Eating Disorder Awareness Week

February 25 through March 3 marks the 20th annual Eating Disorder Awareness Week. For Purdue students, Eiler runs an eating disorder support group on campus.
From: www.purdueexponent.org

Binge eating is common

This month, researchers at Harvard published a survey finding that binge eating is by far the most common eating disorder, topping its closest rivals, anorexia and bulimia.
From: www.rockymountainnews.com

Awareness Week informs about eating disorders

It is national Eating Disorder Awareness Week, a week to help spread the word about how eating disorders are affecting millions of lives throughout America. "Some people use extreme dieting, binge eating and emotional suffering with "comfort" foods for some sense of control.
From: www.dailyvidette.com

UNL works at healthy body images with eating disorder awareness

In the United States, the average woman stands at about 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighs about 160 pounds. The average American model, the women we see on runways at fashion shows and in advertisements on TV and in magazines, is closer to 5 feet, 11 inches and weighs about 117 pounds.
From: www.dailynebraskan.com

Warning signs

According to Karen Brown, school nurse at Millicoma Intermediate School, catching an eating disorder early is critical. Young adults can do serious damage to their bodies in a short time if they are anorexic or bulimic, she added.
From: www.theworldlink.com

Courier News Online - HUNTERDON CO.: National Eating Disorder Awareness Week begins

Hunterdon Medical Center wants increasing awareness that Feb. 25 through March 34 is National Eating Disorder Awareness Week to help those with eating disorders, wich can be serious health conditions and can be life-threatening, to receive treatment.
From: www.c-n.com

Program to focus on eating disorders

Beginning Monday, Texas A&M is taking part in the national Eating Disorders Awareness Week: Love Your Body program.
From: www.theeagle.com

Counseling center to feed students info on eating disorders

The Student Counseling Center will host a series of events this week to educate the ISU community about eating disorders during National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. National Eating Disorder Awareness Week starts Monday. The motto for the program is "Be comfortable in your genes.
From: www.indianastatesman.com

Eating disorders brought into focus

Jessika Cremer and Abby Bishop saw their friend wasting away, but they didnt know what to do. Their friend is doing wonderfully now, they stress. But it wasnt too long ago that she suffered from anorexia, an eating disorder that caused her to become dangerously thin and landed her in the hospital. It just sucked the life out of her, Cremer said.
From: www.gazette.com

Line between overeating and binge disorder is a thin one

For Natalie, it started in high school. She had always been a hearty eater, but increasingly, when life got stressful, she turned to food for comfort.
From: www.cnn.com

Coping on her own: People with eating disorders have few options in Wyoming

In the summer of 2004, Charlynn Smith began picking up the pieces of the life an eating disorder had almost destroyed.
From: www.casperstartribune.net

BU raises awareness about eating disorders

For the 2005-2006 academic year, Baylor Health Center reported that 8.6 percent of 535 students they saw struggled with an eating disorder.
From: www.baylor.edu

Eating Disorder Awareness topic of weeklong events

The Counseling Center wants students to be comfortable in their genes from Feb. 26 to March 2. National Eating Disorders Awareness Week aims to teach the UM community how to prevent eating disorders and where to turn for help.
From: www.thehurricaneonline.com

Study: Genetics May Lead To Eating Disorders

The results of a decade-long study are providing new evidence that genetics may lead to eating disorders.
From: www.nbcsandiego.com

Health Tip: Signs of Binge-Eating Disorder

(HealthDay News) -- Binge eating occurs when a person habitually overeats.
From: news.yahoo.com

Improving Body Image Key to Treating Eating Disorders

Persons with eating disorders spend nearly every waking moment--up to 80 to 90 percent of their day--obsessing about their appearance, say treatment professionals with the Eating Disorders Program at The Menninger Clinic in Houston. Improving body image is an important part of the treatment process for patients with eating disorders.
From: www.newswise.com

Six-fold increase in eating disorders among teenagers since 2002

SINGAPORE: The number of teenagers with eating disorder has increased six-fold since 2002. The Singapore General Hospital said 140 new cases are reported every year.
From: www.channelnewsasia.com

Anorexia Likely Has Genetic Link, Study Reveals

International study conducted in ten cities finds that if a person has a family member who has the eating disorder, she or he is 12 times more at risk of developing the illness.
From: www.foxnews.com

Eating-disorder study suggests a genetic role

People who have relatives with anorexia nervosa are at greater risk of developing it, a local researcher says.
From: www.tulsaworld.com

Eating Disorders and Children with Special Needs

Children with special needs may have eating disorders related to their diagnosis, or may develop an eating disorder that puts their health at serious risk
From: www.bellaonline.com

STORY of HOPE

Nine-year-old Tyler Staab, who suffers from the neurologic movement disorder dystonia, undergoes a second deep brain stimulation surgery to help alleviate his symptoms.
From: www.gainesville.com

Treatment cost plagues eating-disorder patients

As her weight dipped below 84 pounds, Kendra Hubbard entered a residential program to treat the anorexia she has suffered for decades. When she left in January after almost a month, she had gained weight and stopped fainting.
From: www.montereyherald.com

Researchers attempt to find genetic link for eating disorders

Jessica and Jamie Parrish, twins from Clear Lake, recently joined hundreds of other family members with shared eating disorders taking part in an international study aimed at isolating the gene or genes linked to the disease.
From: www.chron.com

Nation/World Briefs

NORWALK, Ohio -- A couple who forced some of their 11 adopted, special-needs children to sleep in cages were sentenced to two years in prison each for child endangering Thursday. Sharen Gravelle told the court the children were never confined as punishment but rather to protect them. The children, who suffered from problems such as fetal alcohol syndrome and a disorder that involves eating ...
From: www.detnews.com