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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
High-fat, high-sugar foods alter brain receptors
ScienceDaily (Aug. 6, 2009) Over consumption of fatty, sugary foods leads to changes in brain receptors, according to new animal research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The new research results are being presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB). The results have implications for understanding bulimia and other binge eating disorders.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090727102024.htm
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=
Brain circuit
abnormalities may underlie bulimia nervosa in
women
ScienceDaily (Jan. 7, 2009) Women with bulimia nervosa appear to respond more impulsively during psychological testing than those without eating disorders, and brain scans show differences in areas responsible for regulating behavior, according to a new report.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090105175031.htm
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
Association of Anger with Bulimic and Other Impulsive Behaviours
Among Non-Clinical Women and Men
European Eating Disorders Review 12 (2004) 392397
Bulimics
responses to food cravings: is binge-eating a product of hunger or emotional
state?
Behaviour Research and Therapy 39 (2001) 877886
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
Brain chemicals may cause bulimia
BBC online: Health (October 14, 1998) The eating disorder bulimia nervosa may be caused, at least in part, by chemical changes to the brain, researchers have discovered. Scientists have found that chemical changes that take place in the brains of sufferers persist even after recovery.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/192727.stm
published by: changehappens.ca
updated: Sept 23, 2011