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
An eating disorder is characterised by obsessive thoughts about food and body weight. This includes people who limit the amount of food they eat (Anorexia nervosa), eat lots of food in a very small time and then purge (Bulimia) or overeat often ... [... more]
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Eating disorders - children
Eating disorders can affect children. More than half of Australian primary school age children want to lose weight. Knowing the risk factors and early warning signs in this age group can help to prevent the development of eating disorders. Eating ... [... 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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Kathy Matthews
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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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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Body image issues for men
Body image is how you perceive, think and feel about your body. Poor body image is becoming a male problem too, with around half of all men feeling unhappy with their body shape or size. Poor body image may contribute to eating disorders in ... [... more]
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