Less Plastic Surgery Might Make You Look Happier, New Study Shows

Bebe Moore Campbell Month

Another Brain Fad For Depression?

Guns Are A Lethal Choice

Eating Disorder Treatment
Family counseling and understanding eating disorders helps those recovering from anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder.

Another Brain Fad For Depression?
We’ve all heard the theory — a chemical imbalance in your brain causes depression. Although researchers have known for years this not to be the case, some drug companies continue to repeat this simplistic and misleading claim in their marketing and advertising materials. Why the FTC or some other federal agency doesn’t crack down on this [...]

Guns Are A Lethal Choice
I don’t mean to be insensitive to the potential for destructive nature of a gun in the home, but there was a spate of news articles yesterday regurgitating a statistic which is neither new nor news — that more than half of firearm deaths in the U.S. are suicides. From the Associated Press: Public-health researchers have [...]

Pets Can Help ? For Most
It’s common wisdom that pets help confer certain physical and emotional health benefits to their owners. An advice column from The Times last month, in fact, suggested that the health benefits of pet ownership are global and generalized — that owning a pet has a positive correlation with wellbeing in most people. The research tells [...]

Overcoming Emotional Eating
It's not so much what you're eating, but what's eating you. Here are some ways to stop eating emotionally.

Bebe Moore Campbell Month
Bebe Moore Campbell was a bestselling author despite and perhaps because of recurrent depression, who sadly passed away from brain cancer in 2006. She was a tireless mental health advocate in her community and through her writing. Her accomplishments include the novel 72 Hour Hold, the play Even With the Madness, and the award-winning children’s [...]

Less Plastic Surgery Might Make You Look Happier, New Study Shows
In a study published in the medical journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery recently (and profiled in this May 28 New York Times article), Yale University researchers examined how features of the eye and eyebrow affect our facial expressions and, in turn, how other people use this information to guess our mood at the time. Study [...]

Understanding About the Cause of Eating Disorder

Understanding about a Binge Eating Disorder Treatment

Understanding About the Anorexia and Bulimia Eating Disorder

Learning About the Bulimia Eating Disorder

Anorexia Eating Disorder: Most Prevalent in Western Civilizations

Binge Eating Disorder: An “Unofficial” Diagnosis