Posted on Dec 5th, 2011 |
Female college athletes are at a higher risk of developing eating disorders than their male counterparts, and at a higher risk than females who do not participate in sports, according to an article posted on Yahoo Sports. Certain sports, according to the article, tend to be associated with especially high rates of eating disorders, including gymnastics, dance, running and swimming. (more…)
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Posted on Jul 29th, 2010 |
Eating disorders are often seen clustered in certain types of groups, especially groups that are all-female. For instance, cheerleading and sorority groups provide an important outlet for young women to enjoy their hobbies, but an intense pressure to look a certain way sometimes can breed problems in the eating habits of young women that participate in the groups.
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Posted in Research & News
Posted on May 11th, 2010 |
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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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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