College students beware – there is a new eating disorder trend making its way across campuses – drunkorexia. Officially, this is not a medical term, just slang, but it appears to me an amalgam of anorexia nervosa, bulimia and alcohol abuse. What is drunkorexia? Generally women, usually college-aged, and often binge drinkers, who starve all …
What would it look like if you drew a picture of you? What would your hand drawn image say about who you see yourself to be? A new study says that Women suffering from anorexia or bulimia draw themselves with prominently different characteristics than women who do not have eating disorders and who are considered …
Have you seen pics of Shiloh Pitts? I had to go look her up, not having really noticed who is who among the Pitt-Jolie clan. In case you didn’t know, she has a short cut and wears comfortable clothes – which, to no woman’s surprise, happen to be little boy clothes. But that is enough …
Those of us who have struggled with an eating disorder had no idea what we were in for when we started. When we started, we didn’t anticipate the consequences. Lost friends and broken relationships because our own selfishness and self-absorption left little room for anyone else. We didn’t anticipate the physicial trauma – fromt cutting …
Infertility is a problem that forces people to question every aspect of their lifestyle? One question that bothers many infertile couples is whether a man’s body weight has any affects on his fertility. The answer is, yes it does! Obesity or being overweight is linked to low sperm count and poor quality sperm. The reason …
Going on a diet? Well, make sure you are going to engage in a healthy diet rather than a diet bordering on anorexia. Eating disorders are not the same as going on a diet. In fact, there are several things that differentiate an eating disorder from a healthy diet. For one, the goal of dieting …
Here is a great way to support the National Eating Disorder Assocation – The NEDA Walk, which kicked off as the first annual NEDA Walk during NEDAwareness Week 2009, is a walk-a-thon fundraiser supporting NEDA and a community awareness-raising event. Individuals from across the country are coordinating NEDA Walks in their communities throughout the year. …
It’s an interesting question, and not one I’ve considered before. With the renewed interest in childhood obesity, I can’t help but wonder if some of those messages will end up damaging our kids. The American Academy of Pediatrics is wondering the same thing. In a recent report, the AAP said, “During the past decade, the …
Have you seen the cover of Fitness magazine recently? How about Shape? If you haven’t, good. Don’t go looking for it. The covers seem to be getting worse. It used to be that you could count on a cover pic of an athletic, well-toned woman (not necessarily even famous), but not anymore. These photos look …
When a female patient is diabetic, eating disorders can be extremely harmful. An eating disorder is a psychological problem and not a physiological problem. A female with diabetes sometimes suffers depression and a sense of inferiority because of her condition and this causes eating disorders. She becomes extremely conscious of her physical appearance as a …
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