In this week's issue of US Weekly, reality star Stephanie Pratt dishes about her battle with bulimia and even her suicide attempt because of the pressures of fame and to be thin. Stephanie is on the reality show The...
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Increasing patient caseloads, professional collaboration/patient sharing and lack of medical resources are among the trends revealed in a May 2009 survey of eating disorder professionals conducted by the Eating Recovery Center (http://www.eatingrecoveryinfo.com), the premier...
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"You can never be too rich or too thin, or so the saying goes. While there’s little chance I’ll ever get to worry about the former, I am far more familiar with the latter then I would ever care to be. I was first diagnosed with anorexia nervosa in 1984 not long after that...
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The National Eating Disorders group in the US created an awareness week which takes place during the last week of February each year in the hopes to prevent eating disorders and unhealthy body image, and to eliminate...
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December first, the start of the rounds of Christmas parties and visiting which is usually accompanied with high calorie food and drink. For many of us, we try and usually fail to follow the healthy eating guidelines to avoid gaining excess poundage. For those...
It's take a big man to admit to binge eating. A quite candid revelation."Bulimic John Prescott used to gorge on Big Macs after attending lavish five-course state banquets.The former Deputy Premier's late-night...
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Backlash, smacklash. At least, that's what Victoria "Posh" Beckham, Geri "Ginger" Halliwell, Melanie "Sporty" Chisholm, Melanie "Scary" Brown and Emma "Baby" Bunton are saying today as their private 747 (see...
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Bulimia nervosa, commonly known as bulimia, is an eating disorder and psychological condition in which the subject engages in recurrent binge eating ...
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PCOS may promote bulimia -- where you binge eat and then purge (by vomiting or laxative use). Bulimic women with PCOS appear to be more sensitive to male hormones. Unfortunately, PCOS women have high levels of male hormones. These hormones stimulate appetite and impair...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorApparently being Healthy is not good enough in a image and youth based society.It is so tragic that young pre teen women feel peer pressure in that they must fit into a...
A flurry of news stories this week has focused attention on the cult-like growth of "pro-ana" web sites. First off the mark was a Washington Post item, Invitation to Harm:Some Minors Find MySpace.com a Hospitable Home for Traffic in Illegal Pills and Promotion of...
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