{"id":3028,"date":"2007-01-12T15:36:11","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T19:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2007\/01\/12\/buddhism-cures-bulimia\/"},"modified":"2007-01-12T15:36:11","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T19:36:11","slug":"buddhism-cures-bulimia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2007\/01\/12\/buddhism-cures-bulimia\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhism Cures Bulimia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a9280'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"537\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/HZ350HappyBuddha.jpg\" align=\"left\">A psychological technique based on Buddhist philosophy and practice may provide a solution for women who struggle with binge eating and bulimia.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe technique known as &#8216;mindfulness&#8217; is being taught to Queensland women to help them understand and deal with the emotions that trigger their binges.<\/p>\n<p>\nUnlike many therapies for eating disorders, there is less focus on food and controlling eating and more on providing freedom from negative thoughts and emotions.<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2007-01\/ra-epp011207.php\">Eureka Alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Taking diet advice from a Fat Man? Not to be sacreligious, but by any modern standards the Buddha was obese. Could his be but the smile of the cosmic clown, who cries inside?<\/i><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A psychological technique based on Buddhist philosophy and practice may provide a solution for women who struggle with binge eating and bulimia. The technique known as &#8216;mindfulness&#8217; is being taught to Queensland women to help them understand and deal with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2007\/01\/12\/buddhism-cures-bulimia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weird-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}