Posted on Jun 29th, 2010 |
A new study shows that teenage girls who have normal weight levels but consider themselves to be overweight are at higher risk of depression than teenage girls who are aware that they are overweight. Researchers at Penn State University’s sociology and demography department explain in the latest issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior that overweight girls have traditionally been regarded as at greater risk of depression due to their larger weight, yet the behavioral risk factors of girls of healthy weight have essentially been overlooked in previous weight-mental health relationship studies.
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Posted on Jun 24th, 2010 |
Many young women in the United States struggle with eating disorders. Especially prevalent from puberty through college years, eating disorders seem to be caused by a combination of genetic and environmental causes.
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Eating disorders are often developed during adolescent years, and sometimes last into young adulthood. Research is revealing that there may be a tie to a chemical imbalance that starts during puberty, causing many young girls to struggle with disorders like anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
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Posted on Jun 22nd, 2010 |
While weight-management dieting among young females is widespread, the use of extreme dieting or other disordered eating behaviors is not as common. In the United States, although approximately two-thirds of females use some type of dieting behavior, only about 5 to 7 percent actually participate in behaviors identified as symptoms of an eating disorder.
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Posted on Jun 21st, 2010 |
Students who struggle with perfectionism tendencies may be at an increased risk for eating disorders, according to a new study.
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Posted on Jun 18th, 2010 |
There is a new reason to coach your children on the dangers of peer pressure and the importance of sticking to their own values: a study has identified an association between young women who tend to be conformists and eating disorders.
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Posted on Jun 17th, 2010 |
The terms "food addiction," "food addict," and "food junkie" have long since been incorporated into the American jargon, but new scientific evidence can now justify their implications in the era of the growing American waistband. A study conducted by the Scripps Research Institute and sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) discovered similarities between the brain mechanisms associated to drug addiction in humans with those of compulsive eating habits and the development of obesity. The study is now available in the online version of Nature Neuroscience journal or its May 2010 print publication.
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Posted on Jun 14th, 2010 |
College cheerleaders spend a lot of time in the spotlight. Besides the crowds that come to see the game, there are often television broadcasts highlighting the spirited co-eds as they rally the spectators to cheer the team and coaches carefully evaluating the image of the cheerleaders.
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Posted on Jun 11th, 2010 |
When we hear or read about anorexia or bulimia we usually picture in our minds a thin, young girl. However, eating disorders among males are not uncommon.
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In the 1980s research identified a social clustering of disordered eating among college sororities. The behavior spread through “social contagion,” identifying groups of women who participated in binge eating with their social networks.
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