A team of American psychologists and neuroscientists have found that adult brain volume (grey matter volume), which can be reduced by anorexia nervosa, can be regained. The research showed that the damage caused by anorexia can be reversed when the patient fully recovers from the anorexia nervosa and is eating properly again. Anorexia & the …
Polyethylene glycol electrolyte solution is a laxative solution that increases the amount of water in the intestinal tract to stimulate bowel movements. This medication also contains potassium, sodium, and other minerals to replace electrolytes that are passed from the body in the stool. Anorexia and Bulimia This solution is most often used prior to medical …
A new research study due to be published in the October 2011 issue of the journal Appetite confirms that the substitution of commercially produced portion controlled foods for one meal per day, results in reduced caloric intake and a subsequent loss of weight. The researchers wished to examine whether these portion controlled meals were effective …
Researchers at the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have conducted a new research study in which maternal obesity appears to impact the development of the brain in extremely premature babies. The study which is published in the March issue of the journal Pediatrics, followed 921 babies born before 28 weeks of gestation at a lower-than-normal …
Fat bodies are being stigmatized globally even in countries that have appreciated and valued large bodies for centuries. In past studies larger bodies have not only been appreciated in some countries but the person was seen as generous, beautiful, successful, fertile and wealthy. Now, these countries have taken on the Western world views of a …
The was survey conducted at British Universities by Dr Phillippa Diedrichs. The survey results were rather unnerving the college age women in the survey were willing to give up everything between giving up ten years of their life to a year’s salary. The Statistics of the Survey Thirty percent of the three hundred and twenty …
A new Canadian research study has examined the effects of deleting 2 muscle genes in mice. These same mice that could usually be observed actively running about 8 kilometres per day on a wheel appeared instead to be tired and lethargic. The researchers determined that there was a 90 to 95 percent drop in their …
According to a recent study at the University of Alabama, those with abdominal obesity may benefit from growth hormone replacement. Those who struggle with obesity often have a reduced level of growth hormone. This makes obese woman more apt to have osteoporosis. The study was done at the Birmingham campus of the college and spanned …
“New research provides evidence of the vicious cycle created when an obese individual overeats to compensate for reduced pleasure from food. Obese individuals have fewer pleasure receptors and overeat to compensate,” according to a study by University of Texas at Austin senior research fellow and Oregon Research Institute senior scientist Eric Stice and his colleagues. …
Research as shown more than once that eating disorders could be genetically linked to the suffer’s mother. When a person thinks of genetics, we automatically assume it is wired into our DNA. However, there is another type of “genetic link” that link is produced by learned behavior. Children and teens are extremely impressionable we all …
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