Eating disorders - Better Health Channel.
Eating disorders include anorexia, bulimia nervosa and other binge eating disorders. Eating disorders affect females and males, and can have serious psychological and physical consequences. Family and friends of people with eating disorders may ... [... more]
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Eating disorders
Obsessive thoughts about food and body weight can change eating patterns (dieting, making excuses not to eat, avoidance of social situations involving food, going to the bathroom straight after meals), mood (feeling depressed, irritable or ... [... more]
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Body image issues for men
Body image is how you perceive, think and feel about your body. Men can have a poor body image too. Poor body image may contribute to eating disorders in men. Your body image is what you think you look like. This may have no bearing at all on ... [... more]
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Eating disorders - children
Eating disorders can affect children. Eating disorders are really about feelings and could signal that a child is having emotional, social or developmental difficulties. Knowing the risk factors and early warning signs can help to prevent the ... [... more]
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Physical effects
The words 'eating disorder' have been given a lot of attention in recent years so it is not uncommon for parents to wonder if there is something wrong when they see a change in the behaviour or eating pattern of their child. Teenagers often eat ... [... more]
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Eating Disorders Association of South Australia
Eating disorders are a range of conditions that are related to major emotional problems. Eating disorders occur in both men and women. It is important to be aware of how eating disorders can develop and how to get support or help if you feel you ... [... more]
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What is an eating disorder?
Let's turn it round and ask what is disordered eating? It is when someone feels so unhappy with the way she looks that her whole life becomes centred on food, exercise and body image. Sometimes an eating disorder can be life threatening unless it ... [... more]
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Michele Siegel
Michele Siegel, Ph.D., initiated the idea for this book and was co-founder with Judith Brisman of the Eating Disorder Resource Center. She died in 1993. [... more]
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Michele Siegel
Michele Siegel, Ph.D., initiated the idea for this book and was co-founder with Judith Brisman of the Eating Disorder Resource Center. She died in 1993. [... more]
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Peggy Claude-Pierre
Peggy Claude-Pierre opened her outpatient practice specializing in eating disorders in 1988; the Montreaux Clinic began its residential inpatient program in 1993. Millions have been introduced to Claude-Pierre's gentle yet positive approach to ... [... more]
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Elisabeth Guthrie
In America's hypercompetitive culture, children are being suffocated by our quest to make them the best. As competitive parenting has been on the rise since the 1980s, so have rates of teen suicide, eating disorders, depression, and drug use. Yet ... [... more]
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Kate M. Taylor
Kate Taylor is a culture reporter at the New York Sun; her writing has also appeared in Slate and the New Yorker. She lives in New York. Here, collected for the first time, 19 writers describe their eating disorders from the distance of recovery, ... [... more]
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