Emotional Eating Center - Redwood City, CA
Redwood City Psychiatrist Doctors for Emotional EatingType of Physician: Psychiatrist What is a Psychiatrist? A certification by the Board of Psychiatry & Neurology; practitioners are skilled in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mental, addictive and emotional disorders. He or she is trained to understand the biological, psychological and social components of illness and is qualified to order diagnostic laboratory tests and to prescribe medications, as well as to evaluate and treat psychological and interpersonal problems. The psychiatrist is also prepared to intervene with individuals and families who are coping with stress, crises, and other problems in living. Specialty: Psychiatry Common Name: Psychiatrist Doctors in Redwood City * George L Wilkinson MD  Stanford Hospital Sleep Disorders Clinic  Stanford Hospital Sleep Disorders Clinic  Charles Xuereb MD  Carol Peyser MD  Marc F Abramson MD  Kathryn Ford MD  Reed J Kaplan MD  Jonathan Kaplan MD  Edward M Kovachy Jr. MD  Robert H Landeen MD  James R Missett MD  Michael J Patton MD  George F Reed MD  Richard S Robinson MD  Kenneth Woodrow MD  Joelien Werne MD  William T Hamill MD  Eric Rothenberg MD  David B Wexler  Gary D Wynbrandt MD  Robert F Harris MD  Brad Novak MD  John Smolowe MD  Robert L Yoerg MD  Carol Achtman MD  Graham Beaumont MD  Martel Bryant MD  Carlos Greaves MD  Alan Ringold MD  Ruth Rosenblum MD  Fredric J VanRheenen MD  Stanford University Medical Center  Stanford University Medical Center  Stanford Hospital Psychiatry  Stanford University Medical Center  Nasrin Bashiri MD  Christopher Capelle MD  California Institute of Behavioral Sciences  Cynthia Nguyen MD  Alan Sklar MD  Janet Spraggins MD  Jill L Armbrust MD  Marybeth Fox MD  Elizabeth Herb MD  Terry P Miller MD  Richard Almond MD  Brauer Total Care Medical Center  Palo Alto Medical Foundation Psychiatry  Palo Alto Medical Foundation Psychiatry  Karen M Johnson MD  Gloria Kardong MD  Palo Alto Medical Foundation Psychiatry  Palo Alto Medical Foundation Psychiatry  Vinh Q Thai MD  Children's Health Council  Norman Dishotsky MD  Rosalinda Taymor MD  Richard J Corelli MD  Thomas B Kirsch MD  Jean Kirsch MD  B William Kilgore MD Inc  Ivan B Gendzel MD  Minyand Mao MD  Jeanette E Bland MD  Kenneth Seeman MD  North County Mental Health  Charles W Casella MD  Behavioral Medical Clinic  Central County Mental Health  Yelena Koss MD  Ronnie Sue Leith PhD MD  Central County Mental Health  James J Bae MD  Etta C Bryant MD  Leslie Hsu MD  Kerry Kravitz MD  Richard H Laude MD Inc  R Eugene Woods Jr. MD  Positive Care Stanford  Palo Alto Veterans Hospital  Neil Brast MD  Matthew S Stubblefield MD  Firestone & Associates  Vanna R Sutherland MD  Michael Goldfield MD  William R Tatomer MD  Caminar Clinic  Marshall A Greene MD  Jeffrey R Weiner MD  Samuel C Marty MD  Christian VonDoepp MD  Paul I Wachter MD  Burton White MD  Anya E Steinberg MD  David Isenman MD  Morris Kace MD  Donald E Newman MD  Jack W Simon MD  Zorica M Ljaljevic MD Redwood City, CaliforniaUpcoming Local Events2012-06-16
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Emotional EatingRead the Emotional Eating article » How Can I Identify Eating Triggers?Situations and emotions that trigger us to eat fall into five main categories.
To identify what triggers excessive eating in you, keep a food diary that records what and when you eat as well as what stressors, thoughts, or emotions you identify as you eat. You should begin to identify patterns to your excessive eating fairly quickly. How Do I Break Myself of the Habit?Identifying eating triggers is the first step; however, this alone is not sufficient to alter eating behavior. Usually, by the time you have identified a pattern, eating in response to emotions or certain situations has become a habit. Now you have to break that habit. Developing alternatives to eating is the second step. When you start to reach for food in response to a trigger, try one of the following activities instead.
Recommended Reading Related to Emotional EatingHow does depression in the elderly differ from depression in younger adults?Depression in later life frequently coexists with other medical illnesses and disabilities. In addition, advancing age is often accompanied by loss of social support systems due to the death of a spouse or siblings, retirement, or relocation of residence. Because of changes in an elderly person's circumstances and the fact that elderly people are expected to slow down, doctors and family may miss the signs of depression. As a result, effective treatment gets delayed. Many seniors find themselves trying to cope with symptoms that could have been easily treated. Depression tends to last longer in elderly adults. It doubles their risk of cardiac diseases and increases their risk of death from illness. At the same time, depression reduces an elderly person's ability to rehabilitate. Studies of nursing home patients with physical illnesses have shown that the pres... Other Related Emotional Eating ArticlesEmergency Contact for Redwood City
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