Eating Disorders: Who Gets Them and Why
Eating disorders are complex, life-threatening illnesses involving an extreme obsession with food, weight, and appearance that adversely impact a person’s health, relationships and daily activities. While most commonly affecting young women, eating disorders are widespread and impact both males and females of all ages. Eating disorders often develop as a way to deal with the [...]
Anorexia is commonly known as ‘the slimmers disease’. Despite this description, the cause is far more complex than a simple desire to lose weight. It is also far more compulsive in its effects than ordinary slimming or dieting. It appears that sufferers of anorexia have a different mental outlook and confused motives, resulting in this [...]
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Over the past several decades, there has been a dramatic rise in the number of teenagers with serious and life-threatening eating problems. Girls are now appearing in physicians’ offices at younger and younger ages and with ever more atypical stories. While some girls used to be afraid of becoming fat, now they are afraid of [...]
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What is Anorexia nervosa? (Facts about eating disorders) Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by an intense fear ofbecoming fat. It involves an ongoing pattern of self-starvation and apreoccupation with food and losing weight. There is no known physical illnessthat accounts for this weight loss. Some of the physical, behavioral and emotional signs and [...]
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In this article we’ll discuss eating disorders. Although obesity remains a major health problem, the other extremes of anorexia nervosa and bulimia can be devastating, both physically and emotionally. These two diseases are certainly a child of the twentieth century. It is ironic that in a country with an overabundance of food, these disorders are [...]
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