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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 34, Issue 5)BOSTON -- A brief depression-prevention program can significantly reduce depressive and bulimic symptoms among high-risk dysphoric adolescents, a randomized trial has shown. In a study of 116 participants 14-21 years...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 323, Issue 7303) Peer-ReviewedAn evaluation of the treatments for bulimia is presented. Treatments include cognitive behavioral therapy, other psychotherapies, antidepressants, and psychotherapy combined with antidepressants. Definition Bulimia...
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From:Journal of the American Dietetic Association (Vol. 90, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBulimia is an eating disorder characterized by binging and purging (vomiting) in order to lose weight or prevent weight gain. While it was once believed that individuals followed either normal or abnormal eating...
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From:Patient Care (Vol. 29, Issue 18) Peer-ReviewedBetween 2% and 18% of the US population have either bulimia nervosa or anorexia nervosa. The conditions are defined, and early warning signs are described. The types of people at highest risk, screening techniques and...
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From:JAAPA-Journal of the American Academy of Physicians Assistants (Vol. 24, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedDiminished bone mineral density (BMD) in the presence of amenorrhea was first documented in female athletes in 1984. (1) Although regular physical activity should increase bone mineral density, young female athletes...
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From:European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (Vol. 62, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedObjective and design: This study systematically examined salivary composition and taste perception and monitored related subjective complaints in a group of bulimia nervosa (BN) patients. Subjects: Fifty-two...
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From:Psychiatric Times (Vol. 26, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWomen with bulimia nervosa (BN) respond more impulsively during psychological testing than do women without eating disorders, according to a recent article in Archives of General Psychiatry. (1) Functional MRI showed...
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From:Journal of Heart Centered Therapies (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPettinati, H. M., Home, R. L., Staats, J. M. (1985). Hypnotizability in Patients with Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia. Archives of General Psychiatry, Vol. 42, 1014-6. Hypnotizability was assessed with the use of three...
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From:Journal of Phenomenological Psychology (Vol. 35, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT This article is concerned with the childhood experience that seems to be preparatory for the onset of bulimia. Three women's serial experiences of bulimia (reported in 4 interviews describing specific...
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From:Consultant (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA 16-year-old girl of normal weight for height (body mass index, 21) was evaluated for a 6-month history of binge-purge cycles and amenorrhea. She met the diagnostic criteria for bulimia nervosa and began treatment that...
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From:Journal of Diabetes Nursing (Vol. 7, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIt is estimated that 5% of women with diabetes are bulimic. However, according to Dr Neil Holden, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist in Nottingham, this number may be a lot higher in reality. Dr Holden described eating...
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From:Journal of the American Dietetic Association (Vol. 96, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBinge eating is a grave and common problem among people who are overweight. This disorder is found in men and women, although it is somewhat more prevalent among women, and commences in late adolescence or in the early...
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From:The PractitionerPeer-ReviewedAuthor: Dr Laura G Currin BA, PhD, Research psychologist, King's College London How can eating disorders be recognised? When is referral indicated? What treatments can GPs initiate? Eating disorders are...
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From:Archives of Disease in Childhood (Vol. 85, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn the everyday story of ordinary folk swallowing a toothbrush is not a commonplace event. But toothbrushes can be used for purposes other than that for which they were designed. A young woman in Germany (Lancet...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 327, Issue 7411) Peer-ReviewedDescription Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder that affects women 9-10 times more often than men. It has three key features: * Intense preoccupation with body weight and shape * Repetitive episodes of binge...
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From:Journal of the American Dietetic Association (Vol. 90, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA questionnaire entitled "Are you dying to be thin?" was distributed to male and female college students; 970 completed the form. Eighty-one percent of the respondents were women and nineteen percent were men. They were...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedObjective There is a need to improve treatment for individuals with bulimic disorders. It was hypothesised that a focus in treatment on broader emotional and social/interpersonal issues underlying eating disorders...
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From:Adolescence (Vol. 33, Issue 131) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Twenty-four female adolescent bulimic inpatients were randomly assigned to a massage therapy or a standard treatment (control) group. Results indicated that the massaged patients showed immediate reductions...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Jochen Seitz 1,*, Berrak Kahraman-Lanzerath 1, Tanja Legenbauer 2,4, Lea Sarrar 3, Stephan Herpertz 4, Harriet Salbach-Andrae 5, Kerstin Konrad 1, Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann 1 Introduction Recent evidence...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 31, Issue 19)Although women's bodies appear to recover from bulimia, their brains may not, said Dr. Walter H. Kaye and his colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh. A PET scan of the brains of 9 formerly bulimic women and 12...