Surprising Risk Factors for Orthorexia in Young Women Articles>Eating DisordersBy The Ranch TNNovember 4, 2015Several factors help predict the presence of the unofficial eating disorder known as orthorexia nervosa in young women, according to recent findings from a group of Polish, Italian and Australian researchers. People with orthorexia nervosa have an obsession or preoccupation with healthy eating that destabilizes mental well-being and/or damages the ability to function in everyday…
Using Twitter Could Help Smokers Quit Articles>Drug Addiction, Helpful ArticlesBy The Ranch TNNovember 4, 2015A new study has suggested that using Twitter to communicate with other smokers in a stop-smoking program can increase rates of quitting, as long as the tweets are related to abstinence, use of nicotine patches, countering roadblocks to quitting and expressing confidence about quitting. Although social media has been investigated for health interventions before, lack…
