Anorexia Nervosa affects about 1 percent of women and 0.3 percent of men over the age of 15. It can cause serious health problems, including digestive system damage, hormonal damage and even heart attacks. If new research is accurate, girls with anorexia may also be at risk of stunted growth.
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Do Psychiatric Disorders Share Common Genes?
Many distinct psychiatric diseases share a common genetic structure, according to new research by scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, an international team of investigators. Psychiatric disorders affect more than 25 percent of the population in a given year. In the largest-ever study of its kind, published in the journal… Continue reading Do Psychiatric Disorders Share Common Genes?
Take Diet Pills Now For An Eating Disorder Later
If you’re a young woman who doesn’t have an eating disorder now, but really wants one, there might be a simple way to get it! Diet pills and laxatives! There’s no guarantee, but according to the good folks over at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and at Boston Children’s Hospital, it’s probably a… Continue reading Take Diet Pills Now For An Eating Disorder Later
The (Worst) Eating Disorder You’ve Never Heard Of
Eating disorders. The very phrase sounds awful. What does it take for one of the essential activities of life to become “disordered?” Doctors, nutritionists, psychiatric and psychological professionals and researchers have been digging in on that very subject for quite a while now. One thing they agree on is that, contrary to the statements of… Continue reading The (Worst) Eating Disorder You’ve Never Heard Of