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News Articles About Eating Disorders
Exercising to Extremes
When Exercise Becomes an Addiction
Is there such a thing as too much exercise? Doctors say that as many as 4 percent of adult Americans suffer from an addictive disorder called exercise bulimia.
"We're talking about people who can exercise literally between five, six and seven hours a day, even if they're ill." says Dr. Ira Sacker. "These are individuals generally who have a hard time with moderation."
Baylor parent runs campaign to end eating disorders
One mother's love has grown into a one-woman campaign to increase awareness about the dangers of eating disorders. Realizing the need for students around Waco to be helped, Dawn
Montaner, Lifelines coordinator, organized two support groups with the help of Tina
Zellman, a Waco dietician. Lifelines is an eating disorder awareness program.
Tumbling Down
In 1988, 15-year-old gymnast Christy Henrich was striving to make the Olympic team. Early that year, though, a judge at a national competition reportedly told Henrich that if she expected to make the team, she would have to lose some weight. That advice proved devastating. At 4-10 and 95 pounds, Henrich was hardly overweight.
Gene theory on eating disorders
A particular gene might make someone more vulnerable to eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia, experts suggest. The new research suggests the gene might make the brain more sensitive to chemicals which regulate appetite and mood. The variant gene has been shown to be twice as common in women suffering from the disorder.
Wince, Ballerina, Wince
Among ballerinas, excesses of weight loss and exercise lead to amenorrhea, early osteoporosis, stress fractures, and chronic fatigue syndrome. At about age 35, when gravity begins to reclaim these soaring swans, there's not much left of them besides, skin, bones and bunions.
An American discovers why eating very bad things is very good for you.
My first full-blown dinner in Paris began with thick, creamy slices of homemade foie gras sprinkled with coarse Guerande salt
on toasted poilane bread. Along with several bottles of Bordeaux, the liver was
followed by a truffle-stuffed cheese soufflé littered with peppered chicken
morsels, garlic-butter lamb navarin with black Corsican olives and laurel,
potato gratin dashed with olive oil and crème fraîche, five different kinds of
heavy, thick-rinded pungent cheese served with fresh chestnuts and oak-leaf
salad, and Baba au Rhum. At the end of this meal I remember thinking: I will die
if I keep eating this way. But I will die old and happy.
School taunts cause eating disorders
Children who are teased about their weight at school can develop psychological hang-ups that lead to the
development of eating disorders, researchers say. Psychologists quizzed 450 12-year-olds at a comprehensive school in the north
of England. They found that 12% of girls and 16% of boys were teased for being fat.
Why Young Women Are Prey to Eating Disorders
"Are you pregnant?" the young girl asked me suddenly. Horrified that she had discovered my secret before I'd even had the chance to tell my supervisor, I
answered her with a therapeutic technique designed to keep the focus on the patient. "Well, that's an interesting question," I commented, noting the five pairs of adolescent female eyes scrutinizing my torso. "What thoughts do you have about that?"
Moms
and Daughters and Puberty
Beginning at puberty, "studies show that girls shut down in a lot of ways.
They stop raising their hands in school." They become
self-conscious, obsessive about the way they look, and vulnerable to developing
eating disorders, such as anorexia, bulimia and obesity.
"More and more girls are commenting on the fact that boys beginning in sixth
grade are making them feel weird or uncomfortable about their
bodies."
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