Self-feeding is a method that help be indifferent to controlling food or weight, or of decreasing binges and thus self-feeding restores biological hunger and appetite signals and reduce anxiety and feelings of guilt about food. With this method, patients are trained or made to perform feeding in a mechanical way, aiming at just taking all …
According to a latest study the male sex hormone testosterone has shown signs that it can prevent eating disorders. The research conducted by the Michigan University shows possibilities that biological factors could play vital roles in eating disorders not just social influences. Based on the six-year study conducted on 538 set of twins they found …
Studies have shown that while college students are one of the groups that are most prone to developing an eating disorder, they’re surprisingly also some of the least educated when it comes to identifying the signs of eating disorders. The study, done by Ashlee Hoffman, a University of Cincinnati doctoral student, observed disordered eating in …
In a recent article in the New York Times, Dr. Donald Levin, a psychiatrist in Pennsylvania talks about his changing practice. When he started practicing psychiatry, he reated 50 to 60 patients in once- or twice-weekly talk-therapy sessions of 45 minutes each. Now, like many of his peers, he treats 1,200 people in mostly 15-minute …
Today we are smart. We are astute consumers with healthy buying capacity and easy access to malls/hypermarkets with world-class gourmet. We go all out to buy the organic, exotic and even farm-fresh food items with the best intentions for our family’s health. And then we coax the fussy kids or reluctant husband into eating the …
Birmingham, AL, April 08, 2011 –(PR.com)– For the second year in a row, Magnolia Creek Treatment Center for Eating Disorders is providing a comprehensive eating disorder treatment to those most in need through partnership with the Manna Scholarship Fund. Together, Manna and Magnolia Creek will award 90 days worth of treatment to a qualified, needy …
National Eating Disorder Awareness Week is a week when everyone in the eating disorderrecovery community partners up to spread awareness. This year, an overwhelming about of awareness was spread by activists, those in recovery and even celebrity’s! Demi Lovatto, singer, actress and former Disney star who is in recovery for her eating disorder sent out …
The biggest part of self help for eating disorders is seeking help. Recognizing the problem oneself and changing to a healthy lifestyle is the best thing that a patient can do to overcome an eating disorder. Other self help methods to overcome eating disorders are to learn from various resources available in libraries and online. …
There is so much I would like to share with the world about anorexia from the perspective of one who feels its torment on a daily basis. Here is an issue I find especially intriguing and, of course, complex: family. It’s so simple to blame your mother, your step-family, your over-achieving brother or your star …
For eating disorders, some psychological and medicinal treatments are effective. Treating Anorexia Nervosa (a type of eating disorder developing from lack of food taking) involves three components: 1. restoring the person to a healthy weight; 2. treating the psychological issues related to the eating disorder; and 3. reducing or eliminating behaviors or thoughts that lead …
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