Dealing with a breakup can be emotionally challenging, but it may also trigger the urge to soothe uncomfortable feelings with food. When you’re in the process of moving on from a relationship, here are a few strategies to help you prevent emotional eating and stay grounded in a routine of self-care: 1. Stay active. Your …
Pro-Ana weight loss is a word used to define the conviction that anorexia and/or bulimia are a lifestyle choice, rather than a type of mental illness. Weight loss plans linked with this movement are extremely dangerous and may include techniques such as starvation, binging and purging, and excessive exercise. The health risks associated with Pro-Ana …
The term “thinspiration,” or “thinspo,” is widely becoming more popular in niche populations of young girls whose deadly obsessions with body and weight have taken over nearly every aspect of their lives. Described as promoting images and videos of thin, often starving women as attractive, thinspiration is continuing to push its way into mainstream culture. …
6 months before her wedding, one young woman decided to forego mirrors for a full year in order to avoid relapsing into an eating disorder that plagued her college years. Kjerstin Gruys, sociology Ph. D candidate at UCLA, has titled her blog “Mirror, Mirror… OFF the Wall” and hopes to break her bad habit of …
Surgery for weight loss, also called bariatric surgery, has one primary aim – to reduce the amount of calories a patient can absorb, causing weight loss. This is done in one of two main ways. The first is primarily by limiting the size of the stomach, so that less food can be consumed at any …
There’s a natural dilemma when it comes to talking to parents about an eating disorder. On the one hand, they represent the best resource to get help and they can offer the most powerful support. On the other hand, an eating disorder is embarrassing – it feels like the furthest thing from making your parents …
It can be difficult to spot an eating disorder in a teenager. This is partly because there may be little interaction at meal times and because changes in eating behavior might seem like just another one of those “phases.” However, serious eating disorders often arise during the teen years, just as our young people are …
A binge eating disorder is thought to be a consequence of an emotional or mental condition, rather than the result of a physical disease. This means that medications to treat binge eating are used to treat the underlying condition, rather than the eating behavior directly. The primary treatment is still “talk therapy” which attempts to …
Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, has been under the media spotlight ever since her engagement with Prince William of England was made public. While most press applaud her beauty, grace, and lack of public scandals (unlike her brother-in-law, Prince Harry), some news sources have attacked Kate for being “too thin” to be a role model. …
The media often portrays anorexia and bulimia as part of vanity, an obsession with beauty, or an aspiration to be fashionable. While all these may trigger an eating disorder, environmental factors are actually far less to blame than people think. A study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry found that about 60% of a …
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