Causes of Eating Disorders
While eating disorders may begin with preoccupations with food and weight, they are most often about much more than food.
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Eating Concerns and Oral Health
Dietary habits can and do play a role in oral health. Everyone has heard from their dentist that eating too much sugar can lead to cavities, but did you know that high intake of acidic “diet” foods can have an equally devastating effect on your teeth?
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Every Body is Different
It is important to remember that every body is different. We all have different genetics. Even if everyone started eating the same things and did the same amount of exercise for a whole year, we would not all look the same at the end of the year. This is because each person’s genetics influence their
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Health Consequences of Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are real, complex, and devastating conditions that can have serious consequences for health, productivity, and relationships.
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Laxative Abuse: Some Basic Facts
Laxative abuse is serious and dangerous often resulting in a variety of health complications and sometimes causing life-threatening risks.
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Weighing Yourself: Helpful Habit or Unhealthy Obsession?
A major tenet of many weight-loss programs is weighing yourself daily or weekly, but can this practice put your mental health at risk? Experts say yes.
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Ads Can Be Constant Triggers for People With Eating Disorders
People who are struggling with disordered eating experience triggers for their illness everywhere they turn. For one thing, eating is something that people have to do multiple times every day in order to live and stay healthy, which means that disordered eaters have to face their demons with every meal. In addition, advertisements and other
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Negativity, Social Awkwardness Common in Women With Eating Disorders
Recent evidence from a team of Swedish researchers indicates that women with eating disorders other than anorexia have personality traits that largely distinguish them from the general population. Personality traits are the mixtures of long-term thought and behavioral tendencies that help differentiate human beings from each other. These traits develop in childhood and adolescence before
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Kids With ADHD at Higher Risk for Eating Disorders
Recent research has suggested a connection between attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and adult binge eating disorder. Now, a new study from Johns Hopkins University shows that there may also be a connection between childhood ADHD and loss of control eating syndrome (LOC-ES). Loss of control eating syndrome is a proposed diagnostic category for children between
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Surprising Risk Factors for Orthorexia in Young Women
Several 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
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