1 in 10 Women Suffer From Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are so commonplace in today’s society that when Brittany Murphy (a famous American actress) died, many were quick to assume that her mysterious death was, in part, a result of a possible eating disorder.
Gossip websites were quick to point out previous rumors of drug abuse and anorexia — both of which can contribute [...]
5 Tips Help a Friend With An Eating Disorder:
Whether you are at school or at work, spending a significant amount of time around a friend may cause you to notice certain signals. For example, if your friend is constantly displaying a fear of gaining weight, paying constant attention to food or dieting, binge eating, or acting withdrawn, it would not be much [...]
What are the common eating disorder symptoms?
The misconception about eating disorder symptoms is that the purported weight gain or loss commonly associated with such disorders are present in all cases. The truth is, sufferers of anorexia, bulimia, or any other eating disorder display a varied spectrum of eating disorder symptoms — weight gain or loss being just one of them.
Many [...]
What causes eating disorders?
When a young girl walks through the mall during a busy Christmas shopping time, she is exposed to giant posters of skinny models, peers, and underweight mannequins. This exposure can affect the self-esteem and self-confidence of a young, impressionable girl in ways that may cause the onset of dangerous eating disorders.
While environmental and social [...]
5 Physicial Effects of Eating Disorders
Many people, when they hear the term “eating disorder”, will think about the negative social effects that the disorders may bring about. For a teenage girl in high school, an eating disorder can force social withdrawal or depressive symptoms, just to name a few negative mental effects.
For more serious cases of eating disorders, [...]
Shocking Eating Disorder Statistics
The Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness has compiled a list of United States eating disorder statistics that may open a few eyes to the problem that many Americans suffer from. With the research, many misconceptions are proved wrong or inaccurate in some way.
For example, according to the American Journal of Psychiatry, approximately 10 to 15% [...]
3 Main Types of Eating Disorder Treatment
It is estimated that at least 50,000 individuals will die as a direct result of an eating disorder. This sort of statistic is often surprising to the common person, yet is a reality for the 24 million Americans suffering from an eating disorder.
For many of those 24 million Americans, finding an eating disorder treatment [...]
Tips For Helping a Loved One Through Eating Disorder Recovery:
An eating disorder can be extremely debilitating, both physically and mentally. If your friend, family member, or loved one is recovering from an eating disorder, it is important that you maintain your presence in their life; eating disorder recovery is not something that can be accomplished alone.
In addition to requiring your support, your loved [...]
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Eating Disorders:
Finding information about eating disorders can be pretty simple. The Internet has almost unlimited resources about eating disorders, with information ranging from symptoms to treatment.
However, many of the resources only have general information. Here are 10 things that you probably did not know about eating disorders:
1. The average bulimic binges approximately [...]
5 Creative Ways to Defeat Binge Eating Disorder
Now the most common eating disorder in America, binge eating disorder affects more than 7 million Americans.
Even though binge eating disorder the most common eating disorder in America, very few Americans actually know and understand much about this disorder. The official definition of binge eating disorder is binging that occurs at least 2 time [...]