Eating DisordersRelated Category:
Pathologyin
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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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.
Full article >>>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.
Full article >>>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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Full article >>>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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For some of us, being the wrong size or shape leads to behaviour that ruins or even threatens our lives.
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Anorexia Nervosa - Resources,
Bulimia - Resources, Overeating - Resources, Resources -
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Full article >>>Eating disorders.
Anorexia nervosa,
bulimia nervosa, and
binge eating disorder (BED) frequently occur in adolescent girls.
Full article >>>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.
Full article >>>An
eating disorder manifested primarily by a loss of desire or willingness to eat for a variety of psychological reasons.
anosmiaLoss of the sense of
smell.
Full article >>>The
Eating Disorders Association also offers support and help.
Eating Disorders Association
First Floor
Wensom House
103 Prince of Wales Road
Norwich
NR3 1DW ...
Full article >>>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.
Full article >>>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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Full article >>>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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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.
Full article >>>BULIMIA NERVOSA - An
eating disorder which is characterized by self-induced
vomiting after eating.
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Full article >>>OCD is sometimes accompanied by
depression,
eating disorders,
substance abuse disorder, a personality disorder,
attention deficit disorder, or another of the
anxiety disorders.
Full article >>>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, ...
Full article >>>In addition, there may be an
eating disorder: The person eats too little (
anorexia) or, in some cases, eats too much.
Zinc deficiency can reduce
appetite, and so can some wasting
diseases, such as
cancer.
Full article >>>Women with
anorexia nervosa are at increased risk for bone
fractures and can develop
osteoporosis at a younger age than women without
eating disorders.
Full article >>>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.
Full article >>>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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