anorexia
Anorexia May Provide Sense of Belonging
Anorexia nervosa often ensnares women into a pattern of recovery and relapse, making it difficult for individuals suffering from the eating disorder to maintain healthy eating habits after completing treatment. Anorexia is the most deadly of the various types of eating disorders and has the highest mortality rate of any mental disorder, including depression and schizophrenia.
Dentists Can Spot Need for Anorexia or Bulimia Treatment
Eating disorders such as bulimia, and to some extent, anorexia, can go undiagnosed for years, especially when the person does not seek medical treatment. Both illnesses are characterized by a distorted self-image that changes how the person sees herself and feels about her body and its relationship with food.
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Study Finds that Food Produces Anxiety in Those with Anorexia Nervosa
Although many people find it difficult to diet and lose weight, people suffering from anorexia nervosa can actually diet themselves to death, and many die from starvation and its effects on the body. A new study gives insight as to why these symptoms can occur in people with anorexia.
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Spring Births May Increase Chances of Developing Anorexia
A new study has found that anorexia nervosa, a serious eating disorder that can result in death, is more common among people born in spring months. Researchers from Oxford University said their study, the largest to date, provides clear evidence of a “season of birth” effect in anorexia.
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Women with Anorexia Nervosa More Likely to Have Unwanted Pregnancies
A new study has found that women with anorexia nervosa are more likely to have unplanned pregnancies and induced abortions than women who don’t have the eating disorder. The results suggest that this could be partly due to the fact that many women with anorexia mistakenly believe that they can’t get pregnant because they may experience irregular periods or may not menstruate at all.
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Who’s to Blame for Anorexia?
Painfully thin, emaciated, starving – these words come to mind when looking at photographs of malnourished children in third-world countries. But they’re not the only ones suffering – and they’re not suffering by choice. Anorexia, or specifically, anorexia nervosa, a mental disorder manifesting itself as an eating disorder, involves deliberate choice to avoid food, an obsessive fear of weight gain and a constant pursuit of thinness. And it seems most prevalent in Western countries, specifically America. But where did this obsession start and, more important, who is to blame for anorexia?
New Insights into Anorexia Discovered
Science Daily reports that new technology provides insights into brain abnormalities in patients with anorexia nervosa that may contribute to the symptoms found in people with the disorder.
Walter Kaye, MD, professor of psychiatry and director of the Eating Disorders Program at the University of California, San Diego, and colleagues describe dysfunction in certain neural circuits of the brain that may help explain why people develop anorexia.
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