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Anorexia nervosa: body to skeleton
Anorexia nervosa, or anorexia, is a type of eating disorder that mainly affects adolescent girls and young women. A person with this disease has an intense fear of gaining weight and limits t...read more
Anorexia and its causes
What is anorexia nervosa? Anorexia Nervosa is a type of eating disorder. Eating disorders refer to a group of illnesses where someone has a distorted view of body shape and weight and they h...read more
Anorexia gets you in the long term
What is anorexia nervosa ? Anorexia nervosa is the best known of a range of illnesses classified as eating disorders. Anorexia nervosa literally means “loss of appetite for nervous rea...read more
Binge eating disorder
Binge eating disorder is an illness that is more common in women and that has similar symptoms to the eating disorder, bulimia nervosa. Like bulimics, binge eaters have episodes of uncontrolled eating...read more
Binge eating disorder and its health consequences
What is binge eating disorder? People with binge eating disorder often eat an unusually large amount of food and feel out of control during the binges. People with binge eating disorder also may: ...read more
Bulimia nervosa
Bulimia nervosa, or bulimia, is a type of eating disorder. Someone with bulimia eats a lot of food in a short amount of time (bingeing) and then tries to get rid of the caloriesread moreDo you have an exercise addiction?
For some people, exercise can become compulsive, to a degree which is as physically, psychologically and emotionally destructive as ingesting chemica...read more
Eating disorders and body image
Eating disorders and body image dissatisfaction were once the domain of an obscure branch of psychiatry. But in recent decades, our culture has bombarded people with images of an ideal physique that is increa...read more
Eating disorders are life threatening
Unfortunately a lot of young people suffer from eating disorders. They are a way of coping with feelings that make you feel low. People can get obsessive with exercise, what they eat, how much they eat, when ...read more
Food addiction
Bulimia nervosa is characterized by cycles of bingeing and purging. Bulimia nervosa usually begins early in adolescence when young women attempt restrictive<...read more
Food for comfort
What is comfort eating? It is not uncommon for people to eat when they feel sad, angry, hopeless, bored or lonely. Eating may make you feel better in the short term. Some foods, such as chocolate, affect the...read more
Nutritional therapy treats the body as a whole
Allergies Allergies should be viewed as symptoms of the whole body picture. Why are you disposed to getting allergies in the first place, rather than what are you allergic to? This is a very important question, because if yo...read more
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
People with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) suffer intensely from recurrent (happens over and over) and unwanted thoughts (obsessions) or rituals (compulsions), which the...read more
Signs pointing to anorexia
What to look out for? Anorexic boys and girls display similar physical and psychological changes as their illness starts to take hold, although boys are more likely to be concerned with their athleticism, whilst girls are mu...read more
Teenage years: coping with acne
A common misconception is that only teenagers are prone to acne. This is utterly false because acne can appear in older people even those over 40. It is in fact a chronic problem for some.Ano...read more
Teenagers and eating disorders
Eating Disorders are common with young adolescents, especially girls. Anorexia and Bulimia Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia is a preoccupation with becoming fat and trying to obtain the perfect body shape.Ther...read more
Teenagers and eating habits
It is so frustrating when we have spent ages cooking a healthy meal and the kids turn their noses up at it. Even young children can use food as power and making an issue of what they eat can easily slip into a power struggle ...read more
Tips to care for someone who is anorexic
One of the main things you should do as a carer, is keep the network of support tight around the sufferer until such time as it is not needed as frequent. As a carer you should aim to perform the following ro...read more
Triggers for (boy) anorexia
1. Going through a very early puberty. It is no coincidence that many cases of anorexia start in puberty, both in boys and girls. With girls the reason seems more obvious as they look in the mirror and ...read more
What are eating disorders?
Eating disorders are often described as an outward expression of internal emotional pain and confusion. Obsessive thoughts about, and the behaviour associated with, food are maladaptive means of dealing with ...read more
What is and causes bulimia ?
What is bulimia? Bulimia Nervosa is a type of eating disorder. Eating disorders is the term used to describe a group of illnesses where someone has a distorted view of body image and extreme...read more
What is binge eating disorder and are the effects ?
What is binge eating disorder? Most people overeat every now and again and it is not uncommon to occasionally feel as though we have eaten more than we should have. However, regularly consuming large amounts of food when you...read more
What is binge eating?
Is your eating making you feel depressed, do you turn to food for comfort, in times of stress, unhappiness, boredom? Do you feel your eating is out of control are you obsessed with food and your weight; is yo...read more
What to do if your son has anorexia
For parents and carers who are concerned that a boy in their care is developing anorexia:1. Make sure you and your child understand how much an active teenagers needs to eat in order to grow. He/she may...read more
