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Adult picky eaters: Food preferences tend to be bland, white or pale colored - plain pasta or cheese pizza are said to be common foods along with French fries and chicken fingers. Some picky eaters stick to foods with a common texture or taste.
Orthorexics: Those affected may start by eliminating processed foods, anything with artificial colorings or flavorings as well as foods that have come into contact with pesticides. Beyond that, orthorexics may also shun caffeine, alcohol, sugar, salt, wheat and dairy foods. Some limit themselves to raw foods.
Check out this mobile phone app that guides healthy food choices.
What are the risks?
Health consequences: Limiting your diet to only a few foods - because you’re a picky eater or have a long list of foods you deem unhealthy - can lead to potentially dangerous nutritional deficiencies. At its most extreme, a diet limited to only a few foods perceived to be healthy is described as orthorexia nervosa and can lead to the same emaciation and health risks seen with anorexia nervosa.
Social Isolation: Being an adult picky eater can take an enormous social toll. Out of embarrassment, these folks avoid dining with friends or co-workers. Heather Hill tries to hide her eating habits from her children for fear that they will pick them up. Going to extremes in an effort to eat only healthy foods can also be socially isolating and can undermine personal relationships.
How are these disorders treated?
Adult Selective Eating: Techniques that have proven successful in treating kids who are picky eaters - learning assertiveness skills and systematically trying new foods - are being used on adults, but it’s still too soon to know whether they work.
Orthorexia: Cognitive behavior therapy designed to change obsessive thought patterns regarding food is usually recommended.
http://health.yahoo.net/experts/dayinhealth/new-eating-disorders-are-they-realAdult picky eaters: Food preferences tend to be bland, white or pale colored - plain... more
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Statistics* About Barbie:
• There are two Barbie dolls sold every second in the world.
• The target market for Barbie doll sales is young girls ages 3-12 years of age.
• A girl usually has her first Barbie by age 3, and collects a total of seven dolls during her childhood.
• Over a billion dollars worth of Barbie dolls and accessories were sold in 1993, making this doll big business and one of the top 10 toys sold.
• If Barbie were an actual women, she would be 5'9" tall, have a 39" bust, an 18" waist, 33" hips and a size 3 shoe.
• Barbie calls this a "full figure" and likes her weight at 110 lbs.
• At 5'9" tall and weighing 110 lbs, Barbie would have a BMI of 16.24 and fit the weight criteria for anorexia. She likely would not menstruate.
• If Barbie was a real woman, she'd have to walk on all fours due to her proportions.
• Slumber Party Barbie was introduced in 1965 and came with a bathroom scale permanently set at 110 lbs with a book entitled "How to Lose Weight" with directions inside stating simply "Don't eat."
For more information, call the South Shore Eating Disorders Collaborative at 508-230-1732 or visit the National Eating Disorders Association at www.nationaleatingdisorders.org.
* Source: Body Wars, Margo Maine, Ph.D., Gurze Books, 2000.Statistics* About Barbie:
• There are two Barbie dolls sold every second in... more
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This is, briefly, my story. It may not be much, but I hope that it can encourage someone, or give anyone something.
Your story is important.
This is not for attention, only to raise awareness that all of these things (pain, suffering, depression), they're all real and they're fatal. It's never too late to get help, or help somebody.
Eating Disorder Awareness week is the week of 022011.
I do not own the music.
During the video: Heads or Tails? Real or Not by Emarosa, from the album Relativity.
Captions: Rylynn by Andy McKeeThis is, briefly, my story. It may not be much, but I hope that it can encourage... more
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This sugar substitute is more deadly to dogs than chocolate! Find out what it is here and what products you use that contain it!This sugar substitute is more deadly to dogs than chocolate! Find out what it is here... more
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What the Bleep is Gluta-what!?
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Julie D. Holland, MHS, CEDS, and chief marketing officer of Eating Recovery Center in Colorado explores how thin is too thin in her Everyday Health blog The Truth About Eating Disorders.Julie D. Holland, MHS, CEDS, and chief marketing officer of Eating Recovery Center in... more
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Whitney Thompson has stripped bare in a bid to get women to love their bodies - no matter what their size is.
The full figured model, who won season ten of the hit U.S. show, America's Next Top Model, poses naked with a fellow plus size model, Chenese Lewis for an ad for Love Your Body Day.
Thompson, who is an ambassador for the National Eating Disorders Association, will also act as a celebrity host for the event which will be held on October 23.
Thompson has also stepped in to defend America's Next Top Model's host Tyra Banks who was embroiled in controversy recently after she was seen putting her hands around the waist of an extremely thin contestant on the latest series of the show.
'Tyra supports women of all sizes as long as they are healthy,' she says. 'I do not fault her reaction to seeing such a tiny waist.
'Tyra remains a leading figure in the fight for body equality in the fashion industry.'
Banks, who in her prime was a leading supermodel and Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition cover girl has famously struggled herself with weight.
Four years ago the former Victoria's Secret beauty gained 30 lbs and faced stinging headlines such as 'America's Next Top Waddle' after photographs of her looking bigger in a bathing suit appeared in magazines.
She swiftly came out in defense of curvy women at the time, saying on The Tyra Banks Show: 'To all of you who have something nasty to say to me or to women built like me. I have one thing to say to you: Kiss my fat a**!"
Five plus size models competed on Next Top Model before Thompson, but she was the first to win the coveted prize of a contract with Elite Model Management, a $100,000 contract with Cover Girl cosmetics and a six page spread and cover in Seventeen Magazine.
Banks is so committed to introducing body diversity into the notoriously thin dominated model industry that she is launching a new model competition focusing solely on plus size teens.
Any girls between the ages of 13 and 19 are invited to enter as long as they have a dress size between 12 and 20 and are between 5'9" and 6'1" in height.
'I've always felt it was my mission to expand the narrow perceptions of beauty,' Banks said to Us magazine.
The top model went on to say that she has always tried to 'challenge industry and universal standards' by 'celebrating non-traditional beauty' and stressing the importance of inner beauty.
Banks also said she was disappointed that the term 'plus-sized' had such a negative connotation, and that really, it just referred to the average American woman.
'That woman is healthy, fit and beautiful,' says Banks.
'Adolescence is such an impressionable time in a young woman's life, and I hope this contest helps teen girls discover their own beauty from the inside out.'Whitney Thompson has stripped bare in a bid to get women to love their bodies - no... more
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Women have a subconscious fear of getting fat, a study has found.
When they see an overweight woman, their brain reacts negatively, increasing feelings of unhappiness and even selfloathing, say researchers.
While this is common in anorexics and others with eating disorders, the experts found it also happens in healthy women with no obvious worries about their weight.
Men, however, showed no such response.
The study suggests women are under such pressure to conform to certain body shapes that even those happy and healthy have a subconscious fear of getting fat.
The research in the U.S. used MRI scans to study the reaction of the brain to images of strangers for the journal Personality and Individual Differences.
When women caught sight of an overweight, female stranger, it set off a reaction in the part of the brain that processes 'identity and self reflection'.
A similar test on men showed no such reaction.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1266007/Woman-inbuilt-fear-getting-fat-does-exist-men.htmlWomen have a subconscious fear of getting fat, a study has found.
When they see an... more
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Today women are obsessed with their size. In the last 10 years England had an 80% increase in young ladies who were hospitalized for anorexia. Young girls’ idea of the perfect body image is the famous women who strut the front of magazine covers. An estimation of 1.1 million people residing in the United Kingdom suffer from an eating disorder of some kind. These women range from 12-24 years old who do anything from over-exercise, take laxatives, bulimia, calorie-count and obsessively diet.Today women are obsessed with their size. In the last 10 years England had an 80%... more
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The Rose is a facility that would seem to be meant for celebrity women but is actually for treating any women who need help with addiction, alcoholism, eating disorders, and underlying issues (ie. depression, trauma, anxiety)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WvbCtmjQUM&feature=relatedThe Rose is a facility that would seem to be meant for celebrity women but is actually... more
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In this podcast, Dr. Darryl Inaba discusses how people bing eat during the holidays starting with Thanksgiving and ending with the New Year. Do they make resolutions to diet and can compulsive overeaters achienve this?In this podcast, Dr. Darryl Inaba discusses how people bing eat during the holidays... more
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Model Kate Moss has been causing outrage over her comments on a fashion website. When asked if she had any mottos she said:
"There are loads of mottos. There's 'Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels'. That's one of them."
The motto originally came from some early Weight Watchers meeting and is said to be the slogan for people who are anorexic and bulimic.
However it appeared she tried to qualify the comment by later saying: "You try and remember, but it never works."
Campaigners say she should be setting an example to millions of girls and young women who see her as a role model and not encouraging them to hold off eating.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20091119/ten-kate-moss-slammed-over-skinny-commen-ea4616c.htmlModel Kate Moss has been causing outrage over her comments on a fashion website. When... more
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There has been a firestorm of discussion recently around the issue of displaying nutrition facts (i.e. calories, fat grams) on labels placed in front of food items in college dining halls. While the issue has been hotly debated on many campuses, including Yale and Harvard, it has also become a focus of national attention. In response to the growing controversy, Newsweek recently posted a web exclusive article titled “Rethinking the Freshman 15″. The question posed in the article is whether posting nutrition information promotes health or promotes an unhealthy obsession with numbers and food?
Read more at http://eatingdisorder.org/blog/2009/10/02/awareness-vs-obsession-nutrition-information-in-college-dining-halls/There has been a firestorm of discussion recently around the issue of displaying... more
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The Royal College of Psychiatrists has appealed to the government to do more to tackle the growing number of 'Pro-ana' and Pro-mia' (pro-anorexia and bulimia respectively) websites, as well as criticizing international catwalk shows, such as those featured during London Fashion Week, claiming they act as 'a showcase for underweight women' (Professor Ulrike Schmidt, chair of the college’s eating disorders section).The Royal College of Psychiatrists has appealed to the government to do more to tackle... more
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New imaging technology provides insight into abnormalities in the brain circuitry of patients with anorexia nervosa (commonly known as anorexia) that may contribute to the puzzling symptoms found in people with the eating disorder. In a review paper published on line in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 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 which may help explain why people develop anorexia in the first place, and behaviors such as the relentless pursuit of dieting and weight loss.
"Currently, we don't have very effective means of treating people with anorexia," said Kaye. "Consequently, many patients with the disorder remain ill for years or eventually die from the disease, which has the highest death rate of any psychiatric disorder."
A better understanding of the underlying neurobiology - how behavior is coded in the brain and contributes to anorexia —is likely to result in more effective treatments, according to the researchers.
Childhood personality and temperament may increase an individual's vulnerability to developing anorexia. Predisposing factors, some suspected to be inherited, such as perfectionism, anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive tendencies may precede the onset of an eating disorders. These traits become intensified during adolescence as a consequence of many factors such as hormonal changes, stress and culture.
"Adolescence is a time of transition, when individuals must learn to balance immediate and long-term needs and goals in order to achieve independence," said Kaye. "For such individuals, learning to cope with mixed societal messages and pressures may be overwhelming, exacerbating underlying traits of anxiety and a desire to perfectly achieve."
Once a patient develops anorexia, starvation and malnutrition cause profound effects on the brain and other organ systems. Such changes include neuro-chemical imbalances, which may, in turn, exaggerate the preexisting traits and accelerate the disease process.
"Individuals with anorexia tend to report that dieting reduces anxiety, while eating increases it," said Kaye. "This is very different from most individuals, who experience hunger as unpleasant." The powerful drive to avoid being anxious drives actually weight loss in anorexia nervosa, triggering the out-of-control spiral that results in severe emaciation and malnutrition.
In addition, people with anorexia nervosa tend to not experience pleasure or live "in the moment." They often have exaggerated and obsessive worry about the consequences of their behaviors, looking for rules when there are none, and are overly concerned about making mistakes. Co-author Julie L. Fudge of the Department of Psychiatry & Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Rochester Medical Center, notes that imaging studies suggest that individuals with anorexia have an imbalance between circuits in the brain that regulate reward and emotion (the ventral or limbic circuit) and circuits that are associated with consequences and planning ahead (the dorsal or cognitive circuit.)
"Brain-imaging studies also show that individuals with anorexia have alterations in those parts of the brain involved with bodily sensations, such as sensing the rewarding aspects of pleasurable foods," said co-author Martin Paulus, UC San Diego professor of psychiatry, who heads UC San Diego's Laboratory of Biological Dynamics and Theoretical Medicine. "Anorexics may literally not recognize when they are hungry."
One such brain region is the anterior insula, which is critically important for interoception, or the self-awareness of internal body signals. In addition to a failure to respond appropriately to signals of hunger, symptoms of anorexia - such as distorted body image and diminished motivation to change - could be related to disturbed interoceptive awareness.
"Anorexia is very complicNew imaging technology provides insight into abnormalities in the brain circuitry of... more
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