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An eating disorder can completely consume an individual, dominating actions, activities and health. For those who are struggling with anorexia nervosa, the impact can be significant. Such individuals drastically reduce their food intake and are often incapable of changing their behavior.
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A new act, propelled by two Minnesota senators, seeks to improve the plight of those suffering from eating disorders and prevent future cases. The Freed Act would allocate research money to the National Institutes of Health to better investigate the causes of eating disorders and improve treatment methods. The research would also seek to improve public data on eating disorders, including morbidity and mortality rates.
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While eating disorders can turn an individual’s life upside down, the impact the disorder can have on the body in the long run is cause for concern. For those suffering from anorexia nervosa (AN), individuals suffer a distorted body image, fear of obesity, self-starvation, significant weight loss and amenorrhea.
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While diagnostic tests are necessary to determine whether or not an individual is sick and needs help, a new study has determined that diagnostic cutoffs for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa may actually be too strict. This finding is from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.
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When it comes to treating people suffering from eating disorders, Michelle Emmerling would like to see caregivers look beyond the physical issues. Emmerling, a PhD candidate in counseling psychology in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta, is focusing her doctoral research on the role of psychological and emotional factors for anorexics—she wants to give voice to their struggles and the causes of their disorder.
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A new study from Brigham Young University has found that female brains react in a negative way when they view photos of overweight individuals, even when they’re of a normal weight.
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Diagnostic cutoffs for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa may be too strict, a study from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital has found. Many patients who do not meet full criteria for these diseases are nevertheless quite ill, and the diagnosis they now receive, "Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified," may delay their ability to get treatment. "There’s mounting evidence that we should reconsider the EDNOS categorization for young people," said Rebecka Peebles, MD, the study’s primary author.
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While the stereotype for eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia is often young, adolescent girls, the more common segment of the population to struggle with such disorders is women in their 30s, 40s and 50s.
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Binge eaters can often find themselves out of control and completely at the mercy of their eating disorder, which affects more than three percent of the population in the United States. As devastating as an eating disorder such as binge eating can be, there is an increasing amount of research being conducted to identify key triggers for such disorders and how best to treat them.
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Researchers say that rats given unlimited access to high-fat foods exhibited addiction-like responses in their brains that could underlie compulsive eating and obesity.
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