| Weight Loss Struggle Can Lead to Eating Disorders for Women | | Posted Saturday, January 13, 2007 12:53:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | Chapel Hill — Many people struggle with their weight. For some people, it can become an obsession that leads to life-threatening eating disorders. Nine out of 10 people with eating disorders are women.Tish Lindberg said when she was in the seventh grade, she was a bit overweight and was suddenly self conscious. She said she decided to diet and lose weight, but it became an obsession."I decided I got tired of depriving myself and started eating and throwing up," Lindberg said.Lindberg developed bulimia nervosa. It includes binge eating followed by purging."I'd cook pancakes for several hours, eat them and purge and go back and eat more," she said.Lindberg traces it all back to her father who also had bulimia nervosa. He did not live with her or her mother while she was young, but she remembers visits with him."My dad was very vain.... | |
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| | | Daily buzz | | Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 2:52:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | Oscar De La Hoya is planning another TV appearance, but it won't be on pay-per-view. The boxer will unlace his gloves to guest star on ABC's George Lopez, according to The Hollywood Reporter. De La Hoya, 33, will play a trash-talking doctor in a future episode. The sitcom, starring comedian George Lopez, will premiere its sixth season on Jan. 24. De La Hoya will be his usually punching self on a May 5 HBO pay-per-view fight to defend his junior middleweight championship against welterweight champ "Pretty Boy" Floyd Mayweather Jr. MAIL CARRIERS MAKE 'HARRY POTTER' PLANS Britain's mail service is conferring with retailers and renting out hundreds of extra trucks in anticipation of the launch of the seventh - and final - installment of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.... | |
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| | | Revealed: the children as young as five years old suffering from eating disorders | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 10:54:30 PM by Blog57 Team | | HUNDREDS of children under the age of 13 in the UK are being diagnosed with eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. The first survey of pre-teen eating disorders has revealed that doctors reported 175 cases of children with the conditions during the course of just more than a year. Nearly half of those children were admitted to hospital, with many having to be fed through a nasal tube or treated with drugs to aid their recovery. In one case, a child with an eating disorder died due to kidney failure. While the average age of sufferers was around 11, the youngest case identified in the survey was a boy only five years old. The number of people suffering from an eating disorder has increased dramatically over the past two decades, with an estimated 1.1 million people in the UK now suffering from conditions such as anorexia or bulimia.... | |
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| | | Eating Disorders :: Eating Disorders Organization Calls on ... | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 2:26:32 AM by Blog57 Team | | The Academy for Eating Disorders (AED) has drafted the Worldwide Charter for Action on Eating Disorders, an international bill of rights for people with eating disorders and their families, that seeks an end to discrimination against people with eating disorders by insurance and treatment providers. .... | |
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| | | Families say insurers didn't properly cover eating disorders | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 11:05:45 PM by Blog57 Team | | Two New Jersey families claim health insurance companies failed to properly cover the costs of treating their daughters' eating disorders. Their lawsuits, filed in U.S. District Court in Newark, seek compensation for themselves and thousands of other subscribers, which could total millions of dollars. At issue is the position by the insurers that conditions such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia are not "biologically based mental illnesses," said the lawyer for the families, David A. Mazie. As a result, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and Aetna Inc. have denied or reduced coverage for the care and treatment of victims, Mazie said. Newark-based Horizon, the state's largest health insurer with 3.2 million subscribers, was sued Wednesday by Dawn Beye, of Wayne, on behalf of her daughter and others in a similar situation.... | |
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| | | Stanford researchers go online to fight eating disorders | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 6:58:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | THE PROGRAMS have catchy names like "Food, Mood and Attitude" and "Full of Ourselves" and an ambitious goal: Prevent adolescent eating disorders, which tend to be chronic, hard to treat and sometimes fatal. But do they work? In the case of one such program ? "Student Bodies," developed by researchers at Stanford University ? a recently published study suggests the answer is yes. Stanford researchers, who followed 480 female California college students for up to two years, report the eight-week Internet-based program reduced the development of eating disorders in women at high risk. "This study shows that innovative intervention can work," said Thomas Insel, director of the National Insitute of Mental Health, which funded the study; its findings appeared in the August issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.... | |
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| | | Expert to tackle Ulster's crisis on eating disorders | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 3:09:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | A former anorexia patient from England is set to tackle Northern Ireland's eating disorder facility crisis by holding weekly clinics for sufferers here. Anna Auty, who runs a service in Bath, will travel to the province next month. The qualified psychologist who once battled the condition, said she was helping fill a void in services for those crying out for help. It follows recent reports highlighting Northern Ireland's lack of facilities for those with a range of eating disorders. Last week, the family of Lauren Martin (17), a severely anorexic Co Down teenager, spoke of their frustration at the length of time it took hospital authorities to send a psychiatrist to assess her. And DUP MP Iris Robinson has discussed the issue with Health Minister Paul Goggins.... | |
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| | | Leslie Goldman: Grande Americano with an extra shot of body image? | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:01:37 AM by Blog57 Team | | I was sitting in my local Starbucks over the weekend, writing a speech about eating disorders and body image for an upcoming book tour, when I happened to glance at my paper cup. Typically I pay no attention, but peeking above the brown recycled sleeve was quote #175, and the eye-catching words, "The world would be a boring place if everyone was a size 2." I'll let the irony speak for itself (me, a body image specialist; my cup, emblazoned with the following saying): .... | |
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| | | Further Evidence That Moderate Drinking Reduces Men's Heart Attack Risk | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 6:54:52 AM by Blog57 Team | | Even as studies have consistently found an association between moderate alcohol consumption and reduced heart attack risk in men, an important question has persisted: What if the men who drank in moderation were the same individuals who maintained good eating habits, didn't smoke, exercised and watched their weight? How would you know that their reduced risk of myocardial infarction wasn't the result of one or more of these other healthy habits? .... | |
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| | | Winehouse Admits Eating Disorders | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 6:54:20 AM by Blog57 Team | | British jazz singer AMY WINEHOUSE has confessed to suffering from a host of eating disorders since finding fame in her homeland in 2004. The 23-year-old's weight came under scrutiny after she was photographed earlier this year (06) looking extremely gaunt - a stark contrast to her normally curvy appearance. Winehouse insists she is recovering from the disorders, but still suffers from insecurity. She says, "I went through every eating disorder you can have. A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. "I'm not totally OK now but I don't think any woman is." 20/10/2006 17:01 .... | |
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