20047 pages
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1370LEating disorders affect both the mind and the body. Although deviant eating patterns have been reported throughout history, eating disorders were first identified as medical conditions by the British physician William...
20114 pages
Disease/Disorder ove...
Disordered eating (DE) refers to a wide spectrum of maladaptive behaviors and attitudes about weight, body image, and food. At one end, it may be an unintentional caloric restriction, with fewer calories consumed than...
20106 pages
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1160LEating disorders are habits or patterns of eating that are out of balance and may involve major health and emotional problems. Eating disorders are not merely unhealthy eating habits; they involve patterns of eating...
20172 pages
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Social norms of body image, including both 21st-century preferences for thinness in women and lean muscularity in men, often causes unhealthy and destructive practices. The pursuit of an ideal weight, along with body...
20011 page
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Eating disorders are characterized by an obsessive preoccupation with food and/or body weight. Eating disorders are rooted in complex emotional issues that center on self-esteem and pervasive societal messages that...
Editors:Judith S. Baughman, Victor Bondi, Richard Layman, Tandy McConnell, and Vincent TompkinsFrom:American Decades
(Vol. 9: 1980-1989. )
2001
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1280LWhen Karen Carpenter, a member of the popular singing duo The Carpenters, read a review that called her "chubby," she began an eight-year obsession with her weight. By 1983, when she died from heart failure from emetine...
20168 pages
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GRL: ZEating disorders are very serious matters that are often about more than food. If you are supplementing your meals with diet drugs, it may be time to take a closer look at what you're trying to achieve. When a person...
20031 page
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1650LEATING DISORDERS are a group of psychological ailments characterized by intense fear of becoming obese, distorted body image, and prolonged food refusal (anorexia nervosa) and/or binge eating followed by purging through...
20105 pages
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1060LAnorexia nervosa (an-o-REK-see-a ner-VO-sa—commonly referred to as anorexia) is an Wendy took ballet since she was five. For as long as she could remember, her dream was to dance professionally after she graduated from...
20113 pages
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It has often been noted that contemporary American popular culture is marked by an obsession with thinness and weight loss. At the same time, there is a worldwide epidemic of overweight and obesity. Many people strive to...
20044 pages
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1380LAn eating disturbance shares many similar characteristics with eating disorders, but is less severe in scope. As a result, many abnormal dietary patterns and behaviors, such as binge eating, excessive exercising, weight...
20043 pages
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1270LThe term body image refers to the view that a person has of his or her own body size and proportion. Body-image distortion occurs when a person's view of their body is significantly different from reality. Many factors...
201412 pages
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You diet, forego the dessert, and spend time looking in the mirror wishing you could change your nose, lower your forehead, or grow more hair. You see all the problems and focus on everything you perceive as wrong. Many...
20113 pages
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Since the passage of Title IX in 1972, female participation in high school athletics has increased by 800%. While such participation has had a remarkably positive impact on girls, women, and sports, some pressures of...
20086 pages
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Special diets are designed to help individuals make changes in their usual eating habits or food selection. Some special diets involve changes in the overall diet, such as diets for people needing to gain or lose weight...
20064 pages
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Pica is the persistent craving and compulsive eating of nonfood substances. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition, classifies it as a feeding and eating disorder of childhood. The...
201611 pages
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GRL: ZMost people want to be happy and healthy. Just about everywhere you look there are ads and articles about how to get fit fast. The Internet, television, and magazines often feature smiling models and actors who are very...
20168 pages
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GRL: ZIt's tough to make healthy eating choices, but in the long run you'll be happy you did. The more positive eating habits and weight you lose, the better your self-image will be and the healthier you'll feel. Consider...
20083 pages
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Rumination disorder may be diagnosed when a person deliberately brings food back up into the mouth and either rechews and reswallows it or spits it out out. Rumination disorder is sometimes called mery-cism. It is a...
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Eating disorders affect both the mind and the body. Although deviant eating patterns have been reported throughout history, eating disorders were first identified as medical conditions by the British physician William...
Eating disorders are habits or patterns of eating that are out of balance and may involve major health and emotional problems. Eating disorders are not merely unhealthy eating habits; they involve patterns of eating...
Eating disorders are very serious matters that are often about more than food. If you are supplementing your meals with diet drugs, it may be time to take a closer look at what you're trying to achieve. When a person...