Early this year, TSA began implementing MMW as a primary screening technology next to metal detectors at airports in San Francisco, Miami, Albuquerque, Tulsa, Salt Lake City and Las Vegas. For the first time, some airline passengers will skip metal detectors and instead be screened by body scanning machines that look through clothing for hidden …
Mostly everyone knows about anorexia or bulimia, eating disorders that leads to extreme weight loss but there are also other eating disorders that have an opposite effect and one of this is compulsive overeating. Described as food addiction, people who suffer from compulsive overeating have a deep desire to consume food even when they are …
Some of the most common medical complications of eating disorders are those related to the heart. Cardiac complications from anorexia nervosa, along with suicide, are the leading causes of death from this diagnosis. Cardiac complications are often present with bulimia nervosa as well, and can also be fatal. Cardiac complications from anorexia are sometimes predictable, …
Eating disorders is the combination of long-standing psychological, interpersonal, and social conditions. Common causes of eating disorders are inadequacy, depression, anxiety, and loneliness. To better understand this type of medical condition here are some of its common warning signs. A. Unexplained increase or decrease of weight Someone whose weight increases or decreases without medical explanation …
If you have come across someone who has eating disorder, do you not notice that he has so much in common with somebody who is also addicted to prohibited substances? There are common characteristics of a drug addict and somebody who has eating disorder. Both have cravings, one is craving for the drugs while the …
There is a distinction between ‘Binge Eating’ and ‘Binge Eating Disorder’, which I feel should be considered when seeking a diagnosis, or considering self-diagnosis (which is never recommended). Binge eating is not a common occurence, however, what most may consider ‘overeating’, when they become ‘too full’ may occur with a majority of us. As with …
Sari Fine Shepphird, Ph.D, clinical psychologist and author of 100 Questions & Answers about Anorexia Nervosa, offers these thoughts on children and eating disorders: It is disconcerting indeed that patients with eating disorders are seemingly getting younger. The emphasis on thinness in our culture has only gotten stronger in the past decade. Children are exposed …
A person is raised in a culture that continually tries to mock fat persons. Tabloid headlines in the supermarket scream out actors and actresses battling the bulge. Turning on the television at home display an endless array of products for cellulite reduction, fat burners, and magic machines that can magically change one from an ugly …
Ben Barry didn’t understand why a fellow freshman at his Ottawa high school was having difficulty finding a modeling job. Barry’s friend was pretty, photogenic, and was also a size eight. “She was told that she needed to go down to a size two or at least a four, I looked at her portfolio, and …
If you could do one thing every day that would change your life for the better, what would it be? No more purging? Exercising 30 minutes a day? Stop smoking? There is a nifty new website designed to help us create better lives with new habits. The site is called Habit Forge and the link …
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