Posted on Dec 31st, 2010 |
Candace Cameron Bure is best remembered for her teenage role on Full House as the Tanners’ eldest daughter, DJ. Now the 34-year-old mother of three, wife of NHL player Valeri Bure, and star of ABC’s sitcom Make It or Break It has written a new book titled Reshaping It All, where she discusses the importance of good health in order to lead a happy life. And, for the first time, the lifelong television star has openly revealed her secret battle with bulimia, a struggle with poor body image that began on a nationally broadcasted stage.
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Posted on Nov 29th, 2010 |
A new report discovered that eating disorders are increasing among children and teens, especially among male children and minorities. The American Academy of Pediatrics reports that an estimated 0.5 percent of adolescent girls in the United States suffer from anorexia nervosa, and that 1 to 2 percent suffer from bulimia. Surprisingly, young males represent up to 10 percent of eating disorder cases.
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Posted on Aug 26th, 2010 |
For millions of Americans, eating disorders have caused havoc, despair, pain, and loss. Family members of an anorexic or bulimic person understand the anguish and desperation involved when struggling to intervene and treat a loved one who has become entrapped by this serious mental illness. Although eating disorder sufferers are more difficult to intervene with than individuals with more common mental disorders, recovery is possible with long-term physical and psychiatric treatment, backed by dedication and family support.
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Posted on Mar 3rd, 2010 |
Researchers have found that undergraduate women who join a sorority are more likely to judge their own bodies from an outsider’s perspective (known as self-objectification) and display higher levels of bulimic attitudes and behaviors than those who do not take part in the sorority’s recruitment process. Over time, those women who join the group also show higher levels of body shame. These findings, part of Ashley Marie Rolnik’s senior honors thesis at Northwestern University in the US, are published online in Springer’s journal Sex Roles.
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Posted on Feb 17th, 2010 |
About 10 million women in the United States struggle with an eating disorder such as anorexia or bulimia, with millions more suffering from binge eating disorder. Despite those staggering figures, many young women are unaware of the devastating physical and psychological effects of eating disorders.
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Posted on Feb 4th, 2010 |
After battling anorexia and bulimia, Lisa Himmel teamed up with her mother, Sheila, to write a book about her experience.
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Posted on Jan 11th, 2010 |
Researchers from the University of Minnesota Project Eating Among Teens (EAT) have identified factors that may increase overweight adolescents’ risk of engaging in extreme weight control behaviors such as self-induced vomiting, the use of diet pills, laxatives, and diuretics, as well as binge eating.
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Posted on Nov 17th, 2009 |
Singer Alanis Morissette recently opened up to Health magazine about her troubled past, admitting she was both anorexic and bulimic as a teen. "I was a young woman in the public eye, on the receiving end of a lot of attention, and I was trying to protect myself from men who were using their power in ways I was too young to know how to handle,” she is quoted as saying in the December issue of the magazine.
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Posted on Nov 2nd, 2009 |
Members of Minnesota’s St. Cloud State University’s Delta Phi Epsilon sorority hosted an event to raise awareness about the problem of eating disorders on college campuses across the United States.
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Posted on Oct 21st, 2009 |
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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