One of the reasons that binge eating can affect our health so negatively is that foods typically used during binging are highly caloric. A small serving of fast food can contain as many calories as a much larger portion of food that falls into a healthier category, as defined by modern dietary guidelines.

Combined with the presently prevalent sedentary life style, binging on nutritionally poor foods can quickly add pounds to our waist-line and plaque to our arteries.

Thus, by taking control of our nutrition we literally take control of our lives. Our nutritional choices will influence how long we live. We can expect to live longer with cleaner arterial walls than with clogged ones; we can expect to live longer without Type 2 Diabetes than with the condition; and we will live longer without cancer than with a malignancy.

These diseases are only some of the conditions that are likely to develop because of nutritional mismanagement. And a variety of studies have now confirmed that nutrition plays a crucial role in how well and how long we live. Nutrition is no longer about abundance of staple foods, it is about matching what our bodies need with what we eat. If we don't change what and how much we eat, we will cut short our own lives.

Not taking advantage of nutritional information that is now available can be termed nutritional suicide. From the viewpoint of what is now known about how food can affect us, for better or worse, ignoring nutritional warnings would be the same as ignoring warnings on a bottle of diluted arsenic. Like slow acting poisons, bad food can have the  effect of killing us slowly.

While emotional coaching will enhance our ability to change, this section provides an overview of what changes are necessary when it comes to nutrition. Knowing what to change and having the power to do so will enable us to chart a new positive course for our lives. This is a much better option than to continue being directed by the latest food marketing campaigns.