By Dennis Thompson
HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 28 (HealthDay News) — Eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia are typically thought to be diseases of young women and men. But researchers are finding that the personal demons that drive a young person to an eating disorder may linger into adulthood.
More and more middle-aged and older people are coming forward to receive treatment for eating problems that began in their youth and have been reignited by adult stress or personal crises.
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 26 (HealthDay News) — People who feel powerless may choose larger food portions in an attempt to boost their social status, a new study suggests.
Northwestern University researchers found that people equate larger food portions with higher social standing. For example, study participants believed that people who opted for a large coffee had more social status than those who chose a medium or small coffee, even when the price was the same.
TUESDAY, July 5 (HealthDay News) — People with eating disorders, especially those with anorexia nervosa, have an increased risk of death, a new study indicates.
English researchers analyzed 36 English-language studies — published between January 2006 and September 2010 — that looked at anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and eating disorders not otherwise specified.
FRIDAY, June 24 (HealthDay News) — Dieting and disordered eating that begin in adolescence often continue into young adulthood, a new study finds.
Disordered eating includes unhealthy and extreme weight-control behaviors, such as fasting or skipping meals and binge eating.
By Jenifer Goodwin
HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, Nov. 29 (HealthDay News) — Eating disorders have risen steadily in children and teens over the last few decades, with some of the sharpest increases occurring in boys and minority youths, according to a new report.
In one startling statistic cited in the report, an analysis by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality found that hospitalizations for eating disorders jumped by 119 percent between 1999 and 2006 for kids younger than 12.
FRIDAY, June 4 (HealthDay News) — Midriff-revealing uniforms are linked to a higher risk of eating disorders among college cheerleaders, new research shows.
Toni Torres-McGehee, an assistant professor of athletic training at the University of South Carolina, studied 136 college cheerleaders in Division I and Division II, trying to determine if there were links between their team positions, their clothing requirements (full or midriff uniforms, for example), body image and prevalence of eating disorders.
WEDNESDAY, June 2 (HealthDay News) — Patients suffering from the eating disorder anorexia nervosa can actually lose brain volume, but new research suggests that, with special treatment, adult patients can regain the gray matter that they lost from relentless dieting.
“Anorexia nervosa wreaks havoc on many different parts of the body, including the brain,” study author Christina Roberto, of Yale University, said in a news release. “In our study, we measured brain volume deficits among underweight patients with the illness to evaluate if the decline is reversible through short-term weight restoration.”
MONDAY, Dec. 28 (HealthDay News) — The smartphone applications that help modern-world dwellers find restaurants in Calcutta, calculate the size of a room or even read a bar code may also fuel eating disorders.
In the wrong hands, apps and other instant technology may trigger obsessional behavior by allowing teens and young adults to constantly count calories and monitor their weight and food intake, experts say.
“This has been a concern of ours,” said Dr. Harry Brandt, director of the Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt in Towson, Md. “So many high school and college students have iPhone or smartphones or BlackBerries and a wave of applications that, to individuals with eating disorders, can be very detrimental. It’s a combination of obsessionality and perfectionism.” Read More
WEDNESDAY, April 1 (HealthDay News) — Despite its proven health benefits, a vegetarian diet might in fact be masking an underlying eating disorder, new research suggests.
The study, in the April issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, found that twice as many teens and nearly double the number of young adults who had been vegetarians reported having used unhealthy means to control their weight, compared with those who had never been vegetarians. Those means included using diet pills, laxatives and diuretics and inducing vomiting to control weight. Read More
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