Why Can't My Child Stop Eating?: A Guide to Helping Your Child Overcome Emotional Overeating

by Debbie Danowski

Overview

Help for parents that tackles the real causes of childhood obesity and offers practical solutions. Why Can't My Child Stop Eating examines the emotional roots of overeating and addresses the social, emotional, and physical problems of these children and their families.

With the ever-growing childhood obesity problem, the audience for this book continues to develop. Why Can’t My Child Stop Eating? provides parents with specific activities to assist in addressing and healing the emotional aspects of obesity. Currently there is no book on the market that provides assistance in coping with the emotional issues of obesity that offers an emotional recovery plan for children.

Debbie Danowski, PhD, is co-author of the previously published Why Can't I Stop Eating? (Hazelden Publishing, 2000), in which she outlined her personal physical, emotional, and spiritual food addiction recovery program that resulted in her losing more than 150 pounds over seventeen years ago. She is a regular guest on both national and international radio programs. Why Can't I Stop Eating? was Hazelden's best-selling trade book in the summer of 2000. The book is currently in its third printing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781937612283
Publisher:	Central Recovery Press, LLC
Publication date:	05/31/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	210
File size:	452 KB

About the Author

In her previously published book, Why Can't I Stop Eating? co-authored with Dr. Pedro Lazaro (Hazelden 2000), Dr. Danowski outlines her personal physical, emotional, and spiritual food-addiction recovery program, which resulted in her losing more than 150 pounds over 17 years ago. A regular guest on both national and international radio programs, Why Can't I Stop Eating? was Hazelden's best-selling trade book the summer of 2000. The book is currently in its third printing.

Dr. Danowski has written more than 100 articles for national and local publications, including First For Women, Woman's Day, Seventeen, and Fairfield, and serves as a contributing writer for Fairfield County Home magazine. She has also spoken at countless meetings, seminars and conferences about weight loss and food addiction, including Food Addiction 2000, the first national conference held on the disease.

Dr. Danowski is also the advisor to both Sacred Heart University's student newspaper and student magazine, and a member of the university's Eating Disorders Awareness Team. She holds a Ph.D. from Capella University in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she researched eating behavior in American film, a Master's degree in Public Communications from Syracuse University, and a Bachelor of Science in business administration from Sacred Heart University.

She resides in Winsted, Connecticut.

Table of Contents

Introduction A Professional View
Dr. Amy VanBuren, a clinical psychologist and associate professor of psychology

Chapter 1
Society, Food, and Emotional Eating

Chapter 2
It Begins With You

Chapter 3
Happiness

Chapter 4
Sadness

Chapter 5
Anger

Chapter 6
Fear

Chapter 7
Get Moving!

Chapter 7
Extremes

Chapter 8
Putting It All Together