eating disorders
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 the food she eats. She has a low body weightread 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 have extreme disturbances in their eating behaviour. People wh...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 reasons”. The main diagnostic criteria for anorexia is that ther...read more
Association of slimming with eating disorders
Chronic obesity is a very difficult condition to treat and the statistics are appalling. Of patients who lose weight on any particular diet or exercise programme 90% put it all back on again within a 2-year period.Losing weight in the short...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 or bingeing. But, binge eating disorder differs from buli...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: eat more quickly than usual during binge episodes eat unti...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 calories by purging. Purging might be done in these ways: mak...read more
Bulimia: one of the fastest growing neuroses in the Western world
If not stopped, starving, stuffing, and purging can lead to irreversible physical damage and even death. Eating disorders can affect every cell, tissue, and organ in the body. The following is a partial list of the medical dangers associated...read more
Do 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 chemicals. Like other addictions (gambling, work, alcohol), the n...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 increasingly out of reach for the average person. According to eating dis...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 they eat, who they eat with and how much they weigh. If one has an ...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 chemicals in the brain that regulate your mood. For that reason, y...read more
Golden rules of dieting
The golden rule of dieting is to make rules that can be kept. This means that the must be practical, flexible and able to withstand weddings, weekends and holidays. I would recommend a daily energy intake of between 4.2 and 5.0 MJ (100...read more
How can you tell if someone has anorexia ?
There are various ways in which anorexia nervosa can be detected. The main point to remember is that people with anorexia are the masters of disguise. It must be appreciated that anorexia is predominantly a mental illness. The visible side is purely an effect of the illne...read more
Hypnotherapy for weight control
Most people tried numerous diets or slimming programs with little in the way of lasting results. More and more people are realising that there may be another solution to help with weight loss. Hypnotherapy is proving an inva...read more
Many people with addictions and eating disorders also suffer from depression
Depression is a psychological condition that changes how you think and feel, and also affects your social behaviour and sense of physical well-being. Depression can affect anyone. Once identified, most people diagnosed with depression are successfully treate...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 you are suffering from chronic symptoms, whether cau...read more
Osteoporosis: what makes good quality bone?
Broken bones bring pain, deformity and loss of independence People with osteoporosis have fragile bones that break easily. As more of us live longer, the fractures that result from osteoporosis are reaching epidemic proportions – half of the women in ...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 much more concerned with their basic body image. One of the key diffi...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.There are all sorts of reasons why these disorders may develop. The mai...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 between parent and child. It doesn't have to be this way though. (h...read more
The dangers of anorexia
Anorexia can be very dangerous if it is not caught early. I am not a doctor so cannot comment on the specific medical dangers of anorexia, but effectively the body is being starved of its fuel. In its most progressed state, little or no amounts of food are being received ...read more
The recovery route
The route to recovery of an illness of this kind can only be described as performing an uphill obstacle course. Do not be disheartened by this though, as it is worth it. All involved will turn out better people in the end. There are various stages throughout the recovery...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 roles:1. Be supportive.2. Encourage.3. Keep smiling, have your own te...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 see a more rounded shape developing. Boys tend to be more happy wit...read more
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