U.S. Centers to Launch Major Study of Anorexia

SATURDAY, March 31 (HealthDay News) -- A four-year study of anorexia nervosa by the U.S National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) will begin accepting patients May 1. Anorexia nervosa is a dangerous eating disorder that mostly affects teenage girls.
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On thin ice: Anorexic teen and her family struggle to overcome eating disorder

New York Fashion Week ended Friday, dimming the spotlight on public discussion of too-thin models and their influence on young women.
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France urges care on skinny models but rejects ban

France will not ban skinny models from Paris catwalks but will introduce a voluntary charter to make the fashion industry more aware of the health risks of being very thin, the Health Ministry said on Friday.
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Welcome to Public Opinion - Chambersburg, PA

Colony collapse disorder is the latest name for an ailment that leaves bee hives suddenly empty. Its symptoms match conditions that beekeepers have named fall dwindle disease, spring dwindle, disappearing disease and, in France, mad bee disease.
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Those exaggerated deaths Celebrities

Celebrity status, like Britney Spears, can be a little unstable. And while there are plenty of ways to tell if you?ve got it (US Weekly covers, rumors of a pregnancy or an eating disorder, dating Jared Leto), there are just as many ways to tell if you?ve lost it.
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How Specialist Town Lost His Benefits

The Nation -- Jon Town has spent the last few years fighting two battles, one against his body, the other against the US Army.
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Versace daughter battling anorexia

ROME, Italy (Reuters) -- Allegra Beck Versace, the 20-year-old heiress to the fashion house that bears her name, is suffering from anorexia, the eating disorder which many people blame at least in part on the diktats of the beauty industry.
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Local couple thinks tainted pet food killed their cat

Menu Foods confirms 15 cats and one dog have died after eating food contaminated with rat poison. A Mobile man and wife are convinced theirs did too.
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Versace heiress suffers from anorexia

The 20-year-old daughter of world-famous fashion designer Donattella Versace is being treated for anorexia, the family announced Wednesday, in a step likely to re-start the so-called size zero debate and renew calls for a ban on stick-thin fashion models.
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Versace heiress "battling anorexia," says Donatella

Allegra Beck Versace, the 20-year-old heiress to the fashion house that bears her name, is suffering from anorexia, the eating disorder which many people blame at least in part on the diktats of the beauty industry.
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Bans no answer to ultra-thin models: Singapore fashion fest

The fashion industry must police itself via education and awareness to keep ultra-thin models off the catwalks rather than imposing drastic bans, Singapore Fashion Festival organisers say.
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Eating disorders increasing in children: Report

LONDON - Eating disorders are so prevalent these days that they are affecting children as young as six years, according to new research from the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit. The details are due to be presented at the annual meeting of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
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Teens and body image

Growing up in a culture where super-skinny stars are splashed across the covers of magazine, Chelsea McDowell understands why some teenage girls develop eating disorders. "Every time another singer,...
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Satori House at Shoreline Center Opens New Eating Disorder Extended Care Residence in Long Beach, CA, in an Effort to ...

The Shoreline Center for Eating Disorder Treatment announces the opening of Satori House, a Supportive Living Home for those in recovery from Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa, located in a serene, upscale neighborhood, close to Cal State Long Beach with easy access to shopping, public transportation and the beach. Rachel Levi, LMFT, CEDS, Founder and Clinical Director said ?Opening a new, ...
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Eating disorders affecting more men

They exercise for hours, devise rigid rituals surrounding food, obsessively monitor their weight and yearn to resemble the taut-bodied celebrities whose images grace magazine covers.
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Fears over the environment spawn eco-therapy

Dr. Theo Colborn is renowned for her research on endocrine disruptors, tiny, mostly man-made chemicals found in pesticides like DDT as well as everyday objects like plastic water bottles. She believes they are behind the rise in autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and some birth defects.
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Parenting tip of the week: Eating disorders among teenagers

Our image-obsessed culture can make it difficult for teenagers to fit in. Having concerns about body image is normal. However, teens cross the line by engaging in behaviors which can be physically or emotionally dangerous. The problem then becomes an eating disorder. Some signs include being obsessed with weight and food, excessively counting calories, or going on a restrictive diet, using ...
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Court challenge over coverage for eating disorders

TRENTON ? Jeff and Cindy Meiskin have been trying to find the final piece of the puzzle to help their daughter Marisa.
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Secret binges

Binge eating has joined binge drinking, shopping and gambling as yet another out-of-control American habit.
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THE BATTLE OF BINGE EATING

As an adolescent, Linda Mazzaferro was overweight.
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Family sues insurers over anorexia care

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP -- It started under the guise of eating healthy foods when she was 13. Gradually, Marisa Meiskin, a lively and outgoing teenager, began to limit the types of foods she would eat and to obsessively read labels, her mother, Cindy Meiskin said.
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In defense of tween girls everywhere

Britney Spears goes crazy, shaves her head bald and bounces in and out of rehab. Nicole Richie smokes pot, pops some vicodin, gets drunk and goes driving. Mary Kate Olsen ends up all over the tabloids for having an eating disorder. Paris Hilton does something else that makes her look remarkably stupid and skanky.
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Young girl may have an eating disorder

Dear Annie: Let me start off by saying I adore your column and read it every day. I trust your advice.
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Nicole Richie Diagnosed with Hypoglycemia

The Simple Life star Nicole Richie has been diagnosed with blood disorder hypoglycemia.
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New Eating Disorder Extended Care Residence Opens Under Auspices of the Shoreline Center in an Effort to Prevent Relapse

The Shoreline Center for Eating Disorder Treatment announces the opening of Satori House, a Supportive Living Home for those in recovery from Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa. (PRWeb Mar 22, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/chachingpr.php/Q291cC1Ib3JyLUhhbGYtRmFsdS1NYWduLVplcm8=
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Scout reportedly had planned to hitchhike

On his fourth day lost in the rugged mountains of western North Carolina, it took Michael Auberry a moment Tuesday to realize that the woman and her barking dog had come to rescue him.
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ADHD drug use for youth obesity raises ethical questions

When Alex Veith was 11 years old, he was in a bad spot.
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Gene Controlling Circadian Rhythms May be Involved in Onset of Bipolar Disorder

Disrupt the gene that regulates the biological clocks in mice and they become manic, exhibiting behaviors similar to humans with bipolar disorder, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found.
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Health Watch: Insomnia

ATLANTA (FOX5) -- The FDA issued a warning about prescription sleep medications, ordering drug makers to list risks and unusual side effects like driving and eating while asleep. The drugs are often used to treat the chronic sleep disorder insomnia. Click video for more information.
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Aimee Liu: The Power - and Complexity - of Positive Passion

We live in a how-to world that trains us to demand quick fixes and instant solutions. So it should come as no surprise that people in the grip of eating disorders want to know "how to" recover. But this question reflects an assumption that there is a single, one-size-fits-all solution for these deeply internal and complex problems. As anyone who has experienced or studied them knows, there is no ...
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Health & fitness beat: Mar. 19

MALE EATING DISORDERS They exercise for hours, devise rigid rituals surrounding food, obsessively monitor their weight and yearn to resemble the taut-bodied celebrities whose images grace magazine covers. But these eating-disorder sufferers are male.
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Eating Disorders: A Midlife Crisis for Some Women

SUNDAY, March 18 (HealthDay News) -- You starve yourself, shedding pounds, and it feels too good to ever stop.
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Eating Disorder Websites Danger Exposed

By Anonymous Research has highlighted the dangers of websites that promote eating disorders. Mental health charity SANE conducted research into the experiences of young people using pro-eating disorder websites.
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How to detect an eating disorder

Bloomfield Hills psychologist Dr. Sarah Brotsky said parents should know better than to downplay an eating disorder.
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Young People Avoid Nurse or GP on Eating Disorders

By Anonymous Most young people with eating disorders do not feel confident to approach a nurse or GP about their problem, according to new research.
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New study to compare anorexia treatments

WHITE PLAINS - Involving family members in treating someone with anorexia nervosa is often critical to successfully overcoming this intractable eating disorder.
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An eating disorder and death stir fight

They talked that Saturday night about how they would spend Sunday together, as they always did.
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More men suffer from eating disorders

They exercise for hours, devise rigid rituals surrounding food, obsessively monitor their weight and yearn to resemble the taut-bodied celebrities whose images grace magazine covers.
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Popular New Videos

Home > News > Newton-John Pleads With Parents For Anorexia... Australian singer/actress Olivia Newton-John has pleaded with parents of eating disorder sufferers to "listen to their children."
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The Doctor Is In A Rut

Over a period of 15 years a young woman named Anne Dodge saw doctor after doctor in a quest to overcome what was consistently diagnosed as an eating disorder. Following meals she experienced nausea and intense stomach pain, and sometimes she vomited.
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Young adults more likely to battle eating disorders

WAVERLY, Iowa - The frequent trips to the bathroom, locking the door and turning up the radio. The skipped dinners. The excessive workouts. Mandy Kakac saw all these signs, which sparked concern that her friend was in trouble.
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Eating disorders strike men

Anorexia, bulimia and binges increase as some pursue the six-pack abs ideal.
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Men and boys are suffering from eating disorders

They exercise for hours, devise rigid rituals surrounding food, obsessively monitor their weight and yearn to resemble the taut-bodied celebrities whose images grace magazine covers.
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Sleep Disorder Meds To Carry Stronger Risks Warnings

(Washington, DC) -- All sleep disorder drugs are being required to carry stronger warnings about risks. The Food and Drug Administration is including severe allergic reactions as among warnings the medications will need to make consumers aware of.
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Sleep Disorder Meds To Carry Stronger Risks Warnings

(Washington, DC) -- All sleep disorder drugs are being required to carry stronger warnings about risks. The Food and Drug Administration is including severe allergic reactions as among warnings the medications will need to make consumers aware of.
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FDA calls for stronger warnings on sleep drugs

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday ordered sleep disorder drugs to carry stronger warnings about their risks, such as drowsy driving and severe allergic reactions.
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Workshop focuses on body image, eating disorders

Beyond Hunger is planning a two-day eating disorder and body image workshop.
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Eating Disorder Task Force

24 million Americans suffer from eating disorders.
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Health Matters Relapse is high for eating disorder patients

Eating disorders are among the most destructive mental health conditions. From the secrecy of binging and purging to the serious health consequences, eating disorders take a tremendous toll on the mind and body.
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Emotional eating program to be held Wednesday in Willimantic

WILLIMANTIC ? ?Bandage my Heart with Chocolate: Unwrapping Emotional Eating,? a program that offers participants the opportunity to learn about emotional eating, will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday in room 110, Webb Hall, Eastern Connecticut State University.
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Women with infertility disorder get help

Since the end of January, Angela Gilbert, 31, has been dieting, exercising and learning more about the condition that she shares with an estimated 7 percent of women. Known by its initials, PCOS is one of the most common causes of infertility.
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More Women of Childbearing Age Developing Eating Disorders

Eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia are becoming more common in women who can have children, according to Remuda Ranch Programs for Eating Disorders, one of the United States? top centers for treating these diseases.
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Claudia Zapata: Men also face eating disorders

For 14 years, Todd had been keeping a painful and "embarrassing" secret. He was bulimic.
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Eating disorder education can go wrong

Some teenagers who learn about anorexia and bulimia through videos decide they want to look like the people on screen.
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Eating-disorder education shows unintended effects

Teaching teenagers about eating disorders can make them more knowledgeable about the problem, but it may also have some inadvertent effects, a new study suggests.
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When eating disorder hits, some insurance companies won?t pay

Mike Hall?s daughter, Meghan, has struggled with anorexia nervosa for the past three years. At times, her weight has dropped as low as 67 pounds ? she is 5?6? tall ? and she has had to be force-fed through a tube. Once, a priest performed last rites.
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A brother?s story

Cristof Traudes describes his brother Erik?s struggle with Asperger?s, an enigmatic disorder that has challenged their family and Erik?s resolve.
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Winslet gives libel cash to eating disorder charity

Oscar-nominated actress Kate Winslet has donated libel damages she won over a magazine report saying she sought help for a weight problem to an eating disorder charity.
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Eating disorders can affect anyone at any time

A bright, high-achieving 20-year-old who is rational in every other way comes to believe that 100 pounds is the ideal weight for her 5-foot-4-inch frame, when 125 pounds is actually the average weight for a girl that age.
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Web program may help ward off eating disorders

Young women showed less dissatisfaction with their weight and shape after participating in an Internet-based eating disorder prevention program, researchers from Germany found.
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Facing the mirror: the skinny on eating disorders

Every time I go to the grocery store, I play a little game. I walk past the magazine rack and count how many of the tabloids plastered a skinny actress and the words "eating disorder" across their covers that week. I always find at least one.
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Combating eating disorders takes time, requires help

Eating Disorder Awareness week, like the disorder itself, was a silent struggle. Posters, magazine clippings of grotesquely thin models and nutrition pamphlets were left untouched at the "Healthy Habits: A Way of Life" presentation by Heather Peterson, yoga instructor and life coach.
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Assembly series focuses on eating disorders

Photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield is presenting her work about problems in American youth culture today at the Assembly Series. She has specifically chronicled the rise in eating disorders, now affecting an estimated 20 percent of the population.
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March 7, 2007

The Eating Disorder Support Group will meet at 1-2 p.m. today in the University Center San Jacinto Room. The meeting is confidential and no record of attendees will be kept, said Hillary Timmers, Health Education student development specialist.
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One size fits all for cause

Drastic weight loss, impulsive dieting and obsessive exercising are three things that characterized her five-year struggle with an eating disorder.
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Pro Anorexia Groups Target MySpace

Millions of teenagers and young women trying to be thin suffer from life- threatening eating disorders, and some experts believe that surfing the popular Web site MySpace.com is helping to feed that destructive behavior.
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Off-Broadway Production Helps Family Deal With Eating Disorder

The amount of girls and women who have eating disorders has prompted a unique response from a Milwaukee-area teacher.
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When image becomes distorted

For years, Leslie Goldman kept her eating disorder a secret.
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Purple Ribbon Week sheds light on eating disorder awareness

All over campus teachers and students are wearing purple, periwinkle ribbons. This is in association with Eating Disorder Awareness week which goes from Feb. 25 to March 3. In its 20th year, the week informs people of a serious and chronic disease that affects large numbers of the population.
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New clinic to treat eating disorders

People with anorexia are getting both younger and older. And, there are more of them. Cementing its position as the biggest regional center for treating anorexia, bulimia and other eating disorders, Park Nicollet Health Services is building a $29 million inpatient facility in St. Louis Park to house its Eating Disorder Institute. The clinic will consolidate under one roof staff and programs now ...
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"Dissonance" therapy aids eating disorder symptoms

Group therapy using a technique based on the theory of "cognitive dissonance" may help young women at risk of eating disorders, new research suggests.
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Former Model Ron Saxen Releases ?The Good Eater: The True Story of One Man?s Struggle with Binge Eating Disorder?

First ever memoir on Binge Eating Disorder written from a male perspective (PRWeb Mar 2, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/chachingpr.php/VGhpci1TdW1tLVBpZ2ctU3VtbS1NYWduLVplcm8=
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Leslie Goldman: Fighting the Fight: Speaking Publically About An Eating Disorder

One of the ways I chose to help myself in recovery from anorexia - a way to feel like I was turning lemons into lemonade, I suppose - was by starting to speak about my experience to students. I was in my early 20s at the time and in the beginning, I chose my high school alma mater. I remember crouching down in my old high school locker room, peering into a mirror anchored far too low for my tall ...
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UD events encourage healthy eating

NEWARK -- Ten years from now, Natalie Gempesaw-Pangan hopes to visit the University of Delaware and find that the eating disorder awareness events she organized this year have expanded into a "bonanza."
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Learn to identify signs of eating disorders

Experts are using National Eating Disorders Awareness Week as a time to educate the public about the warning signs and dangers associated with these diseases. "It is estimated that approximately 10 million women and 1 million men suffer from some type of eating disorder," said Susan Elaine, a psychotherapist with ETSU Physicians and Associates.
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