Obsessed: America's Food Addiction--And My Own (33 page)

      
sensory disability,
25

      
See also
Morning Joe

Brzezinski, Mika and food

      
academics and,
25–26
,
121
,
169

      
addiction to foods,
7–8
,
27
,
96–97

      
as adult/ongoing problems,
5
,
6–8
,
39
,
116–117

      
becoming healthy,
34–37

      
binges,
5
,
8
,
22
,
27–30
,
97
,
109

      
binges on
Morning Joe
road trips,
97
,
109

      
bulimia and,
28

      
challenge to/talk with Diane,
13–19
,
57–58
,
60–62
,
64–66
,
78–79
,
118
,
226–227

      
childhood family and,
22
,
23
,
24
,
25
,
27

      
childhood/high school,
3
,
22–26
,
209

      
college,
27–30

      
daughters/husband and,
209
,
210
,
211
,
219

      
Diane’s challenge to,
18–19
,
40
,
116
,
117
,
118
,
125–127
,
226

      
diet changes needed,
123–125

      
diet description,
122–123

      
early career and,
31–32
,
33–37

      
Laura’s house/junk food,
24

      
meeting with NBC vice president/effects,
33–37

      
Nutella/Ambien incident,
5
,
110–111

      
orthorexia nervosa
,
118–119

      
reaction from others,
1–2
,
14–15
,
21–22

      
rewards for being thin,
117

      
running and,
26
,
28–29
,
168–169

      
“set point” weight and,
125
,
126

      
thoughts and,
136–139
,
148

      
Versailles,
30

      
when exhausted,
138

      
work with Margo Maine,
118–122

Bulimia,
28
,
29
,
113–114
,
116

Bush, George W.,
48
,
114–115

Cabbage Soup Diet,
69

Caffeine,
93–94

Cambridge Diet,
69

Cancer and diet/lack of exercise,
9
,
104
,
106
,
169

Candy Diet (Ayds),
68

Cantley, Lewis,
106

Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender
,
41

Carter, Jimmy,
26

Caveman (Paleo) Diet,
157–158

Cawley, John,
41

CBS News Up to the Minute
,
31–32

CBS This Morning
,
88
,
143

Cha, Virginia,
31
,
40

Charles Barkley Foundation,
166

Children and healthy weight/food attitudes

      
family exercise/activities,
218–219

      
family meals/cooking together,
209
,
211–213

      
junk food and,
207–208
,
210–211

      
Mika’s daughters/husband and,
209
,
210
,
211
,
219

      
parents as behavior models,
207
,
208–209
,
215

      
parents’ responsibilities,
207
,
208–219

      
tips on conversations,
220–221
(fig.)

Cholesterol,
51
,
76
,
104
,
105

Christie, Chris,
46
,
47
,
83
,
94

Clinton, Chelsea,
176

CORE club, NYC,
170

Cornett, Mick,
191–193

Cosmopolitan
,
145–146
,
153
,
182
,
183–184

Crawford, Cindy,
183

Cuomo, Margaret,
9

Curb Your Enthusiasm
,
44
,
147

D’Angelo, Charles,
160

Dash
magazine,
213

Deutsch, Donny,
42–44
,
195

DeVito, Andy,
130
,
131
,
132
,
135
,
178

Diabetes,
48–49
,
51
,
62
,
76
,
78
,
104
,
133–134
,
169

Diet Myths That Keep Us Fat
(Snyderman),
50

Eating disorders

      
children and,
8–9

      
focus on weight/food,
116

      
rehab centers and,
29–30

      
See also specific disorders; specific individuals

Eating strategies

      
dieting vs. change,
151
,
153–154

      
individual differences and,
153

      
“serial dieting,”
153

      
sleep and,
152

      
timing of eating and,
155–156

      
what/how you eat,
149–167

      
whole foods and,
90
,
134
,
152–153
,
164
,
166
,
197

      
See also specific individuals

Elaine Powers Figure Salon,
72

Emanuel, Ezekiel,
91
,
94
,
102
,
184
,
197
,
201
,
203

End of Overeating, The
(Kessler),
101

Ephron, Nora

      
background,
149–159
,
156–157

      
on food,
149–151
,
157
,
167
,
224

Erlacher, Laura Eakin

      
Mika and,
23–25
,
30

      
Versailles and,
30

Essman, Susie,
44
,
147–148
,
157–158
,
225

Exercise

      
amount,
171–172

      
depression and,
171

      
dieting without,
168
,
174

      
discipline and,
177

      
health benefits,
168
,
171

      
incorporating into daily life,
171
,
178–179

      
metabolism and,
168

      
Mika as “exercise bulimic,”
168–169

      
overview,
168–179

      
perceived barriers,
177–178

      
schoolchildren and,
9
,
84
,
188
,
189–190

      
sitting dangers,
178–179

      
time needed to develop habit,
172–173

      
tools to track activity,
173–174

Exorcist, The
film/steps,
169

Eyewitness News
,
31

Farley, Thomas,
86

Fat Boy, Thin Man
(Prager),
95–96

Fat in diet

      
feeling full and,
119–120

      
Mika and,
119–120
,
124
,
138

      
sugar vs.,
103–104

Fen-phen,
74–75

Fitbit,
173–174

“Food deserts,”
197–198
,
204

Fox, Jesse,
173

Friends
(television series),
183

Fructose,
104–105
,
106

Fructose, high-fructose corn syrup,
103
,
105

Garcia, Lorena,
189
,
212–213

Gearhardt, Ashley,
92–94
,
97–99

Gebo, Sue,
123–124
,
224

Geist, Willie,
15

Geyer, Cynthia,
152

Gillibrand, Kirsten/family,
162
,
163
,
197–198
,
213–214

Glamour
magazine survey,
44

Graduate, The
(play),
141

Grapefruit (Hollywood) Diet,
68–69

Habit development time,
172–173

Harris, Jean,
69

Hartford Courant
newspaper,
94

Harvard Health Letter
,
157

Healthy Foods Financing Initiative,
197–198

Healthy People 2020
report,
169
,
177

Hefner, Christie,
154
,
158
,
175
,
225

Holland, Joshua,
170
,
174
,
177–178

Hollywood (Grapefruit) Diet,
68–69

Home Page
,
37

Hudson, Jennifer,
65
,
146–147
,
158–159
,
162–163

I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know
(White),
182

Insulin,
69
,
71
,
76
,
103
,
106
,
152
,
159–160

Kass, Sam,
52

Katz, David

      
food access,
85
,
87
,
89
,
91–92

      
NuVal System,
186

      
solutions to weight problems,
107
,
139
,
153
,
184–185
,
186
,
189–190

      
weight problems/unhealthy foods and,
102
,
182
,
207–208

Kennedy, John F.,
50

Kessler, David A.,
101

King, Gayle,
88
,
143–145
,
225

Kirchhoff, David

      
exercise and,
172
,
173

      
Man Meets Scale
blog,
172

      
weight loss issues and,
101
,
154
,
155
,
166

      
weight problems and,
92
,
101

Knowing Your Value
(Brzezinski),
10
,
11
,
40
,
226

Lady Gaga,
176

Lakshmi, Padma,
163–164

Lane, Thomas,
134

Lean Cuisine,
69

Licht, Chris,
96
,
139

Lots to Lose: How America’s Health and Obesity Crisis Threatens Our Economic Future
report,
48

Lustig, Robert,
103–105
,
194–195
,
196
,
198–199

Mad Men
(television series),
176

Madonna,
170

Maine, Margo

      
children and food/weight issues,
211–212
,
215
,
216
,
220–221
(fig.)

      
Mika/food issues,
11
,
118–122
,
125
,
138–139
,
215
,
224

Mayo Clinic,
49
,
171

McCaskill, Claire

      
weight loss story,
159–161
,
162

      
on weight/Mika,
21

      
weight problems effects and,
49
,
85
,
154–155
,
195–196

Men’s Fitness
,
191
,
193

Mission: Readiness,
52
,
84
,
187

Morning Joe

      
description,
11
,
15
,
180

      
hosts/guests,
15
,
40
,
42–43
,
83
,
88
,
91
,
96
,
97
,
148
,
161
,
169
,
195

      
Mika discussing weight/food issues,
13
,
15
,
139

Murphy, Maggie,
176
,
213