Eating Disorders News
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Eating Disorders Cost Billions in the U.S.
The research team found that there were nearly 54,000 emergency department visits due to eating disorders in fiscal year 2018 to 2019, costing $29 million, and over 23,500 in-patient hospitalizations due to eating disorders, costing $209 million.
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Diet Pill, Laxative Use Often Precedes an Eating Disorder
Among those who initially did not have an eating disorder, 1.8% of those who used diet pills in the past year said they received their first eating disorder diagnosis over the next one to three years, compared to 1% of those who did not use diet pills.
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Many Young Men Putting Health at Risk to Bulk Up
The behaviors, called “disordered eating,” include eating to gain weight and using supplements or anabolic steroids to increase muscle or body size.
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Food Brings Double Dose of Pleasure to Your Brain
It turns out that eating causes the release of dopamine in your brain not once, but twice, German scientists report.
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Many Women With Eating Disorders Do Recover: Study
But it may take years or longer, researchers acknowledge
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Eating Disorders May Start in Elementary School
They're often linked with other mental health issues, researchers say
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Autoimmune Diseases Tied to Eating Disorders
Several autoimmune diseases have been linked to, and may even play a role in the development of, eating disorders, new research suggests.
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Even Normal-Weight Teens Can Have Dangerous Eating Disorders, Study Finds
Researchers saw a nearly 6-fold rise in patients who met all criteria of anorexia except being underweight
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Men With Eating Disorders Often Ignore Symptoms
British study finds that too many males associate anorexia, bulimia as only a woman's issue
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Brain Stimulation Shows Promise for Eating Disorders
Small study found almost half of those with anorexia, bulimia had symptom relief
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Eating Disorders in Women Over 50
Eating disorders don’t just strike teens. A new survey shows that middle-aged women binge, purge, and engage in extreme exercise and dieting about as often as adolescents do.
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Eating Disorders Affect Fertility, Pregnancy
Women with anorexia or bulimia or a history of eating disorders have more fertility problems, unplanned pregnancies, and negative feelings about having a child than women with no such history, a new study from the United Kingdom finds.
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Unhealthy Eating Habits Start Early
Girls and boys who develop unhealthy eating or extreme dieting habits as adolescents are likely to carry those potentially dangerous weight control practices into adulthood.
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Study: Eating Disorders in Teens Are Common
Eating disorders in teens are common, often occur with other psychiatric problems including suicidal thoughts, and don't just affect girls, according to a new study.
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Eating Disorders on the Rise in Children
Doctors should be aware that eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia are increasing rapidly in children and adolescents and thus should be on the lookout for signs of problems in their young patients, a new report says.
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Eating Disorder Sites: Harmful Tips
Teens with eating disorders are picking up dangerous tips from both pro-eating-disorder web sites and sites designed to help treat the problem -- but their parents are reluctant to deal with the issue.
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Hair May Help Reveal Eating Disorders
Eating disorders such as anorexia may leave telltale signs in the hair.
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'Accept' Body to Fight Eating Disorder
Teaching women to accept and trust their bodies may be the key to treating eating disorders, Ohio State psychologists find.
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Eating Disorders May Run in Families
The eating disorders anorexia and binge eating may run in families, according to two new studies.
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More Men Developing Eating Disorders
More and more men are feeling the pressure to be thin and look good, according to a presentation at the American Dietetic Association Food and Nutrition Conference in St. Louis.
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Brain Chemical May Be Key in Eating Disorders
There is increasing evidence that chemical abnormalities within the brain make some women more vulnerable to eating disorders and anxiety disorders.
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Eating Disorder Web Sites May Sway Teens
Many teens with eating disorders visit web sites promoting eating disorders, and they often adopt dangerous diet practices as a result, a new study shows.
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Eating Disorder Underlies Schiavo Tragedy
Court documents state - and medical records suggest - that the then-26-year-old Terri Schiavo suffered from bulimia, an eating disorder. How can we recognize bulimia in our own loved ones?
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Family Meals Help Prevent Eating Disorders
Researchers say restoring regular family meals could help teenage girls avoid dangerous eating disorders.
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Mary-Kate Olsen Reportedly Fights Eating Disorder
Mary-Kate Olsen -- who with her twin, Ashley, is one of the world's two most-celebrated and successful teens -- reportedly is being treated for an eating disorder. She is not alone.
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