Eating Disorders Articles page 3

Belfast Telegraph - The inquiry, launched in response to concerns over eating disorders, produced a raft of recommendations last month that aim to improve the health of models. These include banning under-16s from the catwalk and asking models to undergo ...

New York Daily News - Dept. of Health tells us more than 90% of those with eating disorders are female. Dave, an old flame once said to me, "Whatever else, we women are in the Pretty Business first." Is that why anorexia and bulimia are so overwhelmingly a female disorder ...

WOKR 13 - Jen Markham - Anorexia is the third most common chronic illness among adolescents, and experts say competitiveness and pressure to be fit make eating disorders even more common in student athletes. One Webster field hockey star has been battling ...

Canada.com - Fears about obesity are feeding so much "fat phobia" that experts worry of an increase in healthy kids obsessing about weight and more parents projecting irrational fears about fat on their children. Some are questioning whether the obesity "epidemic ...

Earthtimes - Research has shown that kids who believe in themselves do better academically, are better behaved, and are less likely to turn to drugs and alcohol, develop eating disorders, or become pregnant as teenagers.(1) Confident teens develop the mindset ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - With autumn bake sales and Halloween almost upon us, I made a call to Ellyn Satter, a registered dietitian, psychotherapist specializing in eating disorders, and lecturer focusing on what she has coined "feeding dynamics," "eating competence" and ...

News-Medical.Net - ... 12 months, such as depression, specific phobias, somatoform disorders, alcohol- and drug dependence, social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), bipolar disorder, psychotic disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) or eating disorders ...

Sidney Herald - Some fear that steroids may appeal to women and girls susceptible to eating disorders. After all, steroids cause a dramatic “leaning” or loss of body fat. And for more women today, the curvy but muscled look of stars like Madonna is desirable but ...

Forbes - The Addicted.com site itself works to educate visitors via a full slate of professional addiction experts that specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of common addictions including eating disorders, sexual addiction, gambling and drug and alcohol ...

New York Times - And girls who ate with their parents ate more calories — up to 14 percent more, suggesting that dining alone puts girls at higher risk for eating disorders . Boys who didn’t eat with their parents had fewer vegetables and calcium-rich foods than ...