Age no barrier to anorexia, illness afflicts children
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Marg Oaten's daughter was a happy, healthy girl who loved table tennis and drama until at the age of 10 she developed anorexia. Twelve years on she is still fighting the illness, which almost killed her.
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Girls as young as five are sensitive about their bodies in a &quot;weight-hostile&quot; environment that equates popularity and attractiveness with thinness, an international conference of experts has heard.
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Babies who are born heavy and grow  fast have a 150 percent chance of being overweight or obese by  the time they are seven years old, a survey of more than 8,000  children in Hong Kong has shown.
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The number of U.S. children with  chronic health problems such as obesity has soared in the past  four decades, foreshadowing increases in adult disability and  public health-care spending, researchers said on Tuesday.
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Great Ormond Street has treated children as young as seven or eight for eating disorders, a doctor says.
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Worldwide, it is estimated that more than 22 million children under five years old are obese or overweight, and more than 17 million of them are in developing countries.
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Scientists know so little about a disorder that links a strep infection with obsessive-compulsive disorder in children that some question whether it even exists.
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When Krystina Brugh fell ill in January, her parents thought it was the stomach flu. They fed her crackers and her favorite sandwich, peanut butter and marshmallow fluff, to give her strength. She didn't get better. Soon, the 11-year-old couldn't even keep down water, and her kidneys started to fail.
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Overweight children are stigmatized by their peers as early as age 3 and even face bias from their parents and teachers, giving them a quality of life comparable to people with cancer, a new analysis concludes.
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Children as young as three are being treated for obesity, according to one leading UK expert.
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An international charity says overweight children are three to five times more likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke before they reach 65 than slimmer youngsters.
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A study finds that a motherâs gestational diabetes is significantly associated with obesity in her children at ages 5 to 7.
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NEW YORK  - For women recovering from anorexia nervosa, achieving a normal percentage of body fat seems to indicate that they have a good chance of beating the disease long-term.
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Lack of food and education still afflict millions of children around the world, with nearly 10 million youngsters under age 5 dying each year from preventable diseases, the U.N. children's agency said Sunday.
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NEW YORK  - Research in psychiatrically ill children and adolescents suggests that those with depression, anxiety and other so-called "internalizing" disorders are more likely to have allergies.
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A startling number of parents may be in denial about their youngsters' weight.
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Excessive eating and piling on the  pounds when young could be warning signs that children will  develop bulimia as adults, psychiatrists said on Tuesday.