Eating Disorder

Young Vegetarians Are At Risk Of Eating Disorders
by eNotAlone.com
Vegetarian teenagers and young adults are believed to eat a healthy diet, but they might be at an increased risk of developing eating disorders and unusual behaviors, compared to their meat-eating peers.

Anorexia Affects More And More Teenage Girls
by eNotAlone.com
The national Health Service (NHS) has revealed in its recent survey that there has been a significant raise in the number of young girls admitted to hospital suffering from eating disorder called anorexia.

Bulimia Connected With Brain Abnormalities
by eNotAlone.com
A new study carried out by a team of experts from Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute shows that women with eating disorder are way more impulsive than healthy women.

Connecting the Dots
Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders
by Aimee E. Liu
If you've ever suffered from an eating disorder-or cared for someone who is anorexic or bulimic-you may think you understand these illnesses. But do you really understand why they occur? Do you know what it takes to fully recover?

Understanding Binge Eating Disorder
by National Institute of Health
Binge eating disorder is a condition that millions of Americans may have. People with binge eating disorder often eat large amounts of food and feel that they can’t control their eating.

Eating Disorders Awareness Week
by SAMHSA
Eating disorders are real, treatable medical illnesses that involve serious disturbances in eating behavior. The most commonly diagnosed types of eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

Teens: Eating Disorders Require Medical Attention
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
In one recent year alone, more than 20,000 people - many of them teenagers - were diagnosed as having anorexia or bulimia. The cause is unknown, but treatment of these eating disorders is crucial to avoiding serious - even fatal - health problems.

Eating Disorders
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Eating disorders are not due to a failure of will or behavior; rather, they are real, treatable medical illnesses in which certain maladaptive patterns of eating take on a life of their own.

Part 1
It Was Food vs. Me ... and I Won
by Nancy Goodman
It's not like the bagel was fresh. It was discarded. It wasn't sitting on a plate with garnishes of lettuce, cream cheese, or tomato. It was on the car floor. It wasn't that I had no other options, like the homeless who scrounge for any available food

A True Victorian Medical Mystery
The Fasting Girl: A True Victorian Medical Mystery
by Michelle Stacey
On June 8, 1865, eighteen-year-old Mollie Fancher went shopping in Brooklyn, New York. Two months short of her nineteenth birthday, she was tall, well made, willowy, with light wavy hair and an oval face.

You Should Feel Lucky
Food and Loathing
by Betsy Lerner
It is 1972. I am twelve years old. It is the first day of sixth grade, and I am standing in the girls' gymnasium waiting to be weighed. My last name begins with L, so I am exactly in the middle of the line.

Overeating - A Symptom, Not the Cause
Breaking Out of Food Jail: How to Free Yourself from Diets and Problem Eating, Once and for All
by Jean Antonello, R.N., B.S.N.
Overeating has been identified as the singular cause of weight gain, and if it really is we are left to explain the cause of the overeating. Here is where all our colorful theories come in.

Love Hunger or Food Hunger?
Breaking Out of Food Jail: How to Free Yourself from Diets and Problem Eating, Once and for All
by Jean Antonello, R.N., B.S.N.
The symptoms of eating disturbances we've looked at never seem to develop in people who aren't trying to get or stay thin by ignoring their hunger and eating less food than they need.

Eating Disturbances - What's What?
Breaking Out of Food Jail: How to Free Yourself from Diets and Problem Eating, Once and for All
by Jean Antonello, R.N., B.S.N.
Along with the traditional definitions of the best-known eating disorders, anorexia and bulimia, we'll discuss some popular descriptive labels: bulimarexia, compulsive undereating, compulsive overeating (including emotional overeating), food addiction

To Eat or Not to Eat, That Is the Obsession
Breaking Out of Food Jail: How to Free Yourself from Diets and Problem Eating, Once and for All
by Jean Antonello, R.N., B.S.N.
Nowadays, the person who is able to eat freely and enjoy her dining experiences from day to day, unhampered by guilt, anxiety and a dozen other pressures, is truly an exception. If you ever come across a person like this, don't you hate her?

Not for Teenagers Only: The Rise of Midlife Eating Problems
Runaway Eating: The 8-Point Plan to Conquer Adult Food and Weight Obsessions
by Cynthia M. Bulik, PH.D., Nadine Taylor, M.S., R.D.
Problematic eating has long been considered the almost exclusive territory of troubled teenage girls and young women. We've all read about Karen Carpenter's self-induced starvation and Princess Diana's bingeing and purging.

Introduction
You Can't Quit 'til You Know What's Eating You
by Donna LeBlanc, M.Ed.
Do you find it impossible to have just one Twinkie? Do you start a new diet every Monday? Do you feel trapped by your eating habits? This book is about permanent weight loss. It stresses that understanding, not depriving, produces the results you want.

Chapter One
From the First Bite: A Complete Guide to Recovery from Food Addiction
by Kay Sheppard, M.A.
Do you know you talk a lot about food and weight? My recovery from active food addiction started with those words from a friend. Since I wasn't aware, I answered, No, I didn't realize that.

A New Beginning
Food Addiction: Healing Day By Day, Daily Affirmations
by Kay Sheppard, M.A.
In years gone by, New Year's Day was the day to make resolutions: time to start a new diet, join a gym or develop a new self-improvement plan. Usually the resolutions were the same as last year's. Now that we are in recovery, each day is a new beginning.

Chapter One
Ravenous: The Stirring Tale of Teen Love, Loss and Courage
by Eve Eliot
An astounding sequel to the acclaimed young adult reality novel, Insatiable, this brand new book is filled with turmoil and turbulence as it follows the whirlwind journey of three young women and two young men.