Showing posts with label bulimia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bulimia. Show all posts

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Eating Disorders Can Last Well Beyond Teen Years

By HealthDay

Eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia are typically thought to be diseases of young women and men. But researchers are finding that the personal demons that drive a young person to an eating disorder may linger into adulthood.

More and more middle-aged and older people are coming forward to receive treatment for eating problems that began in their youth and have been

Friday, October 28, 2011

Men struggle with eating disorders, too

By Dayton (Ohio) Daily News

Traditionally thought of as affecting mostly women, eating disorders among men are on the rise.

Harvard research results from the first national study of eating disorders in a population of nearly 3,000 adults found 25 percent of those with anorexia or bulimia and 40 percent of binge eaters were men. It was previously thought that men accounted for only about 10

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Eating Disorders Can Harm Women's Fertility

By HealthDay 

Women with the eating disorders anorexia and bulimia may take a bit longer to get pregnant than other women, a new study has found.

U.K. researchers asked 11,088 pregnant women to complete questionnaires at 12 and 18 weeks of gestation. Of those women, 171 (1.5 percent) had anorexia at some point in their lives, 199 (1.8 percent) had bulimia, and another 82 (0.7 percent) had

Monday, August 1, 2011

Classes can reduce eating disorders

By NY Times Syndication

Weaving nutrition and exercise lessons into middle-school classrooms can reduce eating disorders among girls and ultimately save medical costs, a study by Boston researchers concludes.

The researchers analyzed data from an earlier study at 10 Massachusetts middle schools, including five that adopted an obesity prevention program called Planet Health, and five that did

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Demi Lovato reveals her diagnosis of bipolar disorder



By Noelene Clark,
LA Times

Demi Lovato, who last week tweeted her support for Catherine Zeta-Jones' "brave" decision to be treated for bipolar II disorder, revealed that she too is bipolar.

The 18-year-old Disney actress discovered her diagnosis during her three-month stay at a rehabilitation center in Illinois, where she was treated for anorexia, bulimia and cutting.

"I never found out

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Are Adult Onset Eating Disorders the New Midlife Crisis?

By www.medcitynews.com

Each year, pediatricians see increasing numbers of very young children, who have fallen prey to eating disorders (EDs), in their clinics and hospitals. But the specter of anorexia, bulimia, and other eating-related disorders can manifest in people of any age. Increasingly, women in their thirties and forties fall prey to these devastating psychological disorders.

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