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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NEW YORK  - A new study of preteen girls has found that seriously disordered eating behavior, such as binge-eating and purging, is exceedingly rare in this age group. However, the researchers did find that among the 9- to 13-year-olds they surveyed, 13 percent reported dieting at some point in the previous month.
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Children who are overweight and eat too much risk the binge eating disorder bulimia as adults, say psychiatrists.
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NEW YORK  - Adequate nutrition can rebuild bone mass in women with anorexia, but the restoration of normal menstrual periods appears to be necessary for fully normal bone metabolism to be recovered, a new study shows.
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(HealthDayNews) -- Some people -- most often children -- experience bouts of severe nausea and vomiting that alternate with longer periods without symptoms.
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Eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia have gotten  plenty of attention in recent years. But the first attempt to document how common eating disorders are nationwide  produced  surprises.
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Girls who are overweight as toddlers risk reaching puberty as early as nine years old, a study suggests.
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Binge eating is more common than anorexia and bulimia, but is not yet officially classified as a psychiatric disorder.
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FAT children are three to five times more likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke before they reach the age of 65, health campaigners warn.
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By Dawn Fallik, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Sep. 11--Katie Erb was sick, and it wasn't a pretty sight. The 4-year-old was diagnosed with rotavirus and she was the sickest her mother had ever seen her.
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NEW YORK  - No matter what their weight or their eating habits, young women feel worse about themselves and their appearance after viewing pro-anorexia websites, which explicitly encourage extreme thinness, a new study shows.
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Â· Children's eating habits even worse than adults Â· Food-related ill health can cost NHS Â£6bn a year
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Among teens in one Los Angles public school, 60 percent reported dieting at some point in their lives -- primarily before the age of 14 -- and many said they skipped meals or vomited to control their weight.
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City kids, like their country cousins, are struggling with weight problems, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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A new UK study indicates that many parents of obese children have no idea their offspring have a problem. Researchers based at Plymouthâs Derriford Hospital carried out a survey involving 277 children and
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Todayâs warning by the World Health Organization and the World Heart Federation is more sad news for overweight kids. Worldwide, the WHO says, there are 18 million overweight children under the age of five
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The number of American children with chronic health problems such as obesity, asthma and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder has soared in the past four decades, foreshadowing increases in adult disability and public health-care spending, researchers said yesterday.