months before. When I do make contact with the author or their relatives, they are usually really pleased about having the book reissued and brought to a whole new audience.
And what brought you to this role?
I worked at Psychology Press as a Production Editorial Manager on new psychology and mental health books since 1999. In 2012, the opportunity came up to take on the Revivals and Library Editions job. I had experience within the subject area, with the processes, and with some of the authors. For me, it has been an opportunity to develop new skills, and I'm also enjoying being part of a bigger team – the Routledge Revivals and Library Editions team. authors who have gone on to great things. For instance we have an early book from 1985, Living with the Bomb: Can We Live Without Enemies?, by the world-renowned psychologist and writer Dorothy Rowe. Plus the programme reissues works by eminent writers from the past whose work is still studied today, such as Jean Piaget.
And how do the Library Edition sets come to be?
Sometimes our backlist lends itself to the production of a set. Sometimes we have a number of books by one author – for example, we have an new 6-volume Collected Works by Charles Baudouin, a French psychoanalyst and contemporary of Freud, Jung, and Adler, whose work warrants fresh attention. Sometimes we produce a set when we have a number of interesting backlist titles by different authors on a theme, such as Jung; Memory; or Emotion. The sets vary in terms of the number of volumes included. Some have five or six volumes; on the other hand we have a 30-volume set in Social Psychology publishing in the summer of 2015!
Some of the Library Editions were published as sets originally, such as the 6-volume Handbook of Learning and Cognitive Processes, edited by W.K. Estes. At least one of our Library Editions was envisaged as a set though originally published as individual volumes: in June 2014 we published The Uttal Tetralogy of Cognitive Neuroscience. The four books were published separately during the 1970s and 80s, but William Uttal had always conceived of them as a set. Upon publication of the Library Edition, he wrote to me to say that he had never until then experienced the whole that the books represent – only the parts. The set was what he had hoped to see from the beginning of the two decade-long project, and he told me he felt a sense of completion.
Why should a library invest in these reissues?
We are used to seeing a subject area now, at this point in time: with the Revivals, the reader can re-trace the paths that led here, including the bumps in the road and the detours that often prove an interesting part of the journey. To give you an example, some of the Revivals I've worked on recently that I've found particularly fascinating are the three books by Bernard Hollander from the early twentieth century that I mentioned earlier, on abnormal children, nervous disorders of women, and nervous disorders of men. There's much in them to astonish the modern reader, and they are fascinating just in terms of social history. But it's also really interesting to see how the subject area that Hollander refers to as 'medical psychology' has developed over the last century into a myriad of different areas and approaches. This process in psychology and mental health is still continuing, with new areas of specialization springing up, and established ones being questioned.
Can you tell us about the specific challenges of your job?
Once I have identified a book I would like to reissue, I then need to trace the author or author's relatives, as even if the original contract is in our archive, it almost certainly won't cover eBooks. So there is a fair bit of detective work involved in my job in terms of tracking people down! There have been times I've nearly given up hope, only to get a response out of the blue to an enquiry I made months before. When I do make contact with the author or their relatives, they are usually really pleased about having the book reissued and brought to a whole new audience.
And what brought you to this role?
I worked at Psychology Press as a Production Editorial Manager on new psychology and mental health books since 1999. In 2012, the opportunity came up to take on the Revivals and Library Editions job. I had experience within the subject area, with the processes, and with some of the authors. For me, it has been an opportunity to develop new skills, and I'm also enjoying being part of a bigger team – the Routledge Revivals and Library Editions team.
This article first appeared in Issue 12 of the Library Lantern, the librarians' quarterly newsletter from Taylor & Francis. See the current issue and past issues here. Librarians: subscribe here.
View the Psychology Revivals online catalog here.
February marks National Eating Disorders Awareness Week in the US and Eating Disorders Awareness Week in the UK. To support sufferers and their loved ones during this time and throughout the year, Eating Disorders: Coping with Challenges in Everyday Life provides a handy compendium of direct insights and practical advice for preventing and managing eating disorders.
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Catching an eating disorder in its early stages can prevent years of struggle and even save lives. During National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Routledge aims to provide you with the tools necessary to catch the warning signs and support loved ones - including yourself - through the healing process.
Intervention during the early stages of eating disorder development can significantly increase the likelihood of preventing the onset of a full-blown disorder and increases the chance of a full recovery. If you're new to an eating disorder diagnosis for yourself or a loved one, or you're feeling overwhelmed by the process of seeking help, Routledge has compiled a host of resources to help.
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We'll be releasing an exclusive interview with a key author/expert on eating and body image disorders all week! Check back here every day for new exclusive content.
Clinical Social Worker specializing in eating and weight issues since 1986 and co-author of Beyond a Shadow of a Diet, 2nd Edition. She is Director of The Chicago Center for Overcoming Overeating, Inc. and has a private practice.
An Australian writer who has a 40-year career in journalism and has battled eating disorders since the age of 11. Her most recent books include Getting Better Bite by Bite, 2nd Edition, and Using Writing as a Resource to Treat Eating Disorders.
An internationally known behavioral scientist, her general research area is learning and motivation with special research interests in higher education, choice behavior, self-control, and food aversions and preferences. A 4th Edition of her classic text, The Psychology of Eating and Drinking, has just been released.
A Consultant Clinical Health Psychologist and author of Cut Down to Size. Since completing her training at University College London she has specialised in working with people with physical health problems. For the past eight years her primary interest has been in the psychological impact of obesity and weight loss surgery.
Free online screening for eating disorders at www.MyBodyScreening.org.
National Eating Disorders Association
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This free paper by Gráinne Smith, author of Surviving Family Care Giving, offers advice and guidance on how to support a loved one with an eating disorder.
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'Where did we go wrong?'
An eating disorder can be confusing for not only the person with the illness, but for their family and friends. If unaware, family members can get caught up in the eating disorder behaviours, and inadvertently support the eating disorder rather than their loved one. Knowledge is power, for often the person with the eating disorder may seem irrational, unreasonable, unpredictable and selfish. Remembering that the eating disorder symptoms are an expression of unhappiness and distress can be challenging.
Families may ask 'Where did we go wrong?' But asking this question will not help at all because parents don't cause eating disorders. A more helpful approach is to focus on how best to access and support treatment and to contribute to your loved one's recovery.
An eating disorder is definitely not:
Biological and environmental factors are known to affect the likelihood of developing an eating disorder. No one factor is responsible; instead, combinations of smaller factors, which alone may not seem harmful, appear to precipitate the problem.
A prison in the mind
Having an eating disorder becomes a lonely experience, because this illness in the brain is like living in a prison of one's own mind.
Acknowledging there is an illness is a major first step towards recovery but in itself can be an enormous challenge. For instance, the tragedy of the death-rate due to anorexia nervosa, 16 times that of the normal population rate, is compounded by the fact that the sufferer may be unable to understand that they are putting their life at risk.
The eating disorder 'bully' works on convincing the sufferer that they can live according to its impossible-to-keep rules, but with help this bully can be overcome, and a full and purposeful life regained at every age. Giving up must never be an option.
One of the most difficult things about coping with an eating disorder is the feeling of fear, anxiety, isolation and confusion. You may experience peculiar behaviours and unpredictable moods when your brain does not receive adequate nutrition.
Factors affecting onset
The factors that contribute to the onset of an eating disorder are complex. No single cause of eating disorders has been identified; however, known contributing risk factors include:
The combination of genetic and environmental factors means it is not uncommon for two sisters to have an eating disorder. In one out of 14 families, another family member will be affected. This causes additional difficulties.
Importantly, when an increased genetic risk does exist, steps can be taken to help prevent the illness developing. The environment accounts for something like 50 per cent of the risk. In addition, the genetic vulnerability may need some sort of environmental, psychological or social stress before it expresses itself. By being aware and knowing how to respond, you can help ensure that the family environment is as supportive as possible and that you and your family modify some of the more harmful cultural influences outside the home.
Most eating disorders start in childhood and adolescence, but can manifest at any age. Challenges on the recovery path may include the addressing of problems that were encountered during childhood, before the eating disorder began. These may include:
Listening to how other people have struggled and overcome their eating disorder can be useful in becoming aware of the illness. Importantly, there is no set pattern. The stories vary considerably
Message to parents and partners
First, repeat 'I am not to blame' until you accept and believe it. You have not done anything to cause the problem. Hit the delete button on 'blame' and 'guilt' at all times. Guilt is harmful both for you and for your child, for it will 'feed' the eating disorder symptoms.
Remember, an eating disorder is not a choice – nobody can choose to develop this illness, which develops in the brain. When your loved one behaves in an unseemly, embarrassing, outrageous way, that is uncharacteristic of their authentic self, remember that this is their illness.
As a parent, partner or close friend, you can be an important part of the solution by learning as much as you can about the illness, and developing skills to manage the symptoms and behaviours.
Love is a powerful tonic. People with eating disorders say that one of the few things that can give them pleasure and reward is time with family. Keep this in mind when the going gets tough.
Be aware that social isolation easily develops, for the eating disorder thrives on 'separating and conquering', and is toxic for the person with the illness.
Time with family, engaging in pleasant diversionary pursuits that you know the sufferer enjoys, can help ward off this loneliness.
Do not try to be a perfect carer. Scheduling time out to relax and recharge is essential. Having support readily available is essential.
Often family members have the same strengths in analysis and persistence as the person with an eating disorder. These traits can be used in a positive way to help recovery.
High levels of anxiety run in the families of people with eating disorders and look after yourself is very important. Seek support and allow yourself time out to replenish your ability to nurture. 'Care for carers first' is a useful motto.
Collaborative approach
A consistent joint approach is very important for optimum results in the recovery process. Teamwork and collaboration by everyone involved is crucial to outsmart and overcome the eating disorder. This includes the patient, the family/carers and all members of the treatment team. Staying on the same page and keeping each other informed will help defuse the eating disorder's power.
Message for the person with the eating disorder
Remember that recovery from an eating disorder does not occur overnight. It could take many months, and sometimes, years. The important thing is to hold on to hope and to continually persevere and be open to taking on board new information and skills in seeking solutions. To improve your chances, aim for:
Phases of recovery
Three nutritious meals and three nutritious snacks, regularly spaced through each day, are considered an essential element both in recovery and as a relapse-prevention measure.
Treatment of eating disorders usually has three parts, though not necessarily in this order:
Everyone has their own path
The extent to which families can help with re-feeding a sufferer depends on the eating disorder's development and level of risk.
The family of an adult sufferer can help by providing information, resources and feedback that facilitate the move into recovery. Family members can encourage and assist recovery by providing guidance, and creating an emotional buffer against the eating disorder bully.
However, younger sufferers may not be at the developmental stage to grapple with the reality of the illness, and parents therefore need to step in and confront the illness on their child's behalf, guiding their child along the recovery path. For example, parents need to supervise meals and prevent compulsions taking control.
This hard but vital work may also apply to carers of adults if insight into the severity of the illness is lost. There are no strict chronological cut-off points – each set of parents, each partner, must assess their own situation with the treatment team. Also, every sufferer, no matter how sick, appreciates being treated as a person first, and illness second.
Early intervention is important because, once the illness sets in, many other problems emerge.
One advantage with early intervention is that links with friends, school and other areas of life are easier to maintain. An advantage of inpatient treatment is that in specialist units other sufferers can give help and support. Problems can be shared, reducing isolation and alienation.
Do people who are 'recovered' get over all their symptoms?
To shake off all abnormal attitudes to food and eating is unusual and after all, even 'normal' people have days when they eat too much or feel like a potato sack. Such feelings are not surprising as eating disorder attitudes to food and eating have merged into Western cultural attitudes about health, body image and attractiveness. However, for the person who has experienced an eating disorder, constant vigilance is necessary.
Even after a two to three-year period of recovery, relapse can and does occur. Early warning signs must be heeded promptly, and the best way to do this is to reach out and seek help.
Relapse particularly occurs after stressful events, such as losing a job, a relationship breakdown, or death. It can occur as a way of coping with a change in circumstances, such as the empty nest syndrome when children leave home. It can occur if weight loss has been triggered by any reason. For example, after childbirth, the increased stress of looking after a new child, combined with the weight changes after birth, can lead to a relapse. Or perhaps weight loss has occurred following an operation, and the illness behaviours sneak back and people comment that you look better minus 'those few kilos'. Self-awareness is supreme.
At the earliest sign, seek help
By being aware of the danger signs and intervening swiftly, you can prevent the illness getting a severe grip. Seek help immediately, for instance, if you recognise the return of eating disorder thoughts (e.g., 'I didn't feel like eating breakfast yesterday, and got through the day okay, so I won't eat it today either. Maybe I can skip lunch, too.' Or 'I've eaten too much, and now I've started I can't stop. I'll pig out today and won't eat anything tomorrow.').
Recovery from an eating disorder becomes more difficult with time because the illness thoughts become entrenched in thought processes and behaviours. Regaining authentic self is hard work. However, people have recovered after more than 30 years of illness. It is never too late. At all times hold on to hope.
Support online
Importantly, a supportive environment also can be created and strengthened in the home by joining a parent support organisation. Here are some international links that offer assistance and links to more to local support:
Schmidt, U., Treasure, J., & Alexander, J. (In press). Getting better bite by bite. A survival kit for sufferers of bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorders (2nd ed.). UK: Routledge Taylor and Francis Group.
Treasure, J., & Alexander, J. (2013). Anorexia nervosa: A recovery guide for sufferers, families and friends: Routledge.
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How does the way one approaches eating and drinking affect the development of eating disorders?
We evolved in an environment in which food was much less easily available than it is now, and what food was available tended to lower in fat, lower in sugar, lower in salt, and higher in fiber than our current food supply. Therefore out bodies evolved to be very good at eating as much as possible and in storing it as fat as much as possible. We have a strong preference for fatty and sweet foods, as well as for high-salt foods. Thus we have a tendency to consume more calories than we need to maintain a healthy body weight. Trying to counter this tendency can result in many types of eating disorders, such as excessive dieting.
What do you consider an important factor in shaping young people's relationships to food?
Young people's relationships to food are shaped by the people around them, including both their family members and their peers. For example, if the people surrounding a young person tend to restrict food, the young person will also tend to do so.
What do you consider an important factor in shaping women's relationships to food?
There is much evidence supporting the culture of thinness in many countries as contributing significantly to women's relationships with food in those countries. For a good many decades now in the United States, fashion and popular culture have idolized very thin women as being ideally attractive. This results in a body goal that is very difficult, if not impossible, for most women to attain, and that promotes eating disorders.
What's the most important thing to remember for someone who is close to a person struggling with an unhealthy relationship to food?
Eating disorders can be dangerous. They can harm someone's body and even cause death. It is important to get professional help for people who have an eating disorder.
What are some key warning signs to look out for that indicate someone has a disordered relationship with food?
Any behaviors that suggest that someone is taking in far more calories than they are expending, or is taking in far too few calories than they are expending, could indicate an eating disorder. Examples are binge eating, purging, eating very little, or excessive exercise. These behaviors may be done in private making them more difficult to detect.
How does an understanding of the psychology of eating and drinking help understand and treat eating disorders?
Psychology is the science of behavior, and psychologists conduct experiments that yield evidence concerning the causes and successful treatments of eating disorders. Basing prevention and treatment of eating disorders on rigorous evidence is the best way to decrease the harm caused by eating disorders.
There are many factors contributing to unhealthy relationships with food. Some of them have a genetic basis, such as the preference for sweet and the tendency towards obesity of people whose mothers or grandmothers had inadequate food when they were pregnant. Others have more to do with our culture and peers promoting thinness. It is very difficult for anyone to know what is causing another person's difficulties with food, and multiple factors may be involved. Therefore people who are close to someone with an eating disorder should focus on getting that person help rather than on speculating as to what caused that person's eating disorder.
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What are the main motivating factors for someone deciding to get bariatric surgery?
Before surgery most patients have a long history of failed diets and weight cycling, often leading to a profound sense of lack of control over their eating. They may live for many years with a poor quality of life, psychological distress and stigma before talking to their doctor about bariatric surgery. The decision to seek help is often triggered by a specific event; becoming ill, the birth of a grandchild, or a frustrated life goal can shift a general unhappiness into an urgent need to get something done. It's important that patients are psychologically ready for the changes they will need to make to their eating habits and are prepared for the social and psychological impact of rapid weight loss.
What are the main risk factors involved in bariatric surgery?
We know that, as well as the physical problems that come with severe overweight, obese people are vulnerable to depression, social anxiety, low self-esteem and a negative body image. Patterns of disordered eating, including binge eating and emotional eating in response to painful feelings, can be a significant factor in weight gain.
Where patients have a history of very problematic eating, they may struggle to follow a healthy diet after surgery and so may not achieve a good outcome and can potentially experience severe complications. Bariatric surgery can also destabilise mental health; patients with a history of psychiatric difficulties, including alcohol or drug addiction, are at increased risk of experiencing emotional or behavioural problems. For these reasons some patients may benefit from psychological therapy before surgery to ensure that their eating is reasonably well controlled and that they are sufficiently emotionally robust to cope with the challenges they will face.
How does your life change immediately after getting bariatric surgery?
Initially people are likely to be feeling tired and quite unwell. They will be adjusting to a new relationship with food; eating too much or too quickly can cause discomfort or vomiting, and people may miss the comfort and pleasure of food. Conversely, some patients report that feeling less hungry releases them from the tyranny of food cravings, promoting a sense of personal control.
Some bariatric patients describe the impact of surgery as 'being reborn'. Particularly in the honeymoon period, when experiencing rapid weight loss, patients may experience a real buzz; getting more attention and compliments from other people can be a boost to self esteem and social confidence. For many the real test comes around 18 months after surgery, when weight loss stops, people start to take for granted the improvements they've seen in their health and emotional wellbeing, and they face the challenge of weight maintenance.
What are key tips for supporting someone who's had bariatric surgery?
Good support from family and loved ones is vitally important after weight loss surgery, but it's important that family and friends remember that they can offer support but can't do it for them. The patient needs to find their own way of managing food choices, and constant interventions about what or how they should eat are likely to be unhelpful. Encourage the patient to be assertive about the support they need, such as 'please don't tempt me with unhealthy foods' or 'avoid bringing snack foods into the house'.
Family also need to accept that the patient is going through changes not just in their eating behaviour, but also in the way they see their place in the world. A new found lease of life, characterized by increased sociability, improved confidence and a desire to make changes, may feel uncomfortable for friends and loved ones. It's important that people are sympathetic to this and worth remembering the most bariatric patients report greater satisfaction with their relationships and sex lives after surgery!
What kind of social pressure or stigma can someone expect to encounter before and after bariatric surgery?
Obesity is inaccurately viewed by the general public (and some health professionals) as highly under personal control, representing a failure of willpower. People's failure to conform to the social ideal of slimness creates stigma. Overweight adolescents are more likely to face bullying and are less likely to achieve well academically. Severely overweight adults experience reduced social and work opportunities, are less likely to achieve a promotion and tend to earn less than their normal weight colleagues. Weight stigma often generates shaming strategies to try to make people 'eat less and do more', but in reality these strategies make people more vulnerable to low self-esteem and depression, and less able to control their eating.
Many bariatric patients report a dramatic decrease in discrimination after weight loss, reflected in improved work and social opportunities. Occasionally people may hear that they've taken the 'easy' route to weight loss, but any bariatric patient knows that's far from the truth.
Bariatric surgery can be life-changing and life-saving. Most people who are able to sustain a good level of weight loss after surgery experience improvements in their health and emotional wellbeing. They are likely to live longer and have better life opportunities. However, bariatric surgery is not a psychologically neutral event; it requires people to face up to their emotional relationship with food and can unsettle relationships. If patients believe that weight loss will magically transform their life they are likely to be very disappointed and this can trigger emotional problems or a re-emergence of disordered eating. My advice to all potential bariatric patients is to have a full psychological consultation; it's an opportunity to explore the emotional and social challenges they may face.
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What's an example of a healthy attitude toward food and eating?
Eating is meant to be a source of nourishment and enjoyment. Attuned eating—eating when you're physically hungry, eating what satisfies you (choosing from a wide variety of foods) and stopping when full—gives you a sense of truly being in charge of your relationship with food. Unfortunately, many people find themselves preoccupied with what and how much they're eating, feelings of guilt, and shame about their relationship with food. The good news is that people can learn to reconnect with their natural cues for hunger and fullness as they move toward becoming attuned eaters.
As something that's fairly culturally ubiquitous, how can dieting be dangerous?
The truth is that diets don't work in the long run. While just about any program or plan will result in short-term weight loss, research shows that the great majority of people will regain the pounds, and about two-thirds will end up higher than their pre-diet weight. So, the best way to gain weight is to go on a diet!
There is a mountain of research showing that yo-yo dieting is responsible for health problems. For example, the Harvard Alumni study of 17,000 men found that those who yo-yo dieted had an 80 percent higher rate of heart disease and 123 percent higher rate of type 2 diabetes than those who maintained fairly stable body weights. In the Framingham Heart Study, a 32-year analysis of weight fluctuations found that those with high weight variability were 25 – 100% more likely to be victims of heart disease and premature death, regardless of whether they were initially thin or fat and held true regardless of physical activity, smoking, and other health risks.
At a psychological level, people who diet end up feeling like a failure when the weight returns, even though this is the likely outcome for the vast majority. That's why our tag line is: You haven't failed your diet, your diet has failed you. People who diet may experience shame, poor self- esteem, depression, and are at a higher risk of eating disorders.
What is the 'Health at Any Size' framework and why is it important?
The Health At Every Size (HAES)® paradigm offers a shift from the traditional focus on weight management to a focus on the promotion of health and well-being. By focusing on sustainable behaviors rather than the number on a scale, this framework eliminates the harmful consequences that come from the pursuit of weight loss while offering support for sustainable, healthful behaviors to people of all sizes. Since dieting is known to trigger and sustain Binge Eating Disorder, the HAES approach is key in helping people end bingeing and to develop positive self-care practices.
The HAES paradigm is weight neutral, and therefore it is not "against" weight loss per se. However, it is incompatible with the pursuit of weight loss. In other words, one aspect of the HAES paradigm is to support people of all sizes in practicing sustainable behaviors that promote their physical, emotional, social, and spiritual health, regardless of whether weight is lost. If weight loss occurs, it's viewed as a side effect of these behaviors, not the main event.
What are some of the warning signs that someone is developing an unhealthy relationship with food or an eating disorder?
An unhealthy relationship with food may be characterized as being caught in the diet/binge cycle, skipping meals, feeling guilty after eating, chronically under eating or overeating. When behaviors of disordered eating become more extreme, people develop eating disorders: Anorexia nervosa is associated with restrictive behavior; Bulimia is associated with bingeing and purging behaviors, and Binge Eating Disorder is associated with feeling out of control with – and consuming large amounts of – food. With both disordered eating and eating disorders, people become separated from their bodies' normal signals for hunger and fullness, and from the function of food to provide nourishment, energy, and satisfaction.
What are some of the challenges facing someone working with a person who has an eating disorder, or who shows warning signs?
There is so much pressure in this culture for people to be thin, with its promises of happiness, sexiness, and success. In fact, it's not uncommon for someone in the throes of an eating disorder (and who has lost weight because of extreme restrictive behaviors) to actually get compliments about their appearance. This reinforces the notion that thinness trumps health and well-being.
For the higher weight client struggling with Binge Eating Disorder, the weight stigma that abounds in our culture makes it particularly difficult to give up the pursuit of weight loss. Yet the restrictions of any food plan actually supports binge eating behavior; the diet-binge cycle means that, as people experience the deprivation that comes from restrictive eating, they break out of these restraints and typically binge on the very foods they've been avoiding.
Therefore, it's essential for anyone who works with people who have eating problems to learn how to help them let go of the diet mentality and to develop a healthy body image. For the health/mental health professional it also means exploring one's own attitudes and biases about weight.
What's a key fact about Binge Eating Disorder or Compulsive Overeating that someone already familiar with eating disorders might not already know?
The majority of people seeking help for Binge Eating Disorder or Compulsive Overeating are concerned about losing weight; in fact, about 30 percent of people who seek weight-loss interventions, including surgery, meet the criteria for BED. It is essential for both professionals and clients to move away from using weight loss as a measure of successful recovery. Instead, honoring cues for hunger and fullness, eating a wide variety of foods, stopping when full, physical activity that's comfortable, good sleep patterns, and mindfulness practices are all behaviors that support the notion of recovery, regardless of whether weight is lost as a side effect of these behaviors.
1 Gaesser, G. (2002). Big fat lies: the truth about your weight and your health. Carlsbad, CA: Gurze Books, p. 144.
2 Lissner, L., et al. (1991). Variability of body weight and health outcomes in the Framingham population. New England Journal of Medicine, 324, 1839-1844.
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Albert Darcq (Lille,[1] 8 September 1848 - 8 March 1895) was a French sculptor who was trained by Pierre-Jules Cavelier. He exhibited at the Salon de Paris, and at the Salon des Artistes Français between 1874 and 1892. His 1874 marble medallion Portrait was his first exhibited work. He was awarded the third prize medal in 1881.[1] His pupils included Edgar-Henri Boutry.
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In 2011 we wrote about Solar Ship, a helium zero-emissions cargo plane that is capable of delivering much-needed goods to people in remote areas where vehicles simply cannot reach. Today, Solar Ship is
Arizona-based PhotonFlightTeam has unveiled plans for a lightweight, solar-powered airship that would be a more sustainable and cost effective alternative to airplanes. The team is raising funds with a
Aeros has been developing airships for the last 25 years in the hopes of building fuel-efficient transport. Aeroscraft is neither a blimp nor a hybrid airship -- it's a Rigid Variable Buoyancy Air Vehicle
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If you think the idea of airships is full of hot air, you may be in for a surprise as the newest Aeros zeppelin might be coming to a sky near you in 2013. In an effort to reduce fuel and helium usage on
A new generation of high-tech, safe, and eco-friendly airships aim to not only go where roads currently can't in northern Canada, western China, and Africa, but also to replace the complicated,
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Since 1958 Scenic Hills Country Club at the University of West Florida has been serving the Pensacola Golfing community. Over the years, the commitment to enhance Pensacola's best golf experience has remained the highest priority. In 1992, the original Chic Adams layout was updated followed by a full golf course renovation in 2006. The renovataion included a new state-of-the-art Champion Bermuda greens, Tifton 419 Bermuda fairways and tee boxes, rebuilt bunkers, and installation of continuous cart paths. In 2008, Scenic Hills opened a new $3.5M luxurious clubhouse, and is perfect setting for dining and wedding receptions.
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Water & Contacts Don't Mix
To help prevent eye infections, contact lenses should be removed before going swimming or in a hot tub.
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Take precautions to prevent eye injury. Never lean over the battery and always wear safety goggles.
Eye Protection Works
Wearing the proper protective eyewear for sports and other activities can help prevent 90% of eye injuries.
It's Not OK to Skip a Day
To control glaucoma, take eye drops exactly as prescribed by your ophthalmologist—your sight depends on it.
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To prevent computer eyestrain, follow the 20-20-20 rule: Every 20 minutes, look at an object 20 feet away for 20 seconds.
What Is an Ophthalmologist?
Make sure you are seeing the right eye care provider for your condition or treatment.
Are You Fit at 40?
A baseline eye exam is recommended at age 40, when the signs of disease and changes in vision may start to occur.
Did you know that a photograph could provide valuable and potentially life-saving information about the health of a child's eyes?
When Tara Taylor posted a photograph of her 3-year-old daughter on Facebook, friends in her social network informed her that the glow in the girl's eye could indicate something wrong. As a result, Rylee Taylor was diagnosed with a rare eye disease that can cause vision loss, but thanks to early detection was able to save her sight.
We are taking more pictures than ever, and sharing them with a growing audience of people using social and other digital media. Paying close attention to photos of children can actually clue us in to both common and rare eye problems signaled by the reflection of the camera flash off the retina, also known as the "red reflex."
The Rainbow of Reflexes
A red reflex is produced when the flash of a camera lights up the blood-rich retina. If the eyes are looking directly at the camera lens and the color of the reflex in both eyes is red, in most cases that's a good indication that the retinas of both eyes are unobstructed and healthy.
An "abnormal red reflex" is a white, yellow or black reflection in one or both eyes. This can be a warning sign for the presence of an eye condition, which can be diagnosed by a pediatric ophthalmologist.
Dr. Jane Edmond, MD, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, points out that it's important to note whether a photo has been taken under optimal conditions to present a true abnormal red reflex. Be sure that:
- the child is looking directly at the camera lens
- the camera flash is on and the background is dimly lit
- red-eye reduction is turned off
If you do spot an abnormal red reflex, bring the photo to your child's pediatrician or a pediatric ophthalmologist.
Very often, a white reflex may not actually signal anything abnormal. "Instead, the child is probably looking off to the right of the camera, and the white reflection occurs in the left eye because the optic nerve is lined up perfectly with the camera and the flash."
"Overwhelmingly, the most common cause of an abnormal red reflex is refractive error," said Dr. Michael Repka, MD, Johns Hopkins Hospital. A refractive error means that due to its shape, your eye doesn't refract the light properly, so the image you see is blurred. Myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness) and astigmatism are types of refractive error.
"Most of the time, this is a problem fixed with glasses," Dr. Repka said.
White, Yellow and Black Flags for Serious Eye Disorders
On rare occasions, abnormal red reflexes can signal more dangerous eye conditions.
An asymmetrical red reflex, when only one eye reflex appears red, or one eye's red reflex is dimmer than the other, may be an indicator of strabismus, or misalignment of the eyes, a condition in which both eyes do not look at the same place at the same time. Treatment for strabismus may include eyeglasses, prisms, patching or blurring the strong eye, or eye muscle surgery. If detected and treated early, strabismus often can be corrected with excellent results.
A white reflex that covers most of the pupil, also known as leukocoria, can be a red flag for several serious eye disorders including cataracts, retinal detachments and infections inside the eye. It can also be a warning sign of retinoblastoma, an extremely rare and very serious childhood cancer of the eye. When caught and treated early, retinoblastoma is curable 95 percent of the time.
A yellow reflex can be a sign of Coats' disease, when blood vessels inside the eye that provide blood and oxygen to the retina become twisted and leaky, creating a blockage in the retina that can cause vision loss or retinal detachment. It occurs mostly in boys under age 10, and usually affects only one eye. Treatment can include laser surgery, cryotherapy or, in later stages of the disease, more invasive surgery.
Coats' disease can be difficult to distinguish from a retinoblastoma through photographs because the white and yellow reflexes look similar, Dr. Edmond said.
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
Pediatricians should check for red reflex at every wellness visit using an ophthalmoscope. But it's important to know that even the most serious eye conditions don't typically cause children pain or visual impairment in early stages. In most cases, one of the child's eyes is working normally, so complaints are rare – even when something is wrong.
"A young child isn't going to tell you 'By the way when I cover one of my eyes I can't see.' They just go on with life," Dr. Repka said.
Research is underway to develop software that can automatically detect leukocoria and other abnormal red reflexes in photographs. Meanwhile, screening and sharing pictures, both online and printed, may lead to early detection that could save vision or a life.
Written by Reena Mukamal on July 28, 2014