News tagged with bulimic behavior
Black girls are 50 percent more likely to be bulimic than white girls
An important new study challenges the widespread perception that bulimia primarily affects privileged, white teenagers such as "Gossip Girl" character Blair Waldorf, who battled bulimia on the show earlier this season.
Mar 18, 2009 |
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New brain research suggests eating disorders impact brain function
Bulimia nervosa is a severe eating disorder associated with episodic binge eating followed by extreme behaviors to avoid weight gain such as self-induced vomiting, use of laxatives or excessive exercise. It is poorly understood ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 11, 2011 |
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Expert says doctors not taking eating disorders seriously
A mental health expert from the University of Western Sydney says it is disappointing that, despite the increased knowledge and awareness of eating disorders, some health professionals in Australia are not taking patients ...
Sep 15, 2010 |
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Only the beautiful need apply
Undergraduate women who join a sorority* are more likely to judge their own bodies from an outsider's perspective (known as self-objectification) and display higher levels of bulimic attitudes and behaviors than those who ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 02, 2010 |
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Does this make me look fat?
The peer groups teenage girls identify with determine how they decide to control their own figure. So reports a new study by Dr. Eleanor Mackey from the Children's National Medical Center in Washington DC, and her colleague ...
Jul 01, 2008 |
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Eating disorder Web sites not harmless
Pro-eating disorder Web sites claiming to help adolescents with eating disorders can do more harm than good, a California university study found.
Dec 08, 2006 |
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