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Lifetime Achievement Award For Distinguished Academic Dedicated To Combating Eating Disorders
An acclaimed academic from the University of Leicester is to be honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at an international event recognising his contribution to the study, treatment, education, and administration in the field of eating disorders for over 40 years...
Only The Beautiful Need Apply
New study flags damaging effect of joining a sorority on body image and eating behaviors. Undergraduate women who join a sorority* are more likely to judge their own bodies from an outsider's perspective (known as self-objectification) and display higher levels of bulimic attitudes and behaviors than those who do not take part in the sorority's recruitment process...
Media Harming People's Body Image Say Psychiatrists
UK psychiatrists have announced they are concerned about the harmful influence of the media on people's body image and are calling for a new editorial code to stop the promotion of unhealthily thin bodies and making eating disorders appear glamorous...
Bay Area Eating Disorders Symposium Upcoming At Packard Children's Hospital
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford is gearing up for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Feb. 21 - 27. The hospital's Comprehensive Eating Disorders Program is reaching out to Bay Area families to enhance knowledge of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and related diagnoses. On Feb. 25 at 6:30 p.m...
What Is Malnutrition? What Causes Malnutrition?
Malnutrition is a broad term which refers to both undernutrition (subnutrition) and overnutrition. Individuals are malnourished, or suffer from undernutrition if their diet does not provide them with adequate calories and protein for maintenance and growth, or they cannot fully utilize the food they eat due to illness...
In Fight Against Obesity, Tiny Fruit Fly Could Offer Big Clues
The tiny tongue of a fruit fly could provide big answers to questions about human eating habits, possibly even leading to new ways to treat obesity, according to a study from a team of Texas A&M University researchers...
Anorexics Found To Have Excess Fat -- In Their Bone Marrow
People with anorexia nervosa, paradoxically, have strikingly high levels of fat within their bone marrow, report researchers at Children's Hospital Boston. Their findings, based on MRI imaging of the knees of 20 girls with anorexia and 20 healthy girls of the same age, appear in the February issue of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research...
Mice Overriding Fear Of Pain For Chocolate Fix
Ever get a buzz from eating chocolate? A study published in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience has shown that chocolate-craving mice are ready to tolerate electric shocks to get their fix. Rossella Ventura worked with a team of researchers from the Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy, to study the links between stress and compulsive food-seeking...
Anorexics Found To Have Excess Fat -- In Their Bone Marrow
People with anorexia nervosa, paradoxically, have strikingly high levels of fat within their bone marrow, report researchers at Children's Hospital Boston. Their findings, based on MRI imaging of the knees of 20 girls with anorexia and 20 healthy girls of the same age, appear in the February issue of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research...
Improving The Eating Skills And Nutritional Status Of Older People With Dementia.
The study, which was published in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and funded by the National Health Research Institutes of Taiwan, tested two separate intervention methods to assess the eating patterns of dementia patients in Taiwan. Loss of memory and problems with judgement in dementia patients can cause difficulties in relation to eating and nutrition...
What Is Dysphagia? What Causes Dysphagia?
Dysphagia is a medical term that is used to refer to difficulties with swallowing. The level of dysphagia varies. Some people have problems swallowing certain foods or liquids, while others are completely unable to swallow. It takes more time and effort to move food or liquid from the mouth to the stomach. Difficulty swallowing may also be associated with pain...
10 To 15 Percent Of Women May Be Affected By Disordered Eating
Several maladaptive eating behaviors, beyond anorexia, can affect women. Indeed, some 10 to 15 percent of women have maladaptive eating behaviours and attitudes according to new study from the Université de Montréal and the Douglas Mental Health University Institute published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders...
Researchers Find Clues To Why Some Continue To Eat When Full
The premise that hunger makes food look more appealing is a widely held belief just ask those who cruise grocery store aisles on an empty stomach, only to go home with a full basket and an empty wallet. Prior research studies have suggested that the so-called hunger hormone ghrelin, which the body produces when it's hungry, might act on the brain to trigger this behavior...
In The Obesity Epidemic The Role Of Addiction Cannot Be Ignored
The causes of obesity are complex and individual, but it is clear that chronic overeating plays a fundamental role. But when this behaviour becomes compulsive and out of control, it is often classified as "food addiction" - a label that has generated considerable controversy, according to a McMaster University psychiatrist and obesity researcher. In a commentary appearing in the Dec...
Eating Disorder Organizations Join Forces To Urge Focus On Health And Lifestyle Rather Than Weight
In an unprecedented show of concern, The Academy for Eating Disorders (AED), Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA), Eating Disorder Coalition (EDC), International Association for Eating Disorder Professionals (IADEP), and National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) have joined forces and are urging focus on health and lifestyle rather than weight as a measurement of well-being...
What Is Binge Eating Disorder? What Causes Binge Eating Disorder?
Binge eating disorder typically includes periods of excessive overeating. However, a person with a binge eating disorder does not subsequently induce purging (vomiting), as is the case with bulimia. Binge eating can occur on its own, or alongside other disorders or conditions, such as Prader-Willi disorder, or a lesion of the hypothalamus gland...
NewYork-Presbyterian, Weill Cornell And Columbia University Establish Integrated Eating Disorders Center
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, in affiliation with the New York State Psychiatric Institute, announced the creation of an integrated eating disorders center. Opening today is a key clinical component of this new center -- The Outlook at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Westchester Division in White Plains...
Dietary Management In Eating Disorder Patients
Eating disorder (ED) patients display a high prevalence of gastrointestinal symptoms and functional gastrointestinal disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome. These symptoms may interfere with their nutritional management. Ingestion of fructose-sorbitol (F-S) is an established means of gastrointestinal symptom provocation in irritable bowel syndrome patients...
Dieters Can Experience Neurobiological Similarities Of Drug Addicts And Alcoholics
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have shown that intermittent access to foods rich in fat and sugar induces changes in the brain which are comparable to those observed in drug dependence...
Pinpointing When Rates Of Binge Eating Converge Across Races
Existing research shows that rates of binge eating among adult women is virtually identical across race. However, among college age women, it's a different story: Caucasian women are more apt to exhibit binge eating behaviors than African American women, according to a study presented at this month's annual scientific meeting of the Obesity Society...
Bulimia Nervosa: Is Inpatient Treatment Better Than Day Treatment?
A German study published in the fifth issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics compares the differences between inpatient and day treatment of bulimia nervosa. The Authors reported in detail on the design and 3-month outcome in a previous article and present the results of the 12-month follow-up in this letter...
Bulimia, Binge Eating Respond To Talk Therapy
Although most people with bulimia and binge eating disorders wait many years before seeking help, a new review shows that psychological treatment can make a large difference and that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is the most effective talk therapy for these disorders...
Adventure Therapy Key In Battle Against Disordered Eating
By raising levels of self-confidence and motivation for change adventure therapy is a valuable tool in the treatment of women with eating disorders. This is the finding of research by Dr Kaye Richards and colleagues which will be presented today, Friday 11 September 2009, at the 5th International Adventure Therapy Conference...
MU Researchers Better Understand The Brain Circuit That Controls Binge Eating
Scientists led a rat to the fatty food, but they couldn't make it eat. Using an animal model of binge eating, University of Missouri researchers discovered that deactivating the basolateral amygdala, a brain region involved in regulating emotion, specifically blocked consumption of a fatty diet. Surprisingly, it had no effect on the rat wanting to look for the food repeatedly...
Priory Expert Says Increased Stress Linked To Rise In Eating Disorders
The Priory Group, Europe's leading provider of acute mental health services, believes increased stresses on young Scots are linked to a rise in eating disorders in both men and women. There has been a rise in Scotland in the number of patients being seen by the Priory Group for treatment for an eating disorder...
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