title: Why Can't I Stop Eating: Recognizing, Understanding, and Overcoming Food Addiction
author:  Debbie Danowski 
description: As more and more Americans discover that crash diets and diet pills don't work, they are turning to self-help books that stress taking responsibility for one's weight and eating more healthily. Why Can't I Stop Eating? focuses on understanding how addictive substances, such as carbohydrates, sugar, and caffeine, react in the body. Danowski and Lazaro, a recovering food addict and a medical director of three addictions hospitals, respectively, believe that carbohydrate addiction is the main reason why 50 percent of Americans are overweight. The authors cite research illustrating physiological reasons for food cravings (especially carbohydrates) and downplaying the effectiveness of weight-loss drugs like Fen/Phen. They also provide exercises that clarify which foods trigger overeating and diets that emphasize low carbohydrate intake. Jeffrey and Norean Wilbert, a food therapist and a registered nurse, respectively, suggest that "fattitudes"Dself-defeating behavior that causes overeatingDare the main obstacles to maintaining ideal weight and present helpful exercises to identify them. This book's philosophy is that even people genetically prone to obesity have emotional (perhaps unconscious) reasons to be overweight. Because both of these titles are clearly written and will appeal to general readers, they are recommended for larger public libraries.DLeAnna DeAngelo, Springfield, MI <br />Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: The	Girl	Who	Couldn’t	Stop	Eating
  Robert	Lindner
  
  e-Book	2015	International	Psychotherapy	Institute
  From	Psychotherapy:	Portraits	in	Fiction	by	Jesse	D.	Geller,	Ph.D.	and	Paul	D.	Spector,	M.A.
  Copyright	©	1987	Jesse	D.	Geller,	Ph.D.	and	Paul	D.	Spector,	M.A.
  “The	Girl	Who	Couldn’t	Stop	Eating”	by	Robert	Lindner.	From	THE	FIFTY-MINUTE	HOUR,	published	by
  Jason	Aronson	Inc.	Reprinted	by	permission	of	Harold	Ober	Associates	Incorporated.	Copyright	©	1954	by
  Robert	Lindner.
  All	Rights	Reserved
  Created	in	the	United	States	of	America
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  ebooks@theipi.org
  
  Introduction
  “The	Girl	Who	Couldn’t	Stop	Eating”	by	Robert	Lindner
  From	 its	 inception	 the	 “talking	 cure”	 has	 existed	 on	 the	 boundary
  between	science	and	art.	Some	gifted	psychotherapists,	like	Robert	Lindner,
  have	written	“case	histories”	that	are	both	scientific	works	of	art	and	artistic
  works	of	science.	In	“The	Girl	Who	Couldn’t	Stop	Eating,”	Lindner	challenges
  the	 misconception	 that	 analysts	 are