Although eating disorders disclosed among SJSU students are relatively low, the university offers a variety of resources for those who are suffering, a Student Health Center official said.
Jennifer Waldrop, wellness and health promotion coordinator and nutritionist at the center, said that college is a time of profound change in students' lives.
She said that through college, some students thrive and others become overwhelmed, which she said is a cause of eating disorders, in addition to depression and anxiety.
Freshman English major Katherine Reed said she doesn't want to eat when she's emotionally drained.
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
University helps students with eating disorders
Dieticians to give advice to young people
Youngsters suffering from eating disorders are set to benefit from the help of those with dietician jobs thanks to a new scheme.
The Eating Disorder Service is being set up in Nottingham and will take a multi-disciplinary approach to helping young people overcome such problems.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Obsessive Eating Disorder Can Be Mistaken As Healthy Lifestyle
OLATHE, Kan. - In this age of monster burgers and bulging waistlines, it's good to eat healthy, right? Not when it becomes an obsession. There's no official name for it yet, but many call that obsession "orthorexia."
Laura Hergert developed the obsession through junior high, high school and college. Foods were either good or bad to her. She'd eat only the good ones and she'd spent hours each day thinking about eating healthy and going online between meals and snacks to log everything she ate.
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Dying to look good: A look at eating disorders
Fifteen percent of women between 17 and 24 years old have eating disorders, and one milllion men in the United States struggle with eating disorders, said Joelle Maletis, a marriage and family therapist intern.
Maletis, said 85 percent of girls by age 10 know how to diet. They have tried it because of the pressure from the media and have been influenced to be underweight because of our culture’s belief that stars such as Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton, who look emaciated are beautiful.
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Saturday, November 14, 2009
Alanis Morissette's new outlook on health
Alanis Morissette was the definition of "fierce" when she arrived on the American music scene with one of the big break-up songs of the '90s, "You Oughta Know." But behind that tough exterior were secrets of a difficult past.
"As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic," Alanis Morissette recently told Health magazine for its December issue. "I was a young woman in the public eye, on the receiving end of a lot of attention, and I was trying to protect myself from men who were using their power in ways I was too young to know how to handle."
City eating-disorder clinic closes, despite hefty donations
The sudden closure of a city bulimia and anorexia treatment centre is a "huge loss" to the community, says an eating disorder outreach worker.
"It's a huge loss. I'm dismayed," said Peggy Szucs, executive director of Me Without Measure, an Edmonton eating disorder foundation.
The Society for Assisted Co-operative Recovery from Eating Disorders (SACRED) abruptly closed Oct. 30, after operating in the city for 13 years.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
National Eating Disorders Association Supports Real Women Campaign
The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) has joined leading experts on body image issues from around the world to pledge its support of the global launch of the Real Women campaign, which condemns the use of ultra-thin, digitally altered women in advertisements. A research paper released Monday, "The Impact of Media Images on Body Image and Behaviours: A Summary of the Scientific Evidence,"* examines the psychological effects of consumer society on individuals, particularly media influences on body dissatisfaction, materialism and dysfunctional buying behavior. Signed by 45 leading academics, doctors and clinical psychologists from the U.S.A., England, Australia, Brazil, Spain and Ireland, it details scientific evidence on how the use of airbrushing to promote "body perfect" ideals in advertising is a root cause of an array of serious problems in young women, including eating disorders, depression, extreme exercising and an increase in cosmetic surgery.
Airbrushed images harming girls and boys, experts say
Calling for advertising rules to be changed to restrict the use of airbrushed images, the group of 44 academics doctors and psychologists say that the pictures promote unrealistic expectations of perfection, encouraging eating disorders and self-harm.
The paper has been submitted to the Advertising Standards Agency with a call for all airbrushed adverts to carry a notice making clear the images have been artificially enhanced.
It has been written by Dr Helga Dittmar of the University of Sussex, Dr Emma Halliwell of the University of the West of England and backed by 42 more academics.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Eating Disorders Used as Stress Reduction Technique
As the semester quickly comes to a close, most students find themselves dealing with the stress and anxiety coming from homework, tests and papers. However, some may be under so much stress they practice habits that can put them at risk of developing an eating disorder.
According to the Counseling Center Web site, there are numerous signs and symptoms that are linked to eating disorders. Anorexia is classified by extreme weight loss, unusual eating habits, extreme physical activity, and hair, nail, and skin problems. Anorexics are commonly said to be in denial of their eating problem.
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Even Angelina Jolie’s Eating Disorders are More Charitable Than You Or Me
Most women get into an eating disorder spiral because they’re worried about fitting into a prom dress, or because of a larger need for some semblance of control, or because of the harsh light society casts on women of excess weight. Not Angelina Jolie. According to her brother James Haven, “She sees food differently and she feels guilty about what she has compared with so many starving people who she wants to help.” You may think that becoming so skinny that you could use your collar bone to fight crime is an excessive way to show solidarity with the poor, but celebrities have long been known for their willingness to hurt themselves for the sake of others.
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Orthorexia, Bacon Worship And The Power Of Food Culture
Is it possible for healthy eating to become an unhealthy obsession?
Absolutely.
Orthorexia is a word turning up frequently in the media to describe an excessive focus on healthy eating and dietary restriction. Though the term is not yet an official psychological diagnosis according to the DSM-IV, it is being used by some clinicians to describe patients with eating disorders that resemble obsessive compulsive.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
The most common eating disorder you’ve never heard of
Sara always blots her pizza with a tissue to save calories. Carrie never eats the crust. Margaret professes to love deep dish pizza, but peels off all of the cheese. Mark rarely eats pizza because he doesn’t deserve it unless he runs ten miles first.
Which of these behaviors is normal? Which might be signs of an eating disorder? Sometimes it’s hard to make a distinction.
While perhaps none of these fictional characters would be diagnosed with anorexia, bulimia or a binge eating disorder –- the most commonly referenced eating disorders -– they may each have their own varying levels of undefinable psychological food struggles.
Monday, November 2, 2009
‘Just the sight of food left me in fear’
STARING down at her dinner plate, tears flooding down her face, Abigail Prince felt desperate. Just looking at the food made the 16-year-old feel sick.
And the thought of eating it left her paralysed with fear.
“It was like I was being asked to walk the plank,” says Aba, as the now-19-year-old is known to her friends. “Some days even something as small as a chocolate button was like poison; I’d avoid it at all costs.
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Eating disorder? Blame your mums' diet
A new study has revealed that girls with dieting mothers are more likely to suffer from eating disorders.
The survey involving 512 teenage girls with an average age of 14 said their mothers dramatically influence their self-image and they felt damaged by the effects of their mum's dieting and views on food. The findings revealed that 6 per cent had an eating disorder, rising to 10 per cent among those whose mothers diet.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Smart phone apps might trigger eating disorders
New smart phone or iPhone applications that allow users to monitor their caloric intake and body weight could fuel or trigger an eating disorder, some experts warn.
Though keeping a food journal has been shown to be an effective weight loss tool-- tracking minute details of everything you eat 24 hours a day “fosters the illusion that excessive monitoring of food intake and weight represents a normal, health-conscious lifestyle,” said Dr. Harry Brandt, Director of the Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt in Baltimore.
A Few Cookies a Day to Keep the Pounds Away?
Just ask Christina Kane, who has tried everything from the grapefruit diet to Atkins, with no success. Then she heard about Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet, which involves eating six prepackaged cookies a day, plus one ‘real’ meal — say, skinless chicken and steamed vegetables.
“I thought, ‘That diet looks so incredibly easy,’ ” said Ms. Kane, 43, a legal secretary in Washington, who started paying $56 a week for the prepackaged cookies in June, when she weighed 255 pounds. Three months later, she was 40 pounds lighter. “If you can make it through the first week you’re in the clear,” she said.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
'I thought I'd put on 7 lbs in weight if I ate a biscuit -- and these websites agreed'
After a day of forcing herself to eat nothing but fruit or low-fat jelly, Michelle needs something to help her ignore her body's screaming demands for food and just a click away on her computer are hundreds of people willing to help.
But instead of encouraging her to take care of herself, the websites are devoted to promoting starvation and painful thinness as a perfectly normal way of life instead of as a deadly illness.
H1N1 and Eating Disorders
The 2009 novel H1N1 (swine flu) virus has raised concerns around the world. We know that nutrition can be a big part of helping the immune system function, and a healthy immune system is more able to defend against infection. So, if you have poor nutrition due to an eating disorder, are you at greater risk of catching H1N1?
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Mirror, mirror: Why are American women dissatisfied with their bodies?
American women have a problem.
You can't blame it 100 percent on the media, although researchers estimate women see 400 to 600 images each day promoting weight loss, or a "thin look."
Neither are family and friends unduly responsible for this problem. But they have been shown to contribute.
The bottom line is, most women in this country are dissatisfied with their bodies, according to psychologists and nutritionists. Studies show as many as 86 percent of American women want to lose weight, and girls as young as age 5 have been shown to engage in dieting.
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Tokio Hotel fans think singer is too thin!
The road to pop stardom is known to be paved with endless travel, stress and screaming masses of fans - is it now all getting too much for Bill?
Rumours of the star singer's possible eating disorder started online in the Tokio Hotel fan forums after Bill looked unhealthily skinny in an appearance on German television show “Wetten Das...?” two weeks ago.
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