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• in Lifestyle
  Dangers of Eating Disorders Among Students
  New research shows students are increasingly suffering from eating disorders.
  by lifeworkscommunity1 / on Nov 3, 2012
• in Lifestyle
  Elderly Brits Struggle with Eating Disorders
  The elderly in Britain are struggling with eating disorders
  by lifeworkscommunity1 / on Jun 20, 2012
• in Technorati Women
  Can't Be Too Rich or Too Thin: Desperate Housewives Syndrome Now in Australia
  Middle Aged Eating Disorders Influenced by Shows Like Desperate Housewives, Australian Study Says
  by goldensylph / on Jun 4, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “eating disorders”

 

• Books on Culture: The Life of the Body, Week Three

  
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  She’s only a girl—a girl with fire engine red hair and a thousand freckles. She limps on shrunken legs across the commons room and slides weakly into a chair at a glass table. Glancing around the room, she looks at those of us in scrubs like she’s figuring an escape route and when her eyes land on me, I notice ...
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• Food Insanity – A new kind of eating disorder?

  
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  As I battle through the last two days of my Low-Iodine diet , I have lost myself. I have lost myself to a full-blown food insanity. I found myself sobbing yesterday, as I prepared my daughter some buttery toast for breakfast. If somebody walked in front of me, right now, with a bacon and egg sandwich, I am pretty ...
  4 days ago

• Allure, Disney Remind Us We’re Not Thin Enough

  
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  Is it any wonder that in the United States approximately 20 million women suffer from an eating disorder at some time in their life? Or that “by age 6, girls especially start to express concerns about their own weight or shape.” Up to sixty percent of elementary school girls are concerned about becoming too fat. ...
  4 days ago

• Sexual Harassment Linked To Eating Disorder In Men

  
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  Men who experience high levels of sexual harassment are much more likely than women to induce vomiting and take laxatives and diuretics in an attempt to control their weight, according to a surprising finding by Michigan State University researchers. Their study is one of the first to examine the effects of sexual ...
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• Nobody Likes a ‘Fat-Talker’

  
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  Women who engage in “fat talk” — self-disparaging remarks made in relation to eating, exercise or their bodies — are less liked by their peers, according to a new study. In the University of Notre Dame study, college-age women were presented with a series of photos of either noticeably thin or noticeably ...
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• Results Improved For Those With Persistent Anorexia By Rethinking Treatment Goals

  
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  A new, multinational randomized clinical trial has found that patients with severe and enduring anorexia nervosa will not only stick with treatments but also make significant improvements with just a slight modification of the standard goals and methods of treatment. More than 85 percent of those who enrolled in the ...
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• Know Some of the Causes of Eating Disorders

  
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  Eating disorders can affect the health of a person. The alternative names for the disease are anorexia, binge eating, and bulimia. There can be a number of reasons that trigger eating disorders. They can be mental, psychological, or simply due to irregular appetite. No particular cause has yet been found that leads to ...
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• Shift in Goals Improves Treatment for Severe Anorexia

  
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  A new clinical trial has found that focusing on quality of life and enhanced social adjustment, rather than weight gain, improved results for patients with severe and enduring anorexia nervosa. Researchers report that more than 85 percent of patients enrolled in the trial completed treatment, which is almost three ...
  2 weeks ago

• Plus-Size Problems

  
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  From H&M to New Look, so many high street stores now have a plus-size range suitable for shapelier shoppers. Is the industry moving away from the celebration of size zero models.
  2 weeks ago

• Wanting it, badly

  
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  Today the front page of the New Zealand news site Stuff tastelessly juxtaposes a tale of a model who almost died from an eating disorder, with a list of 5 reasons youre not losing weight.  The last of which is " you dont want it badly enough ".
  2 weeks ago

• Recovery: Letting Go Of What Was

  
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  Recovery is the process of letting go of what was in order to create what will be.MrsM
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• Lisa Allen and Me on Kansas Citys Up to Date

  
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  Podcast is here -- talking all about Listen to Your Mother! 
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• The Rest of the Story on the Natural Cure for Obesity

  
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  Often in the media and as The First lady of The United States, Michelle Obama, says in her campaign to cure the obesity problems of children and adults: exercise more and change your eating habits, then the weight comes off. I agree with these views for they do have much validity in the necessary equation to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Running Buddies: When Midlife Women Exercise in Public

  
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  A gal of a certain age and body and mind should be free to exercise in public without inspiring public comment. So, public, on behalf of all the midlife women just trying to keep body and soul together, if you see us exercising out there, running, jogging, walking, strolling - and you truly want to support us: Just ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tortured by the Media, Women Cannibalize Themselves

  
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  Lindsay Kite, Co-director of the Beauty Redefined Foundation Source Title: “Curvy is the New Skinny, Thanks to Photoshop Phoniness” Last Modified: 03:45 a.m. EDT, 05 May 2013 The latest trend in image alteration might surprise a few people who are familiar with the power and pervasiveness of the thin ideal. Known ...
  2 weeks ago

• Today There Are Not Only Famous People With Eating Disorders

  
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  Today there are many famous people with eating disorders. Yet when it comes to talking about anorexia one name that is clearly associated with this particular eating disorder is the name of Karen Carpenter. With her brother Richard, Karen was a well renowned and popular singer around the world, who had battled with ...
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• Eating Disorders – A Carer’s Perspective

  
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  Emma and I have just done a seminar at  Bible by the Beach . Emma told some of her story and I spoke about ‘The Big Story’ around pastoral care and addictions as well as ‘The Carer’s Story.’  Here are the notes I was working from: . Christ is our Identity 15 times “in Christ” in Ephesians. ...
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• Your Eating Disorder Makes You A Big Fat Bore [Essay]

  
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  When I first started blogging, I would read “Trigger Warning” and, inevitably, this would happen in my head: I remember, plain as day, when I recognized that “Trigger Warning” was a device meant to protect readers who may be sent into an emotional tailspin over references to sexual assault, abuse, eating ...
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• VIDEO: The Secret of Women Is In Rats

  
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  Michigan State University conducted a study on female rats and found that female rats are six times more likely to binge eat than male rats. This could mean that eating disorders may have a bit more to do with biology and gender than we thought… Thanks for checking us out. Please take a look at the rest ...
  3 weeks ago

• Extreme Body Issues

  
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  I’ve always been self-conscious about my body. When I was 13 I gained a lot of weight and I realized I was getting stretch marks. I didn’t really care back then, but when I turned 17 I noticed that I had stretch marks everywhere. I developed bulimia and anorexia at age 17.I believes I didn’t want to lose weight ...
  3 weeks ago

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