Dale Knuth, now 58, says that in childhood her weight was a source of anguish — largely because of how her family treated her. “I had a brother who tormented me constantly,” she says. “If I came home from school and was hungry and ate an apple, I’d be called a cow, or a pig…
DetailsIs an obsession with “clean eating” a bona fide mental disorder deserving of its own diagnosis in psychiatry’s official manual of mental illness? A flurry of new studies and reviews is breathing new life into so-called orthorexia nervosa, loosely defined as a pathological fixation on eating “pure” foods. At its extreme, adherents shun all sugar,…
DetailsCheck the video here NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – There are an estimated 30 million people in the U.S. with an eating disorder. Now, CBS2’s Dr. Max Gomez reports that new research has found that there are certain genes that make a person more likely to develop a serious eating disorder. For 10 long and difficult years, Cayetana Martinez…
DetailsDiscovery of metabolic causes opens door to new treatments for dangerous eating disorder. Scientists have found that the devastating eating disorder anorexia nervosa is not purely a psychiatric condition but is also driven by problems with metabolism. The finding may help to explain doctors’ poor record in treating the illness and pave the way for…
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