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News Articles About Eating Disorders
Athletes face dental danger
Athletes may risk losing their teeth because they eat healthy diets packed with carbohydrates, fruit and energy drinks, dentists have warned. Dental erosion can also be caused by eating disorders - to which athletes are more prone than the general population - when stomach acids are brought up during enforced vomiting.
Media exaggerates girls' low self-esteem
Reports in the popular press of low self-esteem among adolescent girls are greatly exaggerated, according to an analysis involving over 150,000 individuals. "Males score higher on standard measures of global self-esteem than females, but the difference is small," report Kristen Kling and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Goal-oriented personality aids bulimia recovery
Women with focused, goal-oriented personalities are most likely to make a
rapid, sustained recovery from bulimia after entering psychotherapy, according to researchers.
"Many of these women reported a rapid decrease in binging and purging after their first contact with the
treatment program," report a team of U.S. and New Zealand researchers led by Dr. Cynthia Bulik of
Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.
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