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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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Orthorexia is an emerging eating disorder that manifests as an obsession with eating only healthy foods. Unlike in anorexia or bulimia, people suffering from orthorexia are not concerned with their weight. However, their food choices often lead to dramatic weight loss, emaciation, and even death.
The problem is that certain foods that contain essential nutrients, such as animal products, are considered by those suffering with orthorexia be unhealthy or impure. However without these essential nutrients, the human body will break down and, eventually, die. Sadly, hard-core orthorexics would rather die than eat food that they consider to be unhealthy. They don’t want to be underweight or die, but their obsessive-compulsive thoughts regarding food quality override their survival instinct.
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What causes eating disorders? The question has been challenging to answer, and in its answer may lie the key to getting better treatment results for anorexia and bulimia. Many researchers believe the causes are complex, a combination of genetic and environmental influences.
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In the process of studying eating disorders and why they impact some individuals and not others, scientists continue to explore causes, environments and psychologies surrounding the disorder. Scientists also want to determine whether or not an eating disorder risk is directly related to other disorders as a clear understanding of one, may help in the treatment of the other.
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Those without an eating disorder may find it hard to understand why those who do feel compelled to approach food in such a way. For those suffering with a binge eating disorder (BED), they will stuff themselves with a day’s worth of food in two hours or less.
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A number of different factors have been highlighted over the years as contributing to the instance of an eating disorder. Such factors can include an unrealistic approach to perfection; a beauty ideal of being thin; an attempt to maintain control; and so much more.
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College students who also happen to be athletes are considered to be in much better physical condition than most college students. A study of 680 student athletes at Ohio State University found that while very few had diagnosable eating disorders, many still had symptoms of eating disorders.
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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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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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