Eating Disorders:  Not Just for Women
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They exercise for hours, devise rigid rituals surrounding food, obsessively monitor their weight and yearn to resemble the taut-bodied celebrities whose images grace magazine covers. But the models and actors this group typically emulates are not the skeletal Kate Moss or wispy Nicole Kidman but the chiseled muscularity of soccer superstar David Beckham and actor Daniel Craig, the latest screen incarnation of James Bond....
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Children who gorge and are significantly overweight are at risk of developing the eating disorder bulimia later in life, British scientists have found.
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Women are better at  maintaining their self-control when they drink, researchers find.
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NEW YORK  - A history of anorexia nervosa   does not appear to be significantly associated with pregnancy   complications or negative birth outcomes, according to a study   by Swedish researchers.
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Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Brigham and Womenâs Hospital and Boston Childrenâs Hospital have found that women who increased their intake or consumed higher amounts of sugar-sweetened beverages had a greater magnitude
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NEW YORK  - Women who accept their bodies,   flaws and all, are more likely to eat healthily or intuitively,   new research shows. This suggests that women's typical reasons   for dieting -- dissatisfaction with their bodies -- may   backfire.
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Researchers are discovering that major illnesses like heart disease and lung cancer are influenced by gender and that perhaps treatments for women ought to be slightly different than for men.
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The results of a Swedish study confirm that fetal outcome may be compromised in women with a past or active eating disorder. "These women should therefore be recognized as high-risk patients during pregnancy," Dr. Angelica Linden Hirschberg from Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm told Reuters Health.
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Young sufferers of anorexia and  bulimia who try to hide their eating problems from their  parents and doctors are turning to a growing number of Internet  chat rooms dedicated to perpetuating their illness.
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NEW YORK  - Low levels of the hormone testosterone in women with anorexia nervosa are associated with anxiety, depression and bone loss, Harvard researchers told attendees of the Endocrine Society's 89th annual meeting, in Toronto.
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MONDAY, Jan. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Obesity and depression often go hand-in-hand in middle-aged women, a new U.S. study found.
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A researcher at a Tulsa clinic says a decade-long study into anorexia nervosa is beginning to reveal that those who suffer from the disease might have a genetic predisposition toward it.
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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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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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NEW YORK  - Women who are consistently  overweight or obese during adulthood may be at increased risk  for a decrease in the volume of certain areas of their brain --  according to a study from Sweden
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NEW YORK  - Sitting down for regular family meals may protect teen girls from developing eating disorders, according to a new study published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
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For years, doctors have been relying on a vague nondiagnosis known by the acronym Ednos: eating disorder not otherwise specified.