Posts Tagged ‘obesity’
Economic anorexia?
In: Anorexia|Dieting|Eating Disorders|Greta|Recovery|Relapse|Treatment
14 Mar 2009In this economic climate, I couldn’t help but be intrigued by a PRNewswire article, titled, “Future of Global Recession Revealed in… a Diet Book?“ while perusing the web for newsworthy eating-disordered articles. Using the Pen and Paper Diet as a platform on which to parallel eating disorders and the disordered (or diseased) economy, the article [...]
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- Tags: anorexia, Dieting, eating disorder, economy, obesity, Recovery, Relapse, Treatment
Fattest cities in America – BED?
19 Jan 2009Editor note: Please welcome Greta, a new contributor to Disordered Times! What do you think is the fattest city in America? Detroit? Phoenix? Kansas City? Los Angeles? Well, according to Men’s Fitness Magazine, Miami takes the cake. Surprised? I have to say the results made my face respond in such a way that could drive [...]
Click the linkage and stay tuned
In: Anorexia|Charlynn|Eating Disorders|Latest Research Findings|Media Reviews|Medical Consequences|Pop Culture|Site News
19 Dec 2008So much news in the last few days, such little time. I haven’t said a word about it, but plenty of others have. I’m taking the lazy way out and giving you links galore since I don’t have an original take on any of it. Since I can no longer blame my lack of input [...]
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- Tags: anorexia, Media Reviews, obesity, smoking
Bulimia doesn’t get much billing in media column spaces. Anorexia often gets the lion’s share of attention, in part, because it’s seen as the more “glamorous” of the two eating disorders. Eating disorders are also still commonly perceived as a “woman’s disease,” or rather, a “girl’s disease” (eating disorders are most common in adolescents, but [...]
Binge eating disorder in the news
In: Binge-Eating Disorder|Eating Disorders|Rachel|Recovery|Treatment
23 Nov 2008Anorexia and bulimia often get the lion’s share of eating disorder attention and resources, but its estimated that the numbers of people with binge eating disorder eclipses both of these conditions. Binge eating disorder rarely makes the news, it seems, but there’s new articles up over at Eating-Disorder.com on what constitutes BED and on the [...]
Obese and Healthy?
25 Aug 2008I’ve missed this place! It’s been quite awhile since my last post, and I’ve sort of been seeking inspiration on blogging for a few months now. I saw this WebMD article, though, and couldn’t pass up the chance to share it. It’s entitled, “Obese and Healthy? Some Obese People Don’t Risk Heart Disease, Diabetes; Some [...]
Would you take a drug for weight loss if it made you as dumb as a rock?
In: Binge-Eating Disorder|Charlynn|Eating Disorders|Latest Research Findings|Medication
24 Aug 2008Have researchers found a magic pill to cure obesity? Maybe, if you’re a binge-eater. Researchers have found that a recently-developed drug for epilepsy helps obese rats lose weight. The drug, Vigabatrin (GVG), also shows promise in treating drug addiction. Tests currently being conducted on cocaine and methamphetamine addicts are determining whether GVG successfully prevents the [...]
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- Tags: binge eating, obesity, Topamax, Vigabatrin, weight loss
If you don’t eat your veggies and exercise, the government may (eventually) make you
In: Charlynn|Legislation
5 Aug 2008Sandy Szwarc talks at length about health legislation in her blog Junkfood Science, so if you read her stuff regularly, none of this will come as a surprise. The Board of Supervisors in San Francisco has voted in favor of “good health” legislation that will ban the sale of cigarettes in drug stores and require [...]
Bullied children at risk for binge-eating
In: Binge-Eating Disorder|Body Image|Charlynn|Children|Eating Disorders|General|Latest Research Findings
28 Aug 2007The Herald Sun in Australia reports that a study conducted on 500 Melbourne kids found a potential risk of binge-eating in bullied kids. Six percent of the children were considered binge-eaters while an additional eight percent said they felt out of control when they ate, but did not overeat. Read more here. The study found [...]
Holidays=BINGE!
In: Anorexia|Binge-Eating Disorder|Charlynn|Dieting|Eating Disorders
23 Dec 2006One thing that always comes to my attention at this time of year is the amount of stories in the media about food and weight. No matter how you read your news, you can find it: everything from the perfect recipe for pumpkin pie to to the latest tips on shedding those holiday pounds. We [...]
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- Tags: Eating Disorders, food, Holidays, media, moderation, obesity
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This is a blog where a roster of three regular writers and several guest writers comment on the latest news about eating disorders. It isn’t just a news feed, nor a personal journal – it’s a hybrid of both. We discuss the news with our own personal spin.
We aren’t journalists or outsiders looking in. We have eating disorders. We know about this illness because we live it. Some of us are thoroughly active in our eating disorders while some are in recovery. Most are in some state in between.
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- Melanie: What a great article. I love the way it comes from the heart and addresses what I think is one of th [...]
- Emily O.: I'd just like to put out there that, having been tube-fed, I found the tube-feeding scene really ups [...]
- Emily O.: THIS IS SO TRUE. I'm in a day program where you bring your own food, and the meal plans they give yo [...]
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