Recent Eating Disorders Articles page 5

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 ...

Holland Sentinel - Dr. Wallace: My favorite cousin has the eating disorder anorexia nervosa . Our family was shocked. She's a beautiful young woman, a superb competitive swimmer and an honor student. Thank goodness she agreed to seek therapy and is now in a facility ...

Times Online - I suffered with depression in my early teens and I was admitted to an eating disorders clinic for anorexia. I am now 23 and since leaving university and moving home I am now experiencing the depression again. I have lost interest in everything and ...

Herald - These are the ones who start cutting themselves, or develop eating disorders." Sir Jackie Stewart OBE, president of Dyslexia Scotland, helped launch the new booklets at Perth High School yesterday. He said: "I truly hope all teachers will embrace this ...

Akron Beacon Journal - Eating disorders support group 5:30-6:30 p.m., Cleveland Clinic Foundation Specialty Center, 721 E. Milltown Road, Wooster. Free. 330-287-4500. THURSDAY Aquatic exercise 9 and 10 a.m., Motel 6, 3122 Eastpointe Drive, Medina Township. $36, series, $3 ...

PR Newswire - The rates of obesity among African Americans and Hispanic groups in the U.S. tend to be higher than obesity rates among whites," said Adam Gilden Tsai, M.D., Medical Director, Center for Weight and Eating Disorders, at the University of Pennsylvania ...

Boston Globe - Barrett, also an assistant clinical professor at Harvard Medical School, hatched the idea for her book from her clinical work, which has increasingly involved patients hoping to lose weight and those struggling with eating disorders. "When I was doing ...

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - This is one of a series of profiles of volunteers from community service agencies in the Rochester region. If you would like to recommend a volunteer to be profiled, please send contact information and a description of the volunteer's activities to ...

The Independent - Critics say the yawning disparity in sizes fuels women's anxieties and encourage eating disorders, and many women believe manufacturers manipulate sizes to exploit wishful thinking about their body shape and weight. But firms deny that clothes are ...

American Reporter - Her treatment plan included twice weekly visits to her therapist, a weekly out-patient eating disorders group where she met others with the same affliction, meetings with her nutritionist, and even appointments with her psychiatrist. Visits to her ...