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School obesity programs may
promote worrisome eating behaviors and physical activity in kids
ScienceDaily (Jan. 24, 2012) – In a new poll, 30% of parents report at least one worrisome behavior in their children that could be associated with the development of eating disorders. A new report from the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health examines the possible association between school-based childhood obesity prevention programs and an increase in eating disorders among young children and adolescents.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120124151207.htm
More than half a million U.S. teens have had eating
disorders, study finds
Huffington Post (Mar. 7, 2011) By Lindsey Tanner – More than half a million U.S. teens have had an eating disorder but few have sought treatment for the problem, government research shows. The study is billed as the largest and most comprehensive analysis of eating disorders. It involved nationally representative data on more than 10,000 teens aged 13 to 18. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/07/half-million-teens-eating-disorders_n_832680.html?ref=email_share
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 and 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…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…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
Eating quickly is associated with overeating, study indicates
ScienceDaily (Nov. 4, 2009) — According to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM), eating a meal quickly, as compared to slowly, curtails the release of hormones in the gut that induce feelings of being full. The decreased release of these hormones, can often lead to overeating. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091104085230.htm
Eating
disorder risk higher in educated families: Researchers suggest these girls may feel more pressure to succeed
Msnbc.com
(Sept. 18, 2009) —Girls whose mothers, fathers, and grandparents are highly
educated may have an increased risk of developing an eating
disorder, a new study suggests — particularly if the girls themselves do
well in school.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32916976/ns/health-mental_health/
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
Emotions can help predict
future eating disorders
ScienceDaily (Mar. 17, 2009) — A PhD
thesis at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has analysed the role
played by a number of emotional variables, such as the way in which negative
emotions are controlled or attitudes to emotional expression, and to use these
variables as tools to predict the possibility of suffering an eating disorder.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090317095018.htm
Rats show the perils of sugar addiction, researchers
say
CBC News
(Dec. 10, 2008) — Sugar can be addictive, wielding power
over the brains of lab animals much like a craving for drugs, according to Princeton
University scientists who say their findings may eventually have implications
for the treatment of humans with eating disorders. Psychologist Bart Hoebel and colleagues at
the university's Neuroscience Institute have studied what they call sugar
addiction in rats for years. They say
their rats have met two of the three elements of addiction — they show a
pattern of increased intake and then signs of withdrawal. But Hoebel's most
recent experiments also demonstrate a third element — craving and relapse. http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/12/10/sugar.html
Girls with ADHD more
likely to develop eating disorders: study
CBC News (Mar. 17, 2008) — Teen girls who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder may have a much higher risk of developing eating disorders than girls without ADHD, a new U.S. study suggests. Symptoms of ADHD can include a short attention span, a low level of organization, excessive talking, aggressive gestures and irritability. It affects five per cent of school-age children, according to the study's authors. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Virginia, found that girls with ADHD were more likely to develop eating disorders such as bulimia nervosa, in which a person first binges on food and then vomits to prevent weight gain. http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/03/17/adhd--study.html
Weighty matters: We know that the trend toward super-thin models is pushing some of them to go on potentially deadly diets. What's it doing to the rest of us?
Newsweek
(Feb 20, 2008) by Jessica Bennett, Sarah Childress and Susanna
Schrobsdorff — The specter of
dangerously thin models has raised its beautiful, lolling head once again, this
time at New York's Fashion Week, which ends Friday. Stung by negative publicity
about boney apparitions on the catwalks, the fashion industry invited eating disorder experts to an unprecedented symposium
on the subject in the tents at Bryant Park. It was quite a spectacle.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/113689
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
Sorry. Your eating disorder doesn't meet our criteria.
New
York Times: Health (Nov. 30, 2004) by Robin Marantz Henig
Imagine a 20-year-old woman who
refuses to eat anything except carrots and toast because she is afraid of
gaining weight, even though she is 5-foot-8 and weighs only 99 pounds. She
exercises to the point of exhaustion five mornings a week because, though she
is bone-thin, she thinks her thighs are too flabby. Her periods are irregular,
but she has never gone more than three months without menstruating. Another
woman, who is also 20 and also 5-foot-8, has an opposite eating pattern. She
goes without eating all day, and starting at 6 p.m. she eats nonstop, whatever
she can get her hands on. Her favorite pastime is to sit in front of the
television with a gallon of mocha-chip ice cream. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/30/health/psychology/30eat.html?_r=1
Measuring brain activity in
people eating chocolate offers new clues about how the body becomes addicted
ScienceDaily (Aug. 29, 2001) — Using positron emission tomography scans to measure brain activity in people eating chocolate, a team of U.S. and Canadian neuroscientists believe they have identified areas of the brain that may underlie addiction and eating disorders.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/08/010829082943.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
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