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Anorexia-related information
Does eating give you pleasure,
or make you anxious?
ScienceDaily
(May 21, 2011) — While most people have a great deal of difficulty in dieting
and losing weight, particularly if a diet extends over many months or years,
individuals with anorexia nervosa can literally
diet themselves to death. In fact, this disorder has a very high death rate
from starvation. A new study sheds light on why these symptoms occur in
anorexia nervosa. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110520092733.htm
Women with eating disorders draw a different picture of themselves than women without, study suggests
ScienceDaily (Feb. 15, 2011) — Women suffering from anorexia or bulimia draw themselves with prominently different characteristics than women who do not have eating disorders and who are considered of normal weight. This has been revealed in a new joint study from the University of Haifa, Soroka University Medical Center and Achva Academic College, Israel, published in The Arts in Psychotherapy.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110214102124.htm
Unnamed eating disorders may
go untreated: Anorexia and bulimia the most
familiar, but not the most common
msnbc.com (May 23, 2010) – by Rachael Rettner. Anorexia and bulimia are probably the most familiar types of eating disorders, but they are not the most common. Some 50 to 60 percent of patients don't quite make the cut to be diagnosed with full-blown anorexia or bulimia, and are instead classified as having an eating disorder "not otherwise specified" (EDNOS).
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37279632/ns/health-mental_health/
Eating Disorders Awareness
Week: The need for
increased education, effective treatment and prevention
Huffingtonpost.com (Feb. 23, 2010) by Susan Blumenthal, MD & Beth Hoffman —
This week (February 21st--27th) is
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, seven days designated by the National
Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) to raise awareness about the prevalence,
impact and public health significance of these disabling and potentially
life-threatening illnesses. When
most people think of someone with an eating disorder, the first image that
comes to mind is often that of a young, emaciated woman. But this image does
not accurately reflect the clinical picture of eating disorders in America and
worldwide. Eating disorders are mental illnesses characterized by abnormal
eating behavior and obsessive thoughts about food and weight. Someone with an
eating disorder can be normal weight, underweight, or overweight. Eating
disorders are pervasive, affecting up to 24 million Americans and 70 million
individuals worldwide. Once thought of as diseases of upper-middle class
adolescents, recent research has shown that eating disorders cross racial,
religious, ethnic, and socio-economic lines and that 10-15% of those suffering
with eating disorders are men. Anorexia is now
the 3rd most common chronic illness among adolescent women, and the percentage
of college students dieting, purging, or taking laxatives to lose weight has
increased in the past decade from about 28 to 38%. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-blumenthal/eating-disorders-awarenes_b_473050.html
When eating disorders strike
in midlife
New York Times: Health (July 13, 2009) by Randi Hutter Epstein — No one has precise statistics on who is affected by eating disorders like anorexia nervosa and bulimia, often marked by severe weight loss, or binge eating, which can lead to obesity. But experts say that in the past 10 years they are treating an increasing number of women over 30 who are starving themselves, abusing laxatives, exercising to dangerous extremes and engaging in all of the self-destructive activities that had, for so long, been considered teenage behaviors.
http://health.nytimes.com/ref/health/healthguide/esn-eating-disorders-ess.html?ref=health
Survey puts new focus on binge eating as a diagnosis
New York Times (Feb 13, 2009), by Nicholas Bakalar — Binge eating is not yet officially classified as a
psychiatric disorder. But it may be more common than the two eating disorders
now recognized, anorexia nervosa and bulimia.
The first nationally representative study of eating disorders in the
United States, a nationwide survey of more than 2,900 men and women, was
published by Harvard researchers in the Feb. 1 issue of the journal Biological
Psychiatry. It found prevalence in the general population of 0.6 percent
for anorexia, 1
percent for bulimia and 2.8 percent for binge-eating disorder.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903E0D91F3FF930A25751C0A9619C8B63&sec=&spon
Binge eating more common than
other eating disorders, survey finds
ScienceDaily (Feb. 4, 2007) — The first national survey of individuals with eating disorders shows that binge eating disorder is more prevalent than either anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. The study, conducted by researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital, also calls binge eating disorder a "major public health burden" because of its direct link to severe obesity and other serious health effects. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070203103249.htm
Genetic clues to eating
disorders
BBC online: Health (January 21, 1999) — Doctors studying the causes of the eating disorders anorexia and bulimia believe it has less to do with media images of slim-figured models and more to do with biological and genetic factors. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/259226.stm
published by: changehappens.ca
updated: Sept 23,
2011