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  <title><![CDATA[Feeding the Hungry Heart: The Experience of Compulsive Eating]]></title>
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  <default_description>This is how Geneen Roth remembers her time as an emotional overeater and self-starver. After years of struggle, Roth finally broke free from the destructive cycle of bingeing and purging. In the two decades since her triumph, she has gone on to help tens of thousands of others do the same through her lectures, workshops, and retreats. Those she has met during this time have shared stories that are both heartrending and inspiring, which Roth has gathered for this unique book. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Twenty years after its original publication, &lt;i&gt;Feeding the Hungry Heart&lt;/i&gt; continues to inspire women and men, helping them win the battle against a hunger that goes deeper than a need for food.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1981</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Geneen Roth]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book, and others by Geneen Roth, was recommended to me by a med student working with my physician. She too had struggled with her weight and had found answers that changed her life through Ms. Roth's ideas.<br/><br/>Ms. Roth's philosophy is that intuitively we know what we should be eating to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22114389">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished reading Jennifer Louden's &quot;The Woman's Comfort Book&quot; and in the footnotes she references this book. She said if you read it you will &quot;...never diet again.&quot; Hey, it's worth a shot!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my go-to books when I'm feeling out of control with compulsive eating.  Geneen has a lot of words of wisdom that turn into self-esteem building mantras for those who have issues with food.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Still fat.]]></body>
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