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In many families, the time for eating and the choice of food varies as widely as the number of people in the house. In some households, children make their own sandwich before settling in front of a television in their own rooms, while in others, one family dinner may be prepared, but busy schedules don’t allow for everyone to sit down together. (more…)
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People often associate eating disorders with teenagers and young women. However, as children are entering puberty sooner and growing up faster, they are also being hospitalized for disorders like anorexia and bulimia nervosa at younger ages. There has been a significant increase in the number of children under the age of 13 being admitted to hospitals for eating disorders. (more…)
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Do you have a teenager for whom weight is a perennial concern? Does your daughter (or son) go from bingeing to purging, with weight fluctuation a constant concern? Have you tried without success to get your child to understand the dangers inherent in such serious yo-yo dieting? You’re not alone. Millions of parents in America struggle with this issue, wondering how to best help their children overcome issues with eating. (more…)
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Individuals who develop problems with eating that result in a disorder of some kind generally suffer from something they wish they didn’t have. Now, according to a recent
USA Today report, young girls are now yearning to develop an eating disorder as a means to achieve the status of being “cool”.
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When treating adolescents with anorexia nervosa, involving parents in their therapy has been found to be twice as effective as individual psychotherapy in achieving full remission, according to a new study.
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Adolescence is a time of transition for young people, and a period in their lives in which there is a high level of attention placed on physical appearance. The combination of shifting hormones with pressure to fit a certain image can be the perfect breeding ground for eating disorders.
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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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Four years ago, when Jenna (name has been changed) decided she needed to lose weight, she tried every diet from Atkins to Weight Watchers. When those didn’t work, she became a vegetarian, writes Marina Khidekel of Teen Vogue. “I read somewhere that most of the fat you eat comes from meat,” says Jenna, now sixteen, from New York City. But when she stopped eating meat, Jenna started obsessing about everything she ate.
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A new study finds that teenage girls look at their friends and other schoolmates and peers to determine their feelings about body weight. The study, published in the March issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, shows that a girl attending a school where the average body mass index is high is less likely to diet, and a girl attending a school where the average BMI is low would be more likely to try to lose weight.
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The UK’s Mirror reports that record numbers of school-age girls are being treated for eating disorders. Last year, girls under 18 were admitted to NHS hospitals with problems related to anorexia and bulimia 794 times, a 55 percent increase from 2004-2005, which saw 512 cases.
Girls aged 15 were the most likely to need treatment for their condition, with 194 admissions in the age group last year. But eating disorders have been diagnosed in girls as young as eight.
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