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Do you know anything about this topic? Share your expertise with our thousands of visitors each day by submitting your quality, informative 'Eating Disorders' article, and if you become a member we will pay you for your unique and original work (note that all submissions are reviewed by our editors). Recent articles submitted to your independent guide to Eating Disorders 1. Eating Disorders - Whats The Difference? - By: Michael Russell Eating disorders are not due to a failure of will or behaviour, they are in fact a treatable illness. The sad thing about most people suffering from an eating disorder is that it often starts because of peer pressure and trying to look like the models in the magazines. As you may assume, particularl... 2. Coping With Anorexia Nervosa: A Bystander's Guide - By: Michael Russell Anorexia nervosa is a serious and deadly disease. It causes a person to become preoccupied with food, eating habits, body shape and weight. No matter what you may try to say, no matter how many times you reassure them, an anorexia sufferer, or anorectic, will always think he or she is fat, even when... Featured ArticleTrue Anorexia – Bulimia Story: Mom Please Help. Well, I guess it was 11 years ago I started to notice something was not right with Amy. She had just turned 13 when I caught her always looking at herself in the mirror. She would ask me if I thought she put on weight. I told her of course not, she always looked just right for her age. You know, I never even thought anything was wrong I took it as just being a teenage thing and really thought no more about it. I remember myself in those teenage years worrying about my looks and goi ...
Read full story 3. Complex Eating Disorders - By: Michael Russell Anorexia and bulimia are complex eating disorders and different people can develop them for different reasons. Major life changes, family problems, social problems and failure at school can all trigger eating disorders in susceptible individuals. The exact cause of these disorders is not k... 4. True Anorexia – Bulimia Story: Mom Please Help. - By: Irina Webster Well, I guess it was 11 years ago I started to notice something was not right with Amy. She had just turned 13 when I caught her always looking at herself in the mirror. She would ask me if I thought she put on weight. I told her of course not, she always looked just right for her age. br /... 5. The Causes Of Eating Disorders And Their Symptoms - By: Michael Russell Most people perceive people with eating disorders as having an obsession with food. However, this perception is just a myth because the real cause of eating disorders is usually a deeper psychological problem that a person has to deal with. Eating disorders can also occur in people who a... 6. Anorexic Eating Disorders - By: Michael Russell Eating disorders, foremost among them Anorexia Nervosa, afflict upwards of 8 out of every 100,000 people each year; 40% of this statistic is composed of adolescent females between the ages of 15 and 19. An eating disorder is defined as "a complex compulsion to eat in a way which disturbs physi... 7. Easing The Eating Disorder Problem Through Yoga - By: Michael Russell Cases of eating disorders are raving all over the country! At present, there are over 11 million people in the United States alone who are being held in a tight vicious grip by different forms of eating disorders. In fact, it was estimated that at least 10 million women and 1 million men have bee... 8. What You Need To Know About Eating Disorders - By: Michael Russell Eating is vital to our health and who doesn’t love to eat. But sad to say there are many among us who develop eating disorders, most especially the women. An eating disorder can either involve an extreme and unhealthy cutback of food intake or a severe overeating. Influencing factors that push ce... 9. What Causes Eating Disorders? - By: Michael Russell Eating disorders may very well start off as a preoccupation with food and body weight but there is definitely much more to these than just foods. Eating disorders usually are long-standing illnesses, which require long-term treatment and are often accompanied by other psychiatric disorders, su... 10. Facts And Risks Of Eating Disorders In Your Children - By: Michael Russell In today's world, we may think that AIDS is the most prevalent disease. This is not so, individuals suffering from eating disorders are thrice the amount as that of individuals suffering from AIDS. In America, individuals with eating disorders are widespread and of the 10 million w... 11. Eating Disorders – Males Have It Too - By: Michael Russell Men in general are far less likely than women to associate themselves with eating disorders. This in turn causes the ones who are afflicted with the issue to not acknowledge their problem, and therefore be much slower than women to seek treatment. This could be due to many factors, such as denial, e... 12. Information On Eating Disorders - By: Michael Russell Do you love to eat? Hey, don't fret! This is certainly not a habit exclusive to you. Human beings across the globe enjoy eating on a regular basis. Anything from pizza, to Chinese, to the all-American burger is scarfed down at any given minute of the day. Yes indeed, this is not only how we survive,... 13. Eating Disorders - Basic Facts - By: Michael Russell Worried about the reflection that stares back at you whenever you face the mirror? Are you constantly fidgeting whenever you think of the weighing scale? Do you wish your body or a part of your body looked differently? Do you skip meals or constantly count calories whenever you eat... 14. Signs Of An Eating Disorder - By: Michael Russell If you have a teenage child or loved one, chances are you have wondered what the warning signs of an eating disorder may be. Because of the high emphasis our society places on being thin, many teens and adults struggle with having the right body image. Stick thin celebrities do not help with this pr... 15. Eating Disorders - Busting The Myths - By: Michael Russell There are many myths and half-truths surrounding eating disorders. Which of these are true and which are just myths? Listed here are some of the more popular myths about eating disorders. Myth #1. Only teenage girls suffer from eating disorders. For several years, it wa... 16. Eating Disorders And Yoga Therapy - By: Michael Russell More than 10 million women and a million men are affected by eating disorders in the United States alone. Most are teens, and the common illnesses are anorexia and bulimia. Physical factors related to these illnesses have only been recently acknowledged as mental factors that were previously believe... 17. Eating Disorders - Signs Your Daughter Has One - By: Michael Russell Is your daughter looking thinner than usual? Has she been dieting excessively? Does she visit the bathroom immediately after each meal? Does she seem depressed? These could all be signs of an eating disorder. There are three eating disorders that affect men and women. In anorexia... 18. Myths About Eating Disorders - By: Michael Russell Myth: Only females and especially teenaged girls have eating disorders. Eating disorders more often begin during the teenage years and are especially more common in women. However, they do occur in men too and they can occur at any age.Myth: An individual cannot suffer from more than one... 19. Eating Disorders Are An Unsafe Way To Be Thin - By: Michael Russell The two most common types of eating disorders are anorexia and bulimia. These two disorders have similar characteristics so they can be hard to set apart from each other. A person will have a unclear image of his or her body with both and the person will appear to be fixated with what he... 20. Men With Eating Disorders - A Reality? - By: Michael Russell Eating disorders have been commonly thought of as a teenage girl's disease. Even now, many people find it hard to believe that eating disorders can also affect older women and children. But what would you think if somebody told you that even men can be afflicted with the disease? Y... 21. Dangerous Methods Of Weight Loss - By: Michael Russell Some people will do just about anything to lose weight. Eating disorders have become a very common problem in America. The phrase "dying to be thin" has become more of a literal definition of what people suffering from eating disorders are doing to themselves. Today's society puts a lot of pressure ... 22. Eating Disorders In Today's Older Women - By: Michael Russell Contrary to popular belief, eating disorders do not only affect teenage girls. Incidences of eating disorders are now currently on the rise not only in teenage girls, but in older women, in men and in boys, as well. What brought about this change? Aren't teenage girls the only ones... 23. Eating Disorder – A Few Things To Keep In Mind - By: Michael Russell This obsession leads to their health being at risk. Sufferers of eating disorders generally have a tendency to deny they have a problem and treatment is difficult as the first step in treatment is admitting that you have a particular problem. It is imperative that the person with the eat... 24. Eating Disorder- Causes, Manifestations , Consequences - By: Michael Russell The human body functions using a set of inter-connected activities and processes all of which combine together to create the natural rhythms of our day-to-day existence. When this innate balance is disturbed, we experience conditions that are medically described as 'disorders'. When the ... 25. Understanding The Eating Disorder - By: Michael Russell It has swept through the minds of our younger generation. They have stopped asking, “How thin is too thin?” How do we prevent our children from falling to this devastating disease? Firstly, we must understand what is an eating disorder, what are the causes and how do you recognize it. T... Please feel free to submit your quality, informative article for our readers. |