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Eating Disorders Blog: Physical Intimacy and Anorexia Nervosa
When a woman or man struggles with anorexia nervosa it can have a wide-range of effects on their romantic relationships. Many individuals diagnosed with anorexia are already in relationships, others...
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Back to School: Do Colleges Create Food Addicts and Trigger Eating Disorders?
Nearly every student going away to college has heard of the infamous, so-called “Freshman 15.” This term came into existence due to incoming freshman’s tendency to gain weight. What is often not...
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Are Mobile Apps Turning Gamers into Food Addicts?
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that food makers are now using mobile apps to target potential consumers, many of whom are children. Snack companies are giving away free games with names like...
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Eating Disorder Articles Show Women with Anorexia Have Brain Differences When...
While there are many different potential causes for anorexia, new research shows that women with the deadly eating disorder show different brain activity than women who do not have anorexia. The...
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Eating Disorder Help: Why We Need to Put an End to Bullying
November 19th-23rd was anti-bullying week. To coincide with anti-bullying week, UK-based eating disorder charity Beat conducted a survey that sought to reveal correlation between eating disorders and...
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Pro-Anorexia Blog: Promotes Starvation Contest
While browsing the web, I came across a blog that was having a “friendly weight loss competition.” I won’t reveal the name of the pro-ana blog, but it was created by a pro-anorexia blogger. These...
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Eating Disorder Symptoms: College Stress and Bulimia Nervosa
Going to college can be an exciting time for young women. Time away from their family gives them a chance to forge an identity that is uniquely their own. College can be a time to make new friends and...
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Eating Disorder (ED) Blog: Seventeen + BMI = Bad Math
When struggling with an eating disorder, numbers can feel like your enemies. It can seem that everywhere you look numbers are taunting you, judging you and diminishing your self-image. Whether it’s...
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Eating Disorders Treatment Options: Focusing on Health
During an interview with iVillage’s Kelly Wallace, First Lady Michelle Obama discussed the topic of body image. It’s my hope that her words will serve to inspire fellow parents to adopt her...
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Beating the Thinspiration Addiction
While certain substances like nicotine and narcotics have physically addictive properties, one can develop a psychological addiction to just about anything. While pro-anorexia sites, that feature...
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Eating Disorder Articles: Book Claims that Fashion Models Eat Kleenex to Stay...
The fashion industry has a reputation for being cutthroat. Any viewing of America’s Next Top Model shows that the pressures and rejection involved in the fashion industry can cause women to tear up....
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Can Food Labels Affect Overeating?
Fast food restaurants often sell foods in different sizes. However, those sizes are rarely standardized. One establishment’s definition of medium might vastly vary from the medium size at a different...
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Food Disorders Treatment Requires More than Rewiring the Brain
Eating disorders are complex and can have many different causes. It’s not uncommon for an individual to have an eating disorder caused by multiple sociological, psychological and physiological factors....
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New Gene Discovery Could Hold Promise for Early Detection of Mental Illness
Mental illnesses, including eating disorders, often don’t surface until the teenage years and show no warning signs that they are going to develop. Parents are typically caught off guard when their...
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Body Image Interventions Should be Focus of Psychotherapy Efforts
Effective treatment for an eating disorder must include a focus on a patient’s body image An effective treatment regimen for any eating disorder must utilize a multi-dimensional approach to wellness....
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This is Your Brain on FOOD! New Research Looks at Brain Responses to Food
Studies have shown that the brain responds to food differently depending on where you may lie on the eating disorder spectrum Countless studies have been conducted over the past few decades that have...
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Attitudes Toward Thinness and Emaciation
Do anorexic individuals see more beauty in emaciated bodies than healthy control individuals do? Those who have been diagnosed with anorexia nervosa tend to have a skewed viewpoint of which body types...
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3 Types of Happy and What They Mean for Eating Disorder Treatment
What are some of the ways we can increase our own happiness? Martin Seligman, positive psychologist, believes that 40% of our happiness is determined by us and us alone. Happiness is often a key...
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“Food Concocting” and Binge Eating Disorder
Recent studies have tied food concocting with binge eating disorders – so what can we learn from this? First off, what exactly is food concocting? It sounds like a fancy way of coming up with unique...
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The Risks of Diet Pill Abuse
Safety We have all seen various diet pills that advertise and promise quick and easy weight loss. The vast majority of these claims are completely false. This does not mean, however, that taking these...
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