Book nook: Advice for binge eaters
FOOD: THE GOOD GIRL'S DRUG: How to Stop Using Food to Control Your Feelings, by Sunny Sea Gold. Berkley Books, $15, 238 pp.
Do you binge? Eat in secret? Lie about what you eat? Eat crazy stuff? Choose food over people?
Then you might have Binge-eating Disorder, which the Mayo Clinic calls "the most common of eating disorders." Although this book -- by Redbook magazine deputy editor Gold, founder of healthygirl.org and a former binge eater -- is targeted at young women, its advice could apply to anyone who eats too much . . . too much. (Men binge, too.)
THE SCOOP Gold quotes experts as well as young women, ages 16 to 30, about bingeing and strategies to get over it. (Making a list of 25 alternatives to eating can help when that out-of-control feeling rushes in.)
THE BOTTOM LINE Try Gold's "tools" -- physical activity, support, therapy, meditation and more. But since binge eating is a serious health issue, don't forget to see your doctor, too.
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'They have plenty of time to get him if they want to' NewsdayTV's Ken Buffa sat down with Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr. to discuss what it was like holding the Gilgo Beach serial killer in custody, Heuermann's penchant for Jack the Ripper and what his future likely looks like in state prison.
