Eating Disorders Topics

Eating Disorders can occur in women and men alike. There are many things one should know if they, or someone they love, is suffering from an Eating Disorder. Below we display a number of Eating Disorders Articles to help get you, or the one you love, onto the path of recovery.

Emotional Eating

We use food to self-soothe. People who have struggled with it, and the professionals who treat it, call it by many different names; compulsive overeating, emotional eating, and food addiction...

Thin Commandments

We go over the "Thin Commandments" and try to extract any other rules they might be living by. Below are the ten most common eating disorder "commandments" I came up with out of countless interviews with patients...

Male Eating Disorders

The Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center says up to 10 million Americans struggle with compulsive eating today, and 10 percent are male...

Diet Myths

Here are a list of rules that relate dieting and eating disorders. It's a difficult trip that no one ever comes out happy...

Why Our Bodies Need Fats

Fat provides needed energy. It is difficult to eat the large amounts of food in a very low fat diet to get all the energy you need...

Importance of Carbohydrates

Carbohydrates are our main source of energy and provide the ideal fuel (glucose) for your body to function optimally, as well as many essential vitamins and minerals...

Importance of Water

Water makes up 50-60% of body weight. All body cells equals 40% of body weight...

Pregnancy Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders and Pregnancy do not mix. You and your baby will be put at great risk for complications and possible death...

Distorted Body Image

As you read through the distortions you will notice that you have favorite ones. Others you will rarely if ever indulge in. Your high-frequency distortions are the ones you need to sensitize yourself to so that your inner alarm sounds whenever they come up...

Body Mass Index Calculator

Please keep in mind that the Body Mass Index Calculator is just an estimate of ideal weight. There are other factors to consider and everyone is different...

Medication Abuse

Here we look at the abuse of over the counter drugs...

Laxative Abuse

When laxatives are taken regularly for a prolonged period of time, one or more adverse effects, some of which are serious and/or dangerous, can occur...

Syrup of Ipecac

Syrup of Ipecac is a poison that the body rejects, causing vomiting. Usually given to children who have swallowed poison, ipecac is used by some Bulimics and Anorexics to induce vomiting after eating.

Diuretic Effects

Diuretic abuse is a practice by some patients with eating disorders. They rid the body of fluid by acting on the kidneys to increase the flow of urine...

Diet Aids

Over the counter (OTC) diet aids are used by many people and some of those people abuse them. These diet aids are dangerous...

Caffeine Effects

Studies have shown that in people who suffer from anxiety and panic attacks, the more caffeine they consume, the more anxiety and depression they feel...

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