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Eating Disorders
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Monday, 15 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Wellcome Trust researchers have developed a new form of psychotherapy that has been shown to have the potential to treat more than eight out of ten cases of eating disorders in adults, a study out today reports. |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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Women's Health News Eating disorder charities in Britain are criticising the decision by the British Fashion Council to abandon plans to persist models undergo a health test before taking to the catwalk. |
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Tuesday, 03 June 2008 |
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TUESDAY, June 3 Boys and girls develop eating disorders for different reasons, so prevention strategies may need to vary by gender, according to a new report. "Frequent dieting and trying to look like persons in the media were independent predictors of binge eating in females of all ages. |
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Wednesday, 30 April 2008 |
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Medical Studies/Trials In their research on eating disorders, Oregon Research Institute (ORI) scientists help young women decrease the influence of the "thin ideal," which is described as associating success and happiness with being thin. |
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Friday, 25 April 2008 |
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FRIDAY, April 25 (HealthDay News) Nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of young American women report disordered eating behaviors, and 10 percent report symptoms of eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia nervosa or binge eating disorder, a new survey finds. |
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 |
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Women's Health News Sixty-five percent of American women between the ages of 25 and 45 report having disordered eating behaviors, according to the results of a new survey by SELF Magazine in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 |
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Medical Condition News Personal View: The tale of an anorexic male medical student BMJ Volume 336 pp 892In the week that former deputy prime minister John Prescott goes public about his struggles with bulimia, the BMJ publishes a frank first person account of what it is like to live with an eating... |
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Monday, 25 February 2008 |
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An attempt to curb social networking sites and Web providers promoting eating disorders will be made through the British Parliament. |
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Monday, 28 January 2008 |
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Nutrition and Supplementation Until lately, anorexia was believed to be only a psychological disease. |
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Monday, 28 January 2008 |
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Signs and Symptoms Distorted body image Dissatisfaction with body Pronounced weight loss Low body fat Excessive fear of becoming fat Reduction in food intake and/or food refusal Preoccupation with calories, food, and food preparation Loss or absence of menstrual periods (in women) Extensive... |
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Wednesday, 16 January 2008 |
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Eating Disorders are an outward expression of emotional turmoil or deep unhappiness. Sufferers concentrate on food and eating as a way to avoid looking at their problems and to exert control over their own body, when they may otherwise feel powerless in the world. |
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Tuesday, 08 January 2008 |
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A new study has found that teenage girls who eat meals with their families are more likely to avoid eating disorders like bulimia. As children progress from adolescence into adulthood, disordered eating behaviour which involves binge eating and self-induced vomiting, become more general. |
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Latest news in this category:
New form of cognitive behavioural therapy shows potential to treat majority of cases of eating disor Monday, 15 December 2008Medical Research News Wellcome Trust researchers have developed a new form of psychotherapy that has been shown to have the potential to treat more than eight out of ten cases of eating disorders in adults, a study out today reports.
Health checks to protect models abandoned by British fashion industry Thursday, 14 August 2008Women's Health News Eating disorder charities in Britain are criticising the decision by the British Fashion Council to abandon plans to persist models undergo a health test before taking to the catwalk.
Risk Factors for Eating Disorders Vary by Gender Tuesday, 03 June 2008TUESDAY, June 3 Boys and girls develop eating disorders for different reasons, so prevention strategies may need to vary by gender, according to a new report. "Frequent dieting and trying to look like persons in the media were independent predictors of binge eating in females of all ages.
Obesity prevention program reduces onset of eating disorders by 61% and obesity by 55% Wednesday, 30 April 2008Medical Studies/Trials In their research on eating disorders, Oregon Research Institute (ORI) scientists help young women decrease the influence of the "thin ideal," which is described as associating success and happiness with being thin.
Disordered Eating Is Widespread Among U.S. Women Friday, 25 April 2008FRIDAY, April 25 (HealthDay News) Nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of young American women report disordered eating behaviors, and 10 percent report symptoms of eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia nervosa or binge eating disorder, a new survey finds.
65% of women in U.S. have eating disorders Tuesday, 22 April 2008Women's Health News Sixty-five percent of American women between the ages of 25 and 45 report having disordered eating behaviors, according to the results of a new survey by SELF Magazine in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
One man's struggle with an eating disorder Tuesday, 22 April 2008Medical Condition News Personal View: The tale of an anorexic male medical student BMJ Volume 336 pp 892In the week that former deputy prime minister John Prescott goes public about his struggles with bulimia, the BMJ publishes a frank first person account of what it is like to live with an eating...
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Complementary and Alternative Treatments for Anorexia Nervosa
Monday, 28 January 2008
Nutrition and Supplementation Until lately, anorexia was believed to be only a psychological disease. |
Alternative Treatment For Eating Disorders
Wednesday, 16 January 2008
Eating Disorders are an outward expression of emotional turmoil or deep unhappiness. Sufferers concentrate on food and eating as a way to avoid looking at their problems and to exert control over their own body, when they may otherwise feel powerless in the world. |
Call to parliament to curb web sites which encourage eating disorders
Monday, 25 February 2008
An attempt to curb social networking sites and Web providers promoting eating disorders will be made through the British Parliament. |
Girls who eat with their families at mealtimes avoid eating disorders
Tuesday, 08 January 2008
A new study has found that teenage girls who eat meals with their families are more likely to avoid eating disorders like bulimia. As children progress from adolescence into adulthood, disordered eating behaviour which involves binge eating and self-induced vomiting, become more general. |
Obesity prevention program reduces onset of eating disorders by 61% and obesity by 55%
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Medical Studies/Trials In their research on eating disorders, Oregon Research Institute (ORI) scientists help young women decrease the influence of the "thin ideal," which is described as associating success and happiness with being thin. |
Conventional Medical Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa
Monday, 28 January 2008
Signs and Symptoms Distorted body image Dissatisfaction with body Pronounced weight loss Low body fat Excessive fear of becoming fat Reduction in food intake and/or food refusal Preoccupation with calories, food, and food preparation Loss or absence of menstrual periods (in women) Extensive... |
One man's struggle with an eating disorder
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
Medical Condition News Personal View: The tale of an anorexic male medical student BMJ Volume 336 pp 892In the week that former deputy prime minister John Prescott goes public about his struggles with bulimia, the BMJ publishes a frank first person account of what it is like to live with an eating... |
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