Eating disorder

Eating Disorders
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in psychology, disorders in eating patterns that comprise four categories: anorexia nervosa, bulimia, rumination disorder, and pica. Anorexia nervosa is characterized by self-starvation to avoid obesity.
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Eating Disorders - Risk Factors
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Obsessive-compulsive disorder is an anxiety disorder that occurs in up to 69% of patients with anorexia and up to 33% of patients with bulimia.
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Eating disorders are characterized by a preoccupation with weight that results in severe disturbances in eating and other behaviors. Eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder.
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Eating disorders develop as outward signs of inner emotional or psychological problems. They become the way that people cope with difficulties in their life. Eating, or not eating, is used to help block out painful feelings.
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Eating Disorders
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Eating disorders occur most often in industrialized cultures where there is an emphasis on thinness, especially if thinness is linked to success.
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Eating disorders
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For some of us, being the wrong size or shape leads to behaviour that ruins or even threatens our lives.
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Eating Disorders - Resources
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: Anorexia Nervosa - Resources, Bulimia - Resources, Overeating - Resources, Resources - Eating Disorders
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Eating disorders. Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder (BED) frequently occur in adolescent girls.
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Eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating, affect over five million American women and men. Fifteen percent of young women have substantially disordered attitudes toward eating and eating behaviors.
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An eating disorder manifested primarily by a loss of desire or willingness to eat for a variety of psychological reasons.
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The Eating Disorders Association also offers support and help.
Eating Disorders Association
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Having an eating disorder while you're pregnant can have devastating effects on your child. Although many bulimics do show a temporary improvement in the disorder, pregnancy can worsen the condition for anorexics.
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Food intake and eating disorders - If you eat a lot, especially foods that are high in fat and calories, you can become obese. Obesity also can result from eating disorders, such as night-eating syndrome or a tendency to binge.
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Join a support group (see eating disorders - support group). Many people find it easier to follow a reduction diet and exercise program if they join a group of people with similar problems.
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gourmand syndrome Newly discovered, rare benign eating disorder which has been found to develop in people who have suffered right-sided brain injury or have seizure activity arising from the right hemisphere of the brain.
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BULIMIA NERVOSA - An eating disorder which is characterized by self-induced vomiting after eating.
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OCD is sometimes accompanied by depression, eating disorders, substance abuse disorder, a personality disorder, attention deficit disorder, or another of the anxiety disorders.
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have a family history of anorexia nervosa or other eating disorders
have a family or personal history of mood disorders, such as major depression and bipolar disorder (manic depression), anxiety disorders, ...
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In addition, there may be an eating disorder: The person eats too little (anorexia) or, in some cases, eats too much.
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Women with anorexia nervosa are at increased risk for bone fractures and can develop osteoporosis at a younger age than women without eating disorders.
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Anorexia and bulimia nervosa are the most common serious eating disorders. This article looks at the signs and symptoms, and what can be done to help.
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5. Do you eat a healthy, well-balanced diet? Women who are malnourished or extremely underweight often experience amenorrhea. This occurs often in women with eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia.
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