Binge eating is really something that can be controlled (09/01/2011)
(...) Performs this seem like you? You skip breakfast since you are running late for work. You've got a couple of work that continues to be mounting up, which means you skip lunch. Instead you've got a mug of coffee plus some snack crackers. (...)

Fight food addiction with a healthy diet (09/01/2011)
(...) There are lots of things that might come in your method of knowing if you really are a food addict. You may be depressed or in a difficult volitile manner that will tarnish your capability to see what's going on. During a period of time, you'll be able to inform if you come with an eating problem. (...)

Athletes too are at risk of developing eating disorders such as anorexia (01/18/2011)
(...) Anorexia nervosa is characterized by the loss of 15% or more of body weight. Weight is lost by restricting food intake and using behaviors such as vomiting after eating, abuse of laxatives, and excessive exercise to eliminate or use up calories. People with anorexia are generally very secretive about their eating behaviors. (...)

Most common methods used in the treatment of eating disorders (09/30/2010)
(...) First level of treatment: Outpatient psychotherapy Seeing a therapist in his or her office once or twice a week, as part of individual or group treatment, and perhaps including couples or family treatment. Most people can be successfully treated at this least-intensive level of treatment. Second level of treatment: Day treatment programs For people who continue with symptoms in spite of outpatient treatment. (...)

Group and family therapy helps with eating disorders (09/30/2010)
(...) Support groups provide safe environments for exploring recovery issues. Support groups have the advantage of being inexpensive (often free), and a well-run group offers a healthy community. But to be both effective and safe they need to be professionally run and connected to a clinical treatment program as needed. (...)

Eating disorder treatment signs of recovery (09/30/2010)
(...) Bulimia is somewhat easier to treat successfully than anorexia. For anorexia, success may be measured by the maintenance of 95 percent of normal weight for a specific length of time, but it's also something that a person may need to be aware of for the long term. Some studies indicate that as few as 50 percent of anorexia patients recover. (...)

Eating disorders are treatable and long term recovery is reality (09/30/2010)
(...) ' It is easier to think about eating, not eating, eating too much, how many calories we just had or will avoid . . . (...)

Health insurance might not cover the entire eating disorder treatment (09/30/2010)
(...) Often a private health insurer or Medicaid will identify someone, frequently a nurse-practitioner, to coordinate or "manage" the care provided. It is very important to know who that person is and to communicate with her directly. Care managers also may be used to track whether a patient is moving through levels of care. (...)

Diagnosis of an eating disorder and what this means (09/28/2010)
(...) If you have a good relationship with your physician, that's a good place to start, but sometimes it takes a while to come clean with someone you may not have been completely honest with. And sometimes your doctor may not be enough of an expert in the specialized diagnosis you need. You can call a local hospital for a list - and doing that by phone protects your privacy. (...)

Physical consequences of eating disorders may be irreversible (09/28/2010)
(...) Her muscles atrophy or waste away, resulting in weakness and loss of muscle function. When a young, growing body has to deal with these kind of ongoing physical threats, it can't develop properly. Brain damage Starvation can lead to poor brain function, which muddles thinking and makes dealing with the facts that much more of a challenge. (...)

Dangerous substances people with eating disorders abuse of (09/28/2010)
(...) They fail to absorb important vitamins. Diarrhea may cause electrolyte imbalances. Potassium, magnesium, and other electrolytes are lost, causing arrhythmias, muscle cramps, or seizures. (...)

How to see the signs of an eating disorder (09/28/2010)
(...) Each type illustrates an unhealthy approach to nourishing the body. There are different levels of dieting, from casual to obsessive. For example, the "chronic dieter" keeps careful track of foods selected from a limited list, focusing on those that will help "lose weight" and avoiding those that might cause weight gain. (...)

Physical and psychological evidences of an eating disorder (09/28/2010)
(...) But an unusual obsession with the teeth can be a sign of some kind of food compulsion. Poor teeth, isolation, carefully managed eating, a certain sense of being better than other people: These are the kind of clues that call attention to an eating disorder. Personality traits People with eating disorders show some characteristic personality styles and behaviors. (...)

How to recognize someone with anorexia or bulimia (09/26/2010)
(...) One sign of unhealthily low weight or excessive exercise in women is amenorrhea - the absence of at least three consecutive menstrual cycles. Those with this disorder suffer an intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, even if considered underweight. They also commonly experience distortion of body image, excess focus on body shape, or denial of low-weight problem; low self-esteem; and fear of losing control in many areas of daily living. (...)

What is EDNOS and disordered eating (09/26/2010)
(...) Disordered eating may begin as a way to lose a few pounds or get in shape, but these behaviors can get out of control, become obsessions, and may even turn into an eating disorder. When you see someone who seems to pay too much attention to weighing, calorie-counting, or exercise, he or she may be dealing with disordered eating - and missing out on some of the more satisfying parts of life. Do any of those descriptions sound familiar? Eating-disorder specialists point out that focusing on a specific diagnosis can be misleading - it's too easy to think, "Well, I don't have that one symptom . (...)

Eating disorders family background and psychological factors (09/26/2010)
(...) If your dad makes disparaging comments about your chubby cheeks, you might want to get rid of them, to please him, or you might want to get chubbier, to make him mad. A boy who's expected to be the "man of the family" might feel he needs to eat a lot to be large enough for that role - or might eat less because he's not ready for the role. What are the food facts of your family? If you feel that you're making eating decisions in overreaction to family patterns, you might want to take a look at how your emotions may lead to unhealthy eating habits. (...)

How do anorexia and bulimia feel like (09/26/2010)
(...) More typical is the young woman who started dieting around the age of 11 after being teased for being pudgy. She had blamed herself for her father's leaving home and was still struggling to "fix it." This began a long series of struggles with dieting, bingeing and purging, and disordered eating. (...)

Bulimia may lead to infertility or even an unplanned pregnancy (09/16/2010)
(...) But, unlike women with anorexia, women with bulimia may lose their periods only some of the time. When they are eating, their monthly cycles may resume, leading to unpredictable cycles. Add to this another characteristic of bulimia: women with the disorder often have overactive sex drives. (...)

An eating disorder affects pregnancy in different ways (09/16/2010)
(...) But the animal studies do add to an overall message: what a pregnant woman does to her body affects the metabolism of her child, perhaps for life. With this in mind, consider the possible impact on the fetus from a condition known as "hyperemesis gravidarum," characterized by excessive nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. Women with this condition are usually hospitalized for dehydration, electrolyte imbalances, or worse. (...)

Osteoporosis is a complication of anorexia and bulimia (09/16/2010)
(...) Adolescence marks the peak; the body lays down and stores up the remaining 45 percent of bone mineral. After menopause, a woman can only maintain or lose the bone density she has. If a woman had anorexia or some form of bulimia during puberty or adolescence, she did not acquire the necessary bone density that she should have. (...)

Brain changes and mood disorders are complication of all eating disorders (09/16/2010)
(...) "Hunger," in biochemical language, is nerve cells reacting to ghrelin by releasing transmitting molecules that stimulate the appetite centers of the brain. Your body is feeling the urge to eat. If you eat, your intestinal tract will be telling your brain, through biochemical feedback mechanisms such as cholecystokinin and glucagon-like peptide-1, to damp down appetite. (...)

Meditation can help you recover from eating disorders (09/16/2010)
(...) Psychologists Jean Kristeller and Ruth Quillan-Wolever, speaking at the Academy of Eating Disorders annual meeting in 2004, discussed the promise of mindfulness meditation as a treatment specifically for eating disorders. And women with bulimia who participated in a six-week clinical trial of guided imagery reduced their bingeing and vomiting, felt better able to comfort themselves, and improved their feelings about their bodies and eating. To explore how this works in more detail, psychiatrist Thawatchai Krisanaprakornkit, who runs the Meditation Therapy Clinic at Khon Kaen University in Thailand, offers an eight-step program. (...)

Dieting may trigger dangerous eating disorders (09/12/2010)
(...) The experiment began with the participants eating normally for three months. Then the subjects' normal caloric intake was cut in half. Not surprisingly, over the next twenty-four weeks, the subjects became utterly obsessed with food, talking, fantasizing, and dreaming about it. (...)

Eating disorders do not allow you to love your body (09/12/2010)
(...) Preoccupation is normal. In fact, an adolescent girl can use it to her advantage. If she can accept her physical self as a gift and create her own ideal for herself, she will reach adulthood having redefined physical beauty on her own terms. (...)

How to talk to teens with eating disorders (09/12/2010)
(...) One event, one offhand comment, becomes a prognosis, good or bad. If she fails one test, then from now on she will fail every test. In fact, she now deems herself a total failure after one bad test score. (...)

Recover from an eating disorder by knowing your inner self (09/12/2010)
(...) She may even try religious exploration, embracing the practices of her family; or she may rebel and seek belonging in an alternative cultlike group. But problems can emerge if an individual overidentifies with any particular group. A vulnerable teen, one prone to an eating disorder, tends to conform at the expense of her own internal self. (...)

Girls mastering their environments beat eating disorders (09/12/2010)
(...) A girl may cry but not lash out. And the culture frowns upon her sexual self. She may bleach her hair blonde and sway her hips cutely, but what would happen if she wanted to discuss a subject such as masturbation, which is taboo in the cultural mainstream? Our culture limits her academic self. (...)

How eating disorders affect couples (09/12/2010)
(...) If together they can do this, the couple has a chance not only to survive but also to thrive in a new relationship built on true intimacy. Her perspective A woman with an eating disorder, one who is partially recovered or perhaps on the brink of healing, comes to a relationship in an adolescent phase of her psychological development. She is weighing the prospect of a partner, not yet having realized her true self. (...)

Some girls with eating disorders see their partners as their parents (09/12/2010)
(...) It asserts that in times of threat, infants will want to be close to their parents, physically and psychologically. If the parents respond adequately, the infant carries a sense of security into her adolescence and adulthood. That sense of safety will guide her future relationships. (...)

Recover from eating disorders by being honest with yourself (09/11/2010)
(...) Don’t manipulate or play games. Be upfront and truthful. Remember that a lie by omission is still a lie. (...)

Eating disorders must not control your life (09/11/2010)
(...) Have the courage to believe in yourself. Triumph over eating disorders Sometimes you will see or hear things that may cause you to want to engage in eating-disordered behaviors. It may be anything from seeing a magazine ad to hearing comments made by others. (...)