Bollywood actresses drive Indian slimming fashion

2010-03-02T23:16:03Z

<div><p>Bollywood actresses are slimming down, as an increasing vogue for showing bare flesh on screen and Western ideas about body size and beauty take hold in India's big cities.</p><p>Whereas former leading ladies like Mumtaz and Zeenat Aman once found their curvaceous figures no barrier to success, their modern-day counterpa...

How to Find Outpatient Treatment For Eating Disorder

2010-02-22T14:34:42Z

Many people with eating disorders can be effectively treated in outpatient care. However knowing how to access outpatient care can be a major challenge for individuals and families, at the same time as trying to cope with the physical and psychological stresses of the eating disorder.<br><br>Most commonly, the GP is the first professional you see if you are seeking treatment for an eating disorder. There are 1.6 million people in the

What Are The Causes, Effects And Treatment Of Eating Disorders?

2010-02-22T19:06:02Z

Eating disorders all have different symptoms, but basically, each answer from the fact that the individuals who suffer from them have difficulty separating their emotions from their eating habits. Indeed, they might even prefer to use their eating habits to express their emotions and to communicate with those around them. The way and the amount that they eat are seriously affected, and the long run effects can be devastating and sometimes fateful.<br><br>In the

Psychotherapy, guided self-help best for binge eating

2010-02-23T01:30:55Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Certain kinds of talk therapy and guided self-help are both more likely than behavioral weight loss treatment to keep people free from binge eating disorder, according to a new study.</p><p>In prior research, these treatments for binge eating have had similar short-term results. Long-term data, however, have been lacking, according to the r...

Strategies to Avoid Emotional Eating

2010-02-23T10:53:54Z

We all know what can happen. We get ourselves on a diet, losing weight, feeling good about our health and appearance, and then, bam, something happens in our lives and we reach for the goodie bag. We get stressed about work, about our finances, about family and the holidays. And it?s so easy to find comfort in food, especially stuff that?s not so good for us. However, there are strategies we can use to avoid emotional eating.<br><br>First off, one of the biggest cu...

Self-help on par with therapy for binge-eaters

2010-02-23T14:11:07Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - "Out of control" binge eaters who get help from a therapist do better in the short-term than people who use self-help techniques, new research shows.</p><p>But in the long-term, self-help and therapist-led or therapist-assisted approaches seem to have about the same effectiveness, Dr. ...

Kids' mental problems often unaddressed: U.S. survey

2010-02-23T16:20:05Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - About 13 percent of American children and young teens have at least one mental health disorder, yet only about half have been seen by a mental health professional.</p><p>That's according to a survey funded in part by the National Institute of M...

Italy police nab 'paralyzed' Mafia boss on the run

2010-02-24T01:12:21Z

<div id="subtitle">Mafia boss who claimed paralysis and anorexia escapes house arrest, is nabbed at restaurant</div><div><p>A convicted Mafia boss who got out of jail by faking paralysis and anorexia has been arrested at a restaurant after more than two months on the run, police in Sicily said Tuesday.</p><p>Officers arrested Carmelo Di Stefano on Monday as he dined at ...

Britain Kate Moss

2009-11-19T10:33:01Z

FILE - This is a Wednesday, April 1, 2009 file photo of British model Kate Moss as she attends a TOPSHOP TOPMAN flagship store opening party in New York. Campaigners against eating disorders criticized Kate Moss Thursday Nov. 19, 2009, after the supermodel cited as her motto a phrase used on pro-anorexia Web sites. Asked her motto in an interview with fashion Web site WWD, Moss replied that one of ...

Model Moss rapped for 'skinny feels good' motto

2010-02-24T03:16:38Z

<div><p>British supermodel Kate Moss was accused Thursday of giving the wrong message to anorexics and teenage girls when she gave her backing for a slogan encouraging them not to eat.</p><p>Interviewed by fashion industry website WWD about her favourite mottos, Moss said: "There's 'Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels'. That's one of them."</p><p>Campaigners sa...

Model Kate Moss criticized for "skinny" remark

2010-02-24T03:21:29Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - Eating disorder campaigners criticized British model Kate Moss on Thursday for saying she backed the motto "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels," a slogan popular with pro-anorexia websites.</p><p>Health experts said 35-year-old Moss, renowned for her waif-like appearance, had been irresponsible t...

Kate Moss rapped for 'skinny feels good' motto

2010-02-24T03:16:57Z

<div><p>Supermodel Kate Moss was accused Thursday of giving the wrong message to anorexics and teenage girls when she gave her backing for a slogan encouraging them not to eat.</p><p>Interviewed by fashion industry website WWD about her favourite mottos, Moss said: "There's 'Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels'. That's one of them."</p><p>Campaigners said Moss,...

A few months of talk therapy treats bulimia

2010-02-24T21:11:30Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A specific form of talk therapy may help people with binge-type eating disorders stop their unhealthy behaviors with just a few months of treatment, research suggests.</p><p>A multi-study review of psychological therapies for bulimia nervosa showed that bulimia-specific talk therapy, also called cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), compared wi...

My Child Has an Eating Disorder - What Should I Do?

2010-02-25T02:48:57Z

Many parents who suspect their child has an eating disorder are unsure what to do to address their concerns. Although there is specialist advice and support available, it is difficult to access without the co-operation of the sufferer and it is understandable that broaching the subject with a son or daughter, often during their adolescence, can be a worrying prospect.<br><br>However difficult it may be, experts advise parents to try and find the earliest available ...

Girls from educated families more at risk of eating disorders

2010-02-25T04:52:11Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Girls from well educated families who do well at school appear to be more at risk of developing an eating disorder, maybe because they feel more pressure to succeed, according to Swedish researchers.</p><p>A study which followed more than 13,000 women born in Sweden between 1952 and 1989 found that...

Educated family may mean higher eating disorder risk

2010-02-25T05:35:11Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Girls whose mothers, fathers, and grandparents are highly educated may have an increased risk of developing an eating disorder, a new study suggests - particularly if the girls themselves do well in school.</p><p>The study, which followed more than 13,000 females born in Sweden between 1952 and 19...

Psychiatrists call for action on anorexia sites

2010-02-25T05:44:06Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - As the start of London Fashion Week reignites the debate over ultra-thin models, psychiatrists have called on the British government to act over the soaring numbers of pro-anorexia websites.</p><p>Encouraged by social networking sites like Reuters Health) - Gay, lesbian and bisexual teenagers may be at higher risk of binge-eating and purging than their heterosexual peers, starting as early as age 12, a new study finds.</p><p>Past research has found connections between sexual orientation and the risk of eating disorders in adults -- showing, for instance, that gay men have higher rates of sympt...

Florida News - August 31, 2009

2009-09-01T06:05:57Z

083109 biz Kandel...0066552A...Photo by Chris Salata/The Palm Beach Post with story by Bonnie Chynoweth...West Palm Beach...Johanna Kandel, founder and Executive Director of The Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness is an Athen...

Food critic's journey from "baby bulimic" to reviewer

2010-02-25T16:23:02Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Frank Bruni's life-long struggle with food is common story for millions of Americans, but his tale of conquering his eating problem and becoming a top U.S. restaurant critic is not.</p><p>The once "baby bulimic" chronicles his batt...

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