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With the advent of cell phones that do much more than make and receive calls, applications on smart phones and iPhones that allow users to monitor their caloric intake and body weight could fuel or trigger eating disorders, writes Julie Deardorff of the Chicago Tribune.
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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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The already unrealistically thin Barbie doll is becoming even thinner, as designer Christian Louboutin thinks the doll’s ankles are “too fat” and is redesigning a newer, thinner version due out in the US in May. Examiner.com writer Cindy Adams notes that this move may fuel the already rising incidence of eating disorders among women in the U.S. who strive to obtain impossibly thin figures.
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Girls from well-educated families who do well at school appear to be more at risk of developing an eating disorder, maybe because they feel more pressure to succeed, according to Swedish researchers.
Reuters reports that a study which followed more than 13,000 women born in Sweden between 1952 and 1989 found that as parents’ or grandmothers’ education increased, so did girls’ risk of being hospitalized for anorexia or another eating disorder.
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Eating disorders often begin in childhood and adolescence, so if you’re a parent, it’s imperative to watch out for any signs that your child may be developing a problem with food and/or body image. For people who suffer from eating disorders, thoughts about their physical appearance can consume them, and weight or food becomes all they think about.
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A mother has filed what experts believed to be a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against the Pittsburgh Public Schools, claiming her daughter developed anorexia because male students bullied her about her weight, forcing her to leave the district.
But the Associated Press reports that those experts—including the head of the National Eating Disorders Association—say that linking bullying to anorexia is oversimplification, at best.
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More than 20 years ago, Maggie Baumann was struggling with anorexia while pregnant, a condition called “pregorexia.” Now 48 and living in Laguna Niguel, she’s a therapist who specializes in treating eating disorders.
When she was pregnant with her first daughter, Christine, she gained a healthy 33 pounds. But at the time, the weight felt foreign and unhealthy to her. “My first pregnancy I felt so out of control with my body changes…the stretching of my stomach, the increased size of my breasts…all those changes made me feel like I was losing myself and my identity of being ‘thin’ and in control of myself,” she said.
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Michael Jackson weighed a reported 112 pounds at his death. He was 5 feet 11 inches tall, which would make his body mass index a skeletal 15.6 at the time of his death. A healthy BMI is between 18.5 and 25, and according to the World Health Organization, a BMI of 16.0 is the weight at which one might die of starvation.
Mark Rubi, a writer for www.Examiner.com, poses the question of whether Jackson suffered from anorexia, an eating disorder characterized by an unwillingness to eat. Sources close to Jackson say that he admittedly ate very little, and many who saw him up close over the last few years said he looked very frail.
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People with nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder eat while they are asleep; they also often sleepwalk into the kitchen and prepare food without having any recollection of doing so. If this occurs often enough, a person can experience weight gain and increase their risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The condition is a hybrid of a sleeping disorder and an eating disorder.
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