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Category: Articles>Eating Disorders

Causes of Eating Disorders

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While eating disorders may begin with preoccupations with food and weight, they are most often about much more than food.

Eating Concerns and Oral Health

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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…

Every Body is Different

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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…

Health Consequences of Eating Disorders

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Eating disorders are real, complex, and devastating conditions that can have serious consequences for health, productivity, and relationships.

Laxative Abuse: Some Basic Facts

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Laxative abuse is serious and dangerous often resulting in a variety of health complications and sometimes causing life-threatening risks.

Weighing Yourself: Helpful Habit or Unhealthy Obsession?

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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.

Ads Can Be Constant Triggers for People With Eating Disorders

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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…

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Negativity, Social Awkwardness Common in Women With Eating Disorders

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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…

Kids With ADHD at Higher Risk for Eating Disorders

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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…

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Surprising Risk Factors for Orthorexia in Young Women

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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…

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Category: Articles>Eating Disorders

Category: Articles>Eating Disorders

Causes of Eating Disorders

Eating Concerns and Oral Health

Every Body is Different

Health Consequences of Eating Disorders

Laxative Abuse: Some Basic Facts

Weighing Yourself: Helpful Habit or Unhealthy Obsession?

Ads Can Be Constant Triggers for People With Eating Disorders

Negativity, Social Awkwardness Common in Women With Eating Disorders

Kids With ADHD at Higher Risk for Eating Disorders

Surprising Risk Factors for Orthorexia in Young Women

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