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  • Binge Eating Disorder Treatment
    By: alleysmith | - Binge Eating Disorder is a disorder in which people use food to satisfy a variety of emotions in order to cope with them. People may binge when they experience any negative emotion, such as anger, sadness, or depression. Another reason a person may binge is shear boredom.

    Binge eating is usually kept a secret. A food addict will usually overeat in private to avoid others finding out about their disorderly eating habits.

    Binge eating disorder is probably the most common ...

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  • The Challenges Of Overcoming Binge Eating
    By: sel123 | - Binge eating is a disorder that affects about four million Americans. Because there is much more to overcoming binge eating than curtailing food intake, physicians and psychologists have developed treatments and strategies to help sufferers control their addiction to food. However, as with any treatment program, there are quite a few pitfalls to watch out for that may slow the process of overcoming binge eating. Here are some of the major challenges:

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  • Effective Steps To Overcoming Binge Eating
    By: sel123 | - Binge eating affects about one in every 50 people in the United States. But even though it is the most common eating disorder in the U.S., it does not receive as much publicity as similar maladies, like bulimia, anorexia, and depression. As a result, there is still quite a social stigma attached to binge eating, leaving many of its sufferers feeling isolated and hopeless. However, it is important to realize that there are steps you can take to stop the cycle of binge eating.

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  • Binge Eating Disorder Information
    By: jimmy jack | - Binge eating or uncontrollable eating is a habit which can be controlled. It is like other habits, and once you learn to master it you can easily get rid of it.

    The mind is the battleground: Binge eating is mostly in the mind. A person begins the binging episode because they are under tremendous emotional pressure to binge. Therefore, overcoming binge eating also begins in the mind. Believe that you can get over it and the most difficult step is taken

    Serious binge eate ...

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  • Your Teen And Eating Disorders
    By: Emile J | - As unfortunate as it is, you need to think about your teen and eating disorders, because people are starting to worry about their bodies at a younger and younger age. In fact, about 15 percent of young women suffer from some kind of eating disordermost commonly anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or binge eating. While most adults have more experience with their own bodies, most teens are still getting used to major physical changes and raging hormones. This leaves them more susceptible to ...
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  • What To Do When An Eating Disorder Causes You To Fight With Your Child
    By: Emile J | - If you suspect or know that your teen is suffering from an eating disorder, you are probably doing everything in your power to help him or her. Unfortunately, its likely that your child is not interested in your help, and could actually lash out at you for offering your advice or ordering him or her to do something else. You need to find out what to do when an eating disorder causes you to fight with your child, because just getting angry with him or her will probably cause an even bigger fig ...
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  • What Is Anorexia?
    By: Emile J | - What is anorexia? Youve probably heard a lot about it all throughout your life, maybe starting in public school health class. They go over how anorexic patients have a distorted reality and think theyre fatter than they really are, or how they will use excessive exercise, laxatives, and extreme dieting to lose weight or to keep from gaining weight. However, there is more to anorexia than just this.

    One big difference is in the term anorexia itself, versus anorexia nervosa. Mos ...

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  • What Is A Binge Eating Disorder?
    By: Emile J | - The binge eating disorder is probably more common than you might think. Out of all the people around you who are quite overweight, what percentage of them do you think are eating out of an addiction or mental need for food, rather than mere gluttony? Even if you arent like that, you can try to relate to how they feel. Think about what its like when you havent eaten for most of the day and you have those big hunger pangs that are telling you: Youd better go eat! How easy is it f ...
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  • What Is The Causes Bulimia?
    By: Emile J | - Have you ever wondered what causes bulimia? How can a normal, friendly young man or woman go from healthy and seemingly happy to bulimic? Why does it happen? Whose fault is it, really? Well, unfortunately, the fault cant really be attributed to any one place in most cases, but simply the overarching message that you arent good enough no matter what you look like. Even the most attractive people on the planet are worried that someone will pass them up in looks, or that they wont be able ...
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  • What Are The Types Of Eating Disorders?
    By: Emile J | - Millions of males and females are suffering from eating disorders, and the worst part is, those statistics only reflect the known cases. There are easily just as many suffering from eating disorders who are completely unknown and undetected by their friends and loved ones. You probably know someone right now who seems completely normal and healthy, but who is only maintaining that image by resorting to one of the three main types of eating disorders.

    There are a number of reasons wh ...

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  • Treatment For Eating Disorders In Adolescents
    By: Emile J | - One of the first things to do in seeking treatment for eating disorders for adolescents is to admit to yourself that its possible that your adolescent could be suffering from an eating disorder. You might think youre a pretty open-minded person, but it can be very hard, even for a free-thinking individual, to accept that your teenager has an eating disorder.

    This is because parents will often jump to the conclusion that their childs eating disorder is all their fault, and ...

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  • The Symptoms Of Eating Disorders
    By: Emile J | - There are more people than ever suffering from eating disorders, and in order to identify them and help them, you have to be aware of the symptoms of eating disorders. There is a shocking statistic: an estimated 5-10 million females and 1 million males are seriously afflicted by anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and other eating disorders. If you take into account that these are only the reported numbers, and that many of the sufferers dont seek treatment, you might se ...
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  • Binge Eating Disorder "€" Causes, Symptoms And Treatment
    By: jasminesmith | - People with binge eating disorder (also known as compulsive overeating or food addiction) not only consume large amounts of food but are obsessed with food and food related thoughts, often thinking about what they are going to eat next while they are in the midst of a binge and going through elaborate planning and extreme lengths to get the foods they think are going to satisfy their strong cravings.

    Binge eating disorder is a condition that probably affects millions here in the Uni ...

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  • Are You Suffering From An Eating Disorder?
    By: Emile J | - When youre in a normal, healthy mindset, youll usually know when youre doing something harmful to yourself. In the case of people with an eating disorder, they will often have such psychological trauma that they no longer know whats right, or they no longer care. In many of these cases, they are so far gone that they only know what makes them feel better, which just reinforces the negative behavior and symptoms of an eating disorder. Are you suffering from an eati ...
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  • How To Tell If You Have An Eating Disorder
    By: Emile J | - The modern concept of an eating disorder is largely the product of the fashion industry in the 1990s. As models became thinner and thinner, the media glorified this new trend, and stick-thin women began appearing on magazine covers, in commercials, and anywhere else. Once a fashion trend has started, there will always be people that take it too far. Unfortunately, this type of trend was more than just spending money on the newest designer jeans. This one glorified starvation.

    A woma ...

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  • Addictive Eating Disorder
    By: Emile J | - While overweight people are often ridiculed, sometimes it is not simply a matter of choosing to be overweight; sometimes its an addictive eating disorder. This is not to say that there arent some lazy people who dont take care of themselves, but there are also people who would love to be healthy and fit, but have an addiction that is every bit as serious and difficult to control as alcohol or tobacco cigarettes.

    There are very few people who dont occa ...

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  • Eating Disorder - Major Health Problem But Still Treatable
    By: Tis Amit | - Today eating disorder is one of the major health issues that the world population is facing. Millions of people from every age group are facing this health problem. As per latest statistics nearly around 10% of all eating disorder cases are reported to take place in young children who are 10 years old or less, and 86% of the cases are reported in individuals who are 20 years and older. Moreover, according to recent studies, it is even estimated that the number of people suffering from eating dis ...
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  • 9 Types Of Food That Are Extremely Important For Your Eating Disorder Recovery
    By: Irina Webster | - I am often asked what kind of food I would recommend for eating disorders sufferers that can help them to develop new neuronal pathways in order to stop their eating disorders.

    Of course my first suggestion would be to eat a balanced meal but I do have certain foods I can recommend to make brain changes easier. Here is my list:

    1. Omega- 3 acid products: Omega -3 fatty acids are essential fatty acids but it cannot be manufactured by the body. For this reason omeg ...

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  • Eating Disorder Facts: Clearly Show The Need For A Cure
    By: Eddie Lamb | - People with eating disorders can go both ways. That is eating too much or too little and in either case, they threaten their health. The National Institute of Mental Health has compiled eating disorder facts within three main illnesses.

    Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and binge eating disorder, although binge eating is known as a problem, it hasn't yet been recognized as a serious mental health disease that community surveys claim affects anywhere from two to five percent of the ...

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  • Eating Disorder Association: Proof That You Are Not Alone
    By: Eddie Lamb | - People suffering from eating disorders like Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder feel as if they're the loneliest people on Earth. They guard their "shameful secret" so completely that they live in a world of isolation of their own making. They usually have no idea where and how to seek help through an eating disorder association even if they were to emerge from denial and admit they have a serious, life-threatening illness.

    Both state and federal agencies p ...

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  • Eating Disorder And The Media: Share Responsibility For The Blame
    By: Eddie Lamb | - A lot of people connect an eating disorder and the media for the way those suffering are portrayed in the press. With the fashion industry seemingly pushing for smaller and skinnier models and the press portraying them as something special, there is plenty of blame for an eating disorder and the media can be partially responsible.

    In Spain, the country recently placed a minimum weight on models, recognizing that serious health problems can develop from anorexia nervosa, bulimia ne ...

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  • Children's Eating Disorder: Can Occur At Different Ages
    By: Eddie Lamb | - Children aged fourteen to fifteen begin to suffer children's eating disorder and this may peak at the age of eighteen. Girls in their adolescent years find themselves suffering from children's eating disorder and the incidence among boys also seems to be on the rise. Peer pressure and a child's self-esteem are note-worth causes also.

    Anorexia causes the child to experience an overwhelming fear of becoming overweight and leads them to force them to become thin with a resulting rest ...

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  • Understanding The Cause Of Eating Disorder
    By: Eddie Lamb | - Many theories abound as to what is the cause of eating disorder and there are many interwoven factors that may be attributed to it though there is no simple answer that would adequately answer why a person has an eating disorder. For different people different factors may come into play and all of them together combine in producing starving, stuffing as well as purging.

    More Possible Causes

    Some researchers have recently found that genetic factors may be the reaso ...

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  • Understanding About A Binge Eating Disorder Treatment
    By: Eddie Lamb | - A binge eating disorder is one out of the many eating disorders out there today, and if you are interested in learning about this disorder, then you should know that there are many things that you will have to take into consideration.

    What is This Disorder?

    A binge eating disorder is a relatively newly recognized condition which is estimated to affect millions of Americans at the present time. What happens is that people who suffer from this disorder tend to frequ ...

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  • Binge Eating Disorder: An 'unofficial' Diagnosis
    By: Eddie Lamb | - The American Psychiatric Association currently recognizes only three categories of Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (for pathological eating behavior not meeting criteria for Anorexia or Bulimia).

    Although binge eating disorder is not necessarily an "official" mental health-related disorder, it is just as devastating to those who suffer from it as those disorders that "made the cut" with the APA. To diagnose it, men ...

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  • Eating Disorder Treatment Center Facts
    By: Matthew Stanton | - Eating disorder treatment center provides therapeutic ways to cure eating disorders including physiological treatment, social treatment and so forth. Disordered eating patterns occur in persons who fluctuate between food restriction and episodes of excessive calorie or fat intake. Generally people with eating disorders hide their problem. Through this center you will have the opportunity to cure the disorder without embarrassment because the people are professional and has already been dealing w ...
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  • Recognizing And Fighting With Adolescent Eating Disorders
    By: Eddie Lamb | - Eating disorders are found in all age groups however the highest number is registered in adolescents. Many of those who discover that they have an eating disorder later in life realize that it all started in their adolescence.

    What Causes Eating Disorders

    There are many causes to eating disorders such as: self-esteem, wanting to fit in a group or team, stress, to desire to stand out in a way or the other and so on. Eating disorders are both when you over eat or when ...

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  • Basics Of Binge Eating
    By: AndrewB | - Almost everyone overeats every now and then , having seconds or thirds of a big meal or eating an entire pizza while watching a scary movie. Sometimes, though, overeating becomes a regular occurrence, surrounded with shame and secrecy. It's called binge-eating disorder, a serious eating disorder in which you frequently consume large amountsof food.

    Those who suffer from binge eating disorder (also known as compulsive overeating or food addiction) not only consume enormous amounts ...

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  • Technique To End Binge Eating
    By: AndrewB | - Even though binge eating is somewhat similar to bulimia, the main difference is that binge eaters don't purge themselves of the ingested food. What they share with bulimics is the desire or need to find comfort in eating and the fact that all their control is lost when eating.

    What are the main causes of binge eating ?

    It is kind of difficult to conclude the exact cause or causes of binge eating. However, research show that the following may be some of the causes:< ...

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  • Binge Eating Disorder
    By: AndrewB | - With the increase of obesity in today's society everyone is looking for quick weight loss. This is a bad idea, and can lead to developing binge eating disorder. Eating disorders are psychiatric abnormalities in one's eating habits. Tabloids display the secret eating disorders of movie stars and music artists. Yet the news never discuss how serious these eating disorders really are, and how common they are.

    Most quick weigh loss techniques require crazy unrealistic diets. Obvi ...

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  • A Low Fat Diet May Not Be Right For You To Lose Fat And Weight
    By: Clive Calvin | - There has been a big push for some time now that if you want to lose weight, you should try a low-fat or fat-free diet. Food companies have made billions of dollars by offering foods and packaged foods and marketing them as low fat. Just go to the frozen food freezers and look at all the containers from lean cuisine to south beach foods to even what people call generic low-fat foods.

    Has the nation as a whole lost any weight? Unfortunately, the answer to this is a resounding no. ...

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  • Tips To Loss Belly Fat Fast!
    By: Clive Calvin | - What is belly fat? How can you get rid of it? Can you get rid of it? The answers to these questions are yes. We will look at what belly fat is and how we can get rid of it.

    The fat that you find in your belly is the kind of fat that surrounds various organs. There are two kinds of fat in our body. One is found underneath the skin surface and is called subcutaneous fat.

    The other kind of fat is what is causing your belly fat and this is found deep within the body. L ...

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  • Does A Low Carbohydrate Diet Get Rid Of And Help You Lose Stomach Fat Fast?
    By: Clive Calvin | - There are many well-known diets that are considered low-carbohydrate diets. Some of these diets are the Atkins diet, the South Beach diet and the Zone Diet to name just a few.

    The main gist of this type of diet is to limit the intake of foods that are high in carbohydrates. This article will give you some things to think about and will help you make the decision as to whether this type of diet is for you.

    A good place to start in our discussion of low-carbohydrate ...

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  • What Is Binge Eating Disorder?
    By: Debra Gropp | - What exactly is binge eating disorder? It is defined as consuming large quantities of food within a very short period of time until the person feels uncomfortably full and/or sick. It is similar to bulimia except there is no form of purging involved following a binge episode.

    Those who suffer from binge eating disorder usually feel out of control during an episode followed by guilt and shame afterwards. Most people who experience these binges use food as a way to numb themselves i ...

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  • Emotional Eating And Binge Eating--the Connection
    By: Richard Kuhns | - Emotional Eating is the association with food and emotions. They can be pleasant or unpleasant. The quantity of food consumed can be small or large.

    Binge eating is related with a large quantity of emotional eating-akin to stuffing one's face-finishing the whole bag of potato chips or the quart of ice cream. Binge eating is also usually connected with a non nutritious source of food.

    However, most people do not understand that their eating is emotionally based. Th ...

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  • Binge Eating Disorder "€" Symptoms And Causes
    By: Peter Hutch | - Binge eating also occurs in another eating disorder called bulimia nervosa. Persons with bulimia nervosa, however, usually purge, fast, or do strenuous exercise after they binge eat. Purging means vomiting or using a lot of diuretics (water pills) or laxatives to keep from gaining weight. Fasting is not eating for at least 24 hours. Strenuous exercise, in this case, means exercising for more than an hour just to keep from gaining weight after binge eating. Purging, fasting, and overexercising ar ...
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  • 5 Key Elements Of Successful Eating Disorder Treatment
    By: Tricia_Greaves | - If you suffer from an eating disorder or obesity and are searching for a solution, its important to know that not all help is equal. Eating disorder treatment is extremely expensive ($1,000 a day) and so is on-going therapy. And how can you be sure that the treatment you are seeking will work?

    Having been helping people with eating disorders, weight loss and addictions for 20 years, and having overcome an eating disorder myself, I have identified 5 key points that I believe are ...

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  • Bulimia Nervosa | Bulimia Symptoms | Bulimia Treatment
    By: Alexx | - The term bulimia means excessive or abnormal desire for food which is better described as ox-hunger. Bulimia Nervosa disorder has the character of repeating occurrence of binge eating which develops the person with lack of sense for having no control on eating behavior and encourages self-induced vomiting and intake of laxatives and drugs to get rid of this eating habit. This eating disorder is usually of three main types; Bulimia Nervosa, Anorexia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder. It involves ...
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  • Secrets To Binge Eating Disorder Treatment
    By: Jason Jantzi | - One of the hardest parts of dealing with binge eating is talking about the problem. Embarrassment often prevents people from discussing their binge eating with anyone - including their doctor. However if you suffer from binge eating, the first step to getting help is to tell the people who are able to assist you about your problem.

    Mild to moderate depression is often the root cause of binge eating. The feelings of depression initiate the binge eating, and the binge eating in turn ...

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  • Eating Disorders - Binge Eating What Is It?
    By: Kerris Samson | - Only the last few years have medical professionals actually begun to recognize that binge eating is another eating disorder. Yes we are all pretty familiar with anorexia and bulumia because of the noteriety they have gained because famous people are always admitting they suffered from them. But where as with bulimia once the food has been eaten the person will then try different ways of purging it from their body as soon as possible. However with binge eating rather than not eating enough or ...
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  • Binge Eating Disorder - Causes, Symptoms And Treatment
    By: Juliet | - Binge eating disorder is probably the most common eating disorder. Binge eating also occurs in another eating disorder called bulimia nervosa. People with binge eating disorder frequently eat large amounts of food while feeling a loss of control over their eating. This disorder is different from binge-purge syndrome (bulimia nervosa) because people with binge eating disorder usually do not purge afterward by vomiting or using laxatives. Binge eating disorder is a little more common in women than ...
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  • Binge Eating Causes Symptoms Information With Treatment
    By: Juliet | - Eating binges can be called compensatory behaviour. Binge eating disorder is a little more common in women than in men. People who binge may eat when they're not really hungry and continue eating even long after they're uncomfortably full. After a binge, they often try to diet or eat normal meals. people with binge-eating disorder often have numerous behavioral and emotional signs and symptoms. Include is depession or anxiety, eating until the point of discomfort or pain ,eating much more food d ...
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  • Prevent Eating Disorders In Order To Maintain A Healthy Body
    By: Nishanth Reddy | - Preventing eating disorders can be possible with some preventive measures. However, there was a query that rose among many health professionals and eating disorder patients whether preventing eating disorders is possible or not.
    According to latest investigations, there are a number of preventive measures that can be taken so as to preventing eating disorders. Preventing eating disorders measures are needed to adopt by those family members where there are past records of eating disorders ...

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  • Sugar-coating Stress
    By: Carol Solomon | - Got stress?

    Most people do . . . and it can be hard to deal with. Stress takes its toll, both mentally and physically. Stress is listed as one of the major contributing factors to just about everything these days. And if you already have some physical or mental ailment, stress will make it worse.

    No matter what causes your stress, you need ways to deal with it.

    And it's EASY to reach for chocolate that immediate, sweet life preserver that doesn't tal ...

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  • The Teen Eating Disorder Defense Mechanism
    By: Jerry Cahill | - Adolescence can be a very stressful time when people begin gaining independence and discovering who they are. The teen years are when people establish new friendships and also when they find that their body has begun to develop. When a person enters puberty, it can be a very stressful, confusing and frightening period.

    A lucky few can make the transition from childhood to adulthood with no major problems. However, many who may develop a teen eating disorder as a way to cope with ...

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  • Are Eating Disorders Related To Bad Habits (part 2)?
    By: Keith Crovatt | - copyright 2007 Keith Crovatt

    What are 5 important steps to take control of your eating disorders? In "Are Eating Disorders Related To BadHabits (Part 1)" we discussed the various types of eating disorders and some examples that will hit home with many readers. In this article, we want to explore 5 ways to break an eating disorder habit.

    *The first step is often the most important and is the hardest to accomplish! Nothing ever happens in life until you actually ma ...

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  • Are Eating Disorders Related To Bad Habits (part 1)?
    By: Keith Crovatt | - Eating disorders are characterized by an abnormal obsession with food and weight. Eating disorders are much more noticed in women than in men due to the fact that men often don't seek help.

    We believe, that for most people, a link exists between habits formed long ago and eating disorders.

    An eating disorder is a complex compulsion to eat in a way which disturbs physical, mental, and psychological health. The eating may be excessive (compulsive over-eating); to limi ...

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  • Are You A Binge Eater?
    By: Carol Solomon | - Copyright 2006 Carol Solomon

    Ever wonder if you have a serious problem with binge eating?

    In a recent issue of the Harvard Mental Health Letter, I read a feature article about the treatment of bulimia and binge eating.

    Bulimia is defined as 2 or more episodes of binge eating (consuming a large amount of food in 2 hours or less) at least twice a week for 3 months.

    These episodes may be followed by vomiting or purging (with laxatives or d ...

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