Eating Disorders: Articles - Page 1
Eating Disorder Education: Benefits for Parents and Teens -- Sometimes parents are afraid that educational materials about eating disorders will stimulate an eating disorder in their teenager. Parents also fear such material will encourage a teenager with an eating disorder to try new and different methods of acting out the illness.
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For Teens: When You Discover a Friend is Bulimic or Anorexic -- Learning your friend suffers with an eating disorder can shatter what you believed was an accurate picture of a normal and healthy relationship. You may be jolted into realizing that your understanding of the world around you is incomplete. People you know, perhaps close friends, can be in danger.
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Binge Eating Disorder -- Kids are always rooting around in the kitchen, especially during the teen years. They grab a handful of cookies here, a bag of chips there. They're growing like weeds, of course, so you figure all that eating is OK. Most of the time it is.
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Bulimia, Anorexia and Compulsive Overeating: When Family and Friends Don't Get It -- Often a person with an eating disorder covers her pain so well that when she tells the truth about her suffering, people don't believe her. They think she is exaggerating, overreacting or in a mood that will pass.
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Body Image -- Each day, we are bombarded with messages that tell us our bodies are not good enough. Magazines, television, movies, and advertisements are constantly selling us unreal, air-brushed images of girls and women we are supposed to emulate. Let’s throw out those make-believe messages and talk about reality.
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Society+Models=Eating Disorders -- Fitting in at school is always a huge concern while we're teenagers. But sometimes that small concern can become a serious matter. Many teenagers have a distorted image of what the perfect body is. And some try to achieve that body only to harm themselves in the end.
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Anorexia - a game of control! -- Low self-esteem produces a game of control. It causes a person to suffer in silence – suffering that can lead to anorexia. Do you struggle with painful feelings about yourself, as a person? We can have so much in our western world, but lack the one thing we most desire – acceptance and a feeling of self worth!
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Are You a Binge Eater? -- Bulimia is defined as 2 or more episodes of binge eating (consuming a large amount of food in 2 hours or less) at least twice a week for 3 months. These episodes may be followed by vomiting or purging (with laxatives or diuretics) and may alternate with fasting and compulsive exercising.
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Bulimia Symptoms -- People affected by Bulimia nervosa, usually intake excessive quantity of food; and then try to shed off the extra calories by vomiting, taking enemas, using laxatives or diuretics and other improper means. HOW WILL I KNOW THAT I HAVE BULIMIA?
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