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While it has yet to earn the rank of an official title, “drunkorexia” is still a potentially fatal condition. It is used to describe those who have eating disorders and then engage in binge drinking. This condition was first reported by the Eating Disorder Center of Denver and evaluated by Emax Health in a recent post.
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Research shows that the transition to college, with its inherent pressures and changes, can increase the likelihood of eating disorders in young adults. While college students are empowered with newfound independence, this freedom can also trigger unhealthy and dangerous behaviors.
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Binge eating can be just as detrimental to a person’s mental and physical health as binge drinking or any other impulse activity. To get a better idea of how to prevent and treat those who are dealing with this condition, researchers will examine it from a variety of angles, including race.
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When entering an exhibit about eating disorders in the Rotunda Gallery in the Nebraska Union, visitors will be taken through the four stages of eating disorders: images, distortion, despair, and hope.
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Eliminating body-hatred conversations was one of the biggest steps Jenni Schaefer took to conquer her eating disorder.
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With the advent of cell phones that do much more than make and receive calls, applications on smart phones and iPhones that allow users to monitor their caloric intake and body weight could fuel or trigger eating disorders, writes Julie Deardorff of the Chicago Tribune.
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Christina Boudreau was a good student who played basketball and swam. But as a sophomore in high school, she was also throwing up eight times a day and contemplating suicide.
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When nearly 85 percent of American women are dissatisfied with their appearance and half of all fourth grade girls are on a diet, it’s no wonder “fat talk” permeates American society.
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Former Ralph Lauren model Filippa Hamilton says she was fired for being “too fat.” The company recently received criticism for altering an image of the 5-foot-10, 120-pound model to look emaciated, with her head too big for her body.
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The already unrealistically thin Barbie doll is becoming even thinner, as designer Christian Louboutin thinks the doll’s ankles are “too fat” and is redesigning a newer, thinner version due out in the US in May. Examiner.com writer Cindy Adams notes that this move may fuel the already rising incidence of eating disorders among women in the U.S. who strive to obtain impossibly thin figures.
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