The term eating disorder is used in psychiatry to denote two closely related syndromes, anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa (and their variants). The central feature of these disorders is a set of characteristic beliefs and values concerning the...

Eating disorders, one of the most difficult mental illnesses to diagnose and cure, are divided into three categories: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating. Frequently, sufferers flatly deny they have a problem, and treatment by doctors...

Collective name for psychiatric syndromes involving BODY WEIGHT and eating disorders. Eating disorders might vary from the loss of appetite observed in cancer ANOREXIA to HYPERPHAGIA observed in PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME. However, the term eating disorder...

Eating Disorders 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 equate thinness with...

An eating disorder is a complex compulsion to eat, or not eat, in a way which disturbs physical and mental health. Often the symptoms can seem as extreme, or as extensions of culturally acceptable behavior and preoccupations. The eating may be excessive...

Eating Disorders Medical Management of Eating Disorders C Laird Birmingham, Pierre Beumont. New York (NY): Cambridge University Press; 2004. 289 p. US$55.00. Reviewer rating: Excellent In any comprehensive eating disorders program, the internist, an important member of the eating disorders treatment team,...

Eating disorders are common conditions which are on the increase. Although adolescents and young women are most at risk, they can affect adults and young children. Eating disorders can have severe medical consequences, but may go undetected and treated. In the first of two...

Hair strands reveal evidence of a person's diet and can help doctors diagnose eating disorders, researchers at Brigham Young University reported. Researchers found differences in nitrogen and carbon when samples from females at an eating-disorder clinic were compared with hair...

Frequent binge eating is the country's most common eating disorder, far outpacing the better-known diet problems of anorexia and bulimia, according to a national survey.Psychiatric researchers at Harvard University Medical School and its affiliate, McLean Psychiatric Hospital, have billed the study as the first national...

“[Western society] is still a man’s world, in which girls are taught from an early age to be both self-critical and painfully self-conscious. Every day we experience an avalanche of messages telling us that specific women are too fat [or]...

Persuasive essay on the relationship between developing eating disorders and dieting.

The history and development of eating disorders in women

Describes eating disorders, specifically anorexia and bulimia, as well as lesser known disorders. Explains symptoms and underlying psychological causes.