Just Released 10th Anniversary Edition of "The Hunger Within" Workbook and New Companion Audio-Book

Sept. 14, 2009 - PRLog -- According to University of Michigan nutritionist, social worker and author of The Hunger Within (http://www.TheHungerWithin.com), Marilyn Ann Migliore, “Food is the number one mood-altering substance in this country today.” In fact, almost two-thirds of adults in the U.S. are overweight, and almost one-third are obese, according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2001 to 2004. Obesity has also been identified as a key link in the soaring health care tab. Americans who are 30 pounds or more over healthy weight cost the country an estimated $147 billion in weight-related medical bills in 2008, double the amount a decade ago according to a study by government scientists and the non-profit research group RTI International. In the newly released 10th Anniversary Edition of her book The Hunger Within, (and the new Companion Audio-Book), Migliore identifies and treats the “missing link” in the treatment of our nation’s number one health problem. The Hunger Within takes the focus off of food and guides the reader through a 12-week program designed to unravel the psychological underpinnings (one’s life script), which fuels and drives eating behaviors.  

Since first grabbing headlines in 1998, The Hunger Within has sold tens of thousands of copies in the U.S. and is featured in the Dictionary of Mental Health’s Top 100 Bestsellers List: Eating Disorders and Compulsive Behavior.

This remarkable guided workbook explores the core reasons driving emotional eating. Readers take an enlightening journey with three lovable characters – Fern, Brendan, and Mary - as they discover the true causes behind their compulsive eating behaviors. By following the weekly exercises and techniques, readers will find concrete, constructive, reassuring guidelines that will help to peel back the layers of their emotional eating and get to the heart of the matter and resolve The Hunger Within.

Based on the principles taught in Marilyn’s nationally recognized The Hunger Within Workshop, which was designed and conducted at major medical centers around the country, The Hunger Within helps readers understand the role food plays in orchestrating one’s life script.  With Marilyn’s encouraging guidance, readers will use the necessary tools to uncover, discover, and dismantle one’s life script.  In the process, readers will learn to re-write those scripts so that “food recedes from center stage to an occasional cameo appearance, at best.”

The Hunger Within is now available in a “new” Companion AUDIO-BOOK version. Follow along as you listen to Brendan, Fern, and Mary’s journey from enlightenment to recovery.

For more information on The Hunger Within, please visit: http://www.TheHungerWithin.com

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MARILYN ANN MIGLIORE, MS, RD, ACSW, BCD, author of The Hunger Within and founder of The Hunger Within Workshop, is an eating and weight disorders specialist. As a registered dietitian and board-certified diplomat in clinical social work, Marilyn has been treating patients with a wide-range of eating and weight disorders for more than 30 years. She is highly-respected for her ability to help people discover and resolve the emotional “root-cause reasons” for their unhealthy relationship with food so they can enjoy long-lasting health and happiness.

The Hunger Within Workshop is a nationally recognized 12-week treatment program designed to break the vicious cycle of emotional eating. The workshop, which was originally developed and conducted at St. Luke's-Roosevelt-A University Hospital of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, has helped thousands to discover and disentangle the core issues that drive their emotional eating.