Preface
1. “Eating Disorders Among Adults – Binge Eating Disorder,” National Institute of Mental Health, http://www.nimh.nih.gov/statistics/1EAT_ADULT_RB.shtml; “Eating Disorder Statistics,” National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, http://www.anad.org/get-information/about-eating-disorders/eating-disorders-statistics/; and James I. Hudson et al., “The Prevalence and Correlates of Eating Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication,” Abstract, Biological Psychiatry 61, no. 3 (February 1, 2007): 348–358, National Center for Biotechnology Information (PMC1892232), http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1892232/.
Chapter 1: Willpower or Wiring?
1. Caroline Davis, “From Passive Overeating to ‘Food Addiction’: A Spectrum of Compulsion and Severity,” ISRN Obesity 2013, Article ID 435027. Twenty pages also online in review at http://www.hindawi.com/isrn/obesity/2013/435027/, and in full at http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/435027.
2. “Overweight & Obesity” chart from the American Heart Association, 2009, online at http://www.heart.org/idc/groups/heart-public/@wcm/@sop/@smd/documents/downloadable/ucm_319588.pdf.
3. Luca Passamonti et al., “Personality Predicts the Brain’s Response to Viewing Appetizing Foods: The Neural Basis of a Risk Factor for Overeating,” Journal of Neuroscience, January 7, 2009, 43–51.
4. Ibid.
Chapter 2: The Chemistry of Triggering
1. Two important studies detail the brain chemistry similarities in people with food addiction and people with addictions to other substances: N. M. Avena, Pedro Rada, B. G. Hoebel, “Evidence for Sugar Addiction: Behavioral and Neurochemical Effects of Intermittent, Excessive Sugar Intake,” Abstract, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 32, no. 1 (January 2008): 20–39, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17617461; David Mysels and Maria A. Sullivan, “The Relationship between Opioid and Sugar Intake: Review of Evidence and Clinical Applications,” Abstract, Journal of Opioid Management 6, no. 6 (November/December 2010): 445–52, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3109725/.
2. Ibid. Also: Kitta MacPherson, “Sugar Can Be Addictive, Princeton Scientist Says,” Princeton University, December 10, 2008, http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S22/88/56G31/index.xml?section=topstories.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Avena, Rada, and Hoebel, “Evidence for Sugar Addiction.”
Chapter 3: Know Thyself
1. Ashley N. Gearhardt, William R. Corbin, Kelly D. Brownwell, “Yale Food Addiction Scale,” Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2009. Available online at http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/resources/upload/docs/what/addiction/FoodAddictionScale09.pdf.
2. Laura Sanders, “The Brain Set Free,” Science News 182, no. 3 (August 22, 2012): 18–21, http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/342559/description/The_Brain_Set_Free; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “MIT Researcher Finds Neuron Growth in Adult Brain,” December 27, 2005, ScienceDaily, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/12/051227111212.htm.
Chapter 4: The Science of the Spirit
1. Several articles amass the wealth of study on how faith helps healing, builds immunity, and benefits your thinking and physical abilities. These two comprehensive news features point to the array of research: Jeffrey Kluger, “The Biology of Belief,” Time, February 12, 2009, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1879179,00.html; Gery Wenk, “Religiosity and Neuoroscience: Does the Absence of a Serotonin Receptor Lead to Spirituality?” Your Brain on Food (blog) Psychology Today, August 2, 2010, http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/your-brain-food/201008/religiosity-and-neuroscience.
2. Cell biologist Bruce Lipton, after pioneering studies at the University of Wisconsin and Stanford University, coined the phrase “the biology of belief” in his book by the same title that examines how faith brings about health: Bruce H. Lipton, The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, and Miracles rev. ed. (Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, 2008).
3. Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman, How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Finding from a Leading Neuroscientist (New York: Ballantine, 2010).
4. Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place (New York: Bantam, 1971); Corrie ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord (New York: Jove, 1986).
5. Pamela Rosewell Moore, The Five Silent Years of Corrie ten Boom (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1986).
6. Newberg and Waldman, God Changes Your Brain.
7. Barbara Bradley Hagerty, “Prayer May Reshape Your Brain … And Your Reality,” All Things Considered, radio broadcast, National Public Radio, May 20, 2009, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104310443.
8. Standards for Life (Bristol, TN: Christian Medical and Dental Associations, n.d.), http://www.faithandhealthconnection.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/the_faith_and_health_connection_cmda_standards_for_life1.pdf. This publication of the Christian Medical and Dental Associations lists dozens of respected studies that show faith does help health and healing.
9. Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God (1958; repr., Grand Rapids: Revell, 1967).
10. Sindya N. Bhanoo, “How Meditation May Change the Brain,” New York Times, January 28, 2011. Online: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/how-meditation-may-change-the-brain/?pagewanted=print. The Times blog post refers to the findings of Britta K. Hölzel, James Carmody, Mark Vangel, Christina Congleton, Sita M. Yerramsetti, Tim Gard, and Sara W. Lazar, “Mindfulness Practice Leads to Increases in Regional Brain Gray Matter Density,” Abstract, Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 191, no. 1 (January 30, 2011): 36–43, http://www.psyn-journal.com/article/S0925-4927%2810%2900288-X/abstract.
11. Mark Wheeler, “Evidence Builds That Meditation Strengthens the Brain,” March 14, 2012, ScienceDaily, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120314170647.htm.
Chapter 5: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
1. Sandra Boynton is an American humorist, songwriter, children’s author and illustrator, who has written and illustrated more than forty books for both children and adults, as well as more than four thousand greeting cards and four music albums.
2. Dawn French, BrainyQuotes, http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/d/dawnfrench263651.html.
3. C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1950; repr., New York: HarperCollins, 2002).
4. Janet Greeson, It’s Not What You’re Eating, It’s What’s Eating You: The 28-Day Plan to Heal Hidden Food Addiction (New York: Pocket Books, 1990).
Chapter 6: What Is Eating You?
1. The adage became the title of the bestselling book by Sylvia Boorstein, Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing a Joyful Life (New York: Ballantine, 2007).
Chapter 7: Stinkin’ Thinkin’
1. Daniel G. Amen, Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2010). His theories of ANTs, automatic negative thoughts, are peppered throughout the book, especially chapter 13, “The ANT Solution.”
2. Alvin Powell, “Alcohol Abuse after Weight Loss Surgery?” Harvard Gazette, July 30, 2012, http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/07/alcohol-abuse-after-weight-loss-surgery/. The roundtable of Harvard neuroscientists, psychologists, and surgeons was generated by initial research at the University of North Dakota Medical School’s Department of Clinical Neuroscience, published as a May 1, 2006, paper for the Journal of the American Medical Association: Ninh T. Nguyen et al., “Result of a National Audit of Bariatric Surgery Performed at Academic Centers: a 2004 University HealthSystem Consortium Benchmarking Project, Abstract, Archives of Surgery 141, no. 5 (May 1, 2006): 445–450, doi: 10.1001/archsurg.141.5.445.
Chapter 8: It’s All Peace and Love
1. Stephanie Paulsell, Honoring the Body: Meditations on a Christian Practice (New York: Jossey-Bass, 2002), 33.
2. Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Munter, When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies: Freeing Yourself from Food and Weight Obsession (New York: Fawcett, 1995).
3. James 5:7–18 tells how prayer and changing your thinking, being patient and enduring results in goodness—how even the prophet Elijah, “with a nature like ours,” prayed and believed for years for a thing to happen, and it did.
4. Ibid.
5. James 5:11–16.
Chapter 9: Walking the Minefield
1. “Princess Diana’s Anti-Mine Legacy,” CNN World News, September 10, 1997, http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9709/10/diana.angola/index.html.
2. Diana, Princess of Wales, “Responding to Landmines: A Modern Tragedy and Its Solutions,” Gifts of Speech website (keynote address, Mines Advisory Group and Landmine Survivors Network seminar, London, June 12, 1997), http://gos.sbc.edu/d/diana.html.
Chapter 10: Tackling the Trigger Strongholds
1. Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed. (New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Service, 2002).
2. “Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace” or “The Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi” can be traced back to its first publication in 1912 in French in the magazine La Clochette (The Little Bell) as an anonymous prayer and then in the January 1927 Quaker magazine Friends’ Intelligencer (Philadelphia). It is widely attributed to the thirteenth-century St. Francis of Assisi.
Chapter 11: Sweet Surrender
1. The moral tale about a boy and a snake that turns on him is told in the legend and lore of many people, including the Cherokee, Seneca, and Hindu. A version of it can be found online at http://www.indigenouspeople.net/snake.htm.
2. Muhammad Ali became the first and only three-time lineal heavyweight champion of boxing, earning the Golden Gloves championship in 1959, an Olympic gold medal the following year; and all his bouts in the 1960s—the majority by knockout. In 1999, he was named “Sportsman of the Century” by Sports Illustrated and “Sports Personality of the Century” by the BBC.
3. Portia Nelson, There’s a Hole in My Sidewalk: The Romance of Self Self-Discovery (Originally published, Los Angeles: Popular Library, 1977; Hillsboro, OR: Beyond Words, 1994). The story of choosing a new course is actually a poem called “Autobiography in Five Short Chapters,” a few lines of which begin each of the book’s five chapters.
Chapter 12: Do What You Can and Let God Do the Rest
1. In Colossians 2:2–3 the apostle Paul encourages us that there is wisdom, truth, and assurance in knowing God’s will, and yet His ways still remain a mystery. Psalm 77:14 says, “You are the God who works wonders; You have made known Your strength among the peoples.” In Isaiah 45, the prophet acknowledges that God does hide Himself at times, that He is a mystery, and yet He always delights in being found and, indeed, chases us. God tells us in Habakkuk 1:5 to be astonished at how He works for us: “Because I am doing something in your days—you would not believe if you were told.”
2. In the first study to examine what the public thinks about people with an addiction to food, research from the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale found that the notion of food addiction could increase the stigma already associated with obesity. The findings were reported in Megan Orciari, “Are ‘Food Addicts’ Stigmatized?” Yale News, February 5, 2013, http://news.yale.edu/2013/02/05/are-food-addicts-stigmatized. For the full study, see Jenny A. DePierre, Rebecca M. Puhl, and Joerg Luedicke, “A New Stigmatized Identity? Comparisons of a ‘Food Addict’ Label with Other Stigmatized Health Conditions,” Yale University Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity (New Haven, CT: Routledge Taylor & Francis, 2013), doi: 10.1080/01973533.2012.746148.
3. Cassius Clay, who later changed his name to Muhammad Ali, delivered the line about how he would win all his fights because he would “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” in what’s come to be called his “I Am the Greatest” speech, first broadcast on the February 24, 1964, episode of the CBS television series I’ve Got a Secret, hosted by Gary Moore.
Chapter 14: Developing a Food Plan
1. Angela Ogunjimi, “Does Excess Caffeine Prevent Weight Loss?” LiveStrong (blog), December 22, 2010, http://www.livestrong.com/article/340997-does-excess-caffeine-prevent-weight-loss/#ixzz2.blefBYFu.
2. Susan M. Kleiner, “Electrolyte Envy: When Water Alone Isn’t Enough,” http://www.hylytes.com/documents/Kleiner-ElectrolyteEnvy.pdf. Kleiner is the owner of High Performance Nutrition, a consulting firm in Mercer Island, Washington, and the author of seven books, including The Good Mood Diet, Power Eating, and PowerFood Nutrition Plan.
3. “Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load for 100+ Foods” chart, Harvard Health Publications, Harvard Medical School, http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/Glycemic_index_and_glycemic_load_for_100_foods.htm.
Chapter 16: Build a Winning Support System
1. Julia Child, My Life in France (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006).