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Why do people develop eating disorders? The cause of eating disorders is thought to be multifactorial, including biological (including genetic factors, especially for anorexia and bulimia, and ...
Globally, bulimia was estimated to affect 3.6 million people in 2015. [8] About 1% of young women have bulimia at a given point in time and about 2% to 3% of women have the condition at some point in their lives. [3] The condition is less common in the developing world. [4] Bulimia is about nine times more likely to occur in women than men. [5]
Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is a feeding or eating disorder in which individuals significantly limit the volume or variety of foods they consume, causing malnutrition, weight loss, or psychosocial problems. [1] Unlike eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia, body image disturbance is not a root cause.
From 2018 through mid-2022, visits among people younger than 17 jumped 107.4% across all eating disorders. (Trilliant Health)
Individuals with eating disorders show increased tendencies to direct their attention toward irregular eating-related thought processing and attentional bias compared to non-ED individuals. [3] [4] [5] Studies have suggested a strong link between eating disorders and information processing, such as attention and memory. [4]
In a guest column, the district director of the U.S Labor Department Wage and Hour Division’s Baltimore Office talks about the exploitation of kids.
Emotional eating, also known as stress eating and emotional overeating, [1] is defined as the "propensity to eat in response to positive and negative emotions". [2] While the term commonly refers to eating as a means of coping with negative emotions, it sometimes includes eating for positive emotions, such as overeating when celebrating an event or to enhance an already good mood.
The disorder has been historically documented as affecting only infants, young children, and people with cognitive disabilities (the prevalence is as high as 10% in institutionalized patients with various mental disabilities). It is increasingly being diagnosed in a greater number of otherwise healthy adolescents and adults, though there is a ...