Eating Disorders in Men: An Interview With Dr. Roberto Olivardia
Huff Post Healthy Living
Dr. Roberto Olivardia is a clinical instructor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and assistant psychologist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass. He maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Arlington, Mass., where he specializes in the treatment of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and compulsive skin-picking. He also specializes in the treatment of eating disorders in boys and men. Dr. Olivardia is a co-author of The Adonis Complex, a book which details the various manifestations of body image problems in men, including eating disorders, BDD, steroid use, and cosmetic surgery.
What inspired you to specialize in eating disorders in men?
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Brain Reward Systems Of Obese Women Different From Those Of Women With Anorexia: Study
Huffington Post
The brain reward systems of women with anorexia may work differently from those of women who are obese, a new study suggests.
Researchers from the University of Colorado School of Medicine found that women who are anorexic have sensitized brain reward circuits, while women who are obese have desensitized brain reward circuits.
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Tyra Banks applauds Vogue decision to nix too-thin models; Mag to ban models under 16 who appear to have eating disorders
Daily News
The model turned talk-show host is praising Vogue magazine for its recent pledge to stop using too skinny models or girls who appear to suffering from an eating disorder.
The fashion tome will reportedly no longer feature models under the age of 16.
Banks called Vogue’s decision “the beginning of something huge."
In an open letter to The Daily Beast, Banks talked about her own struggles to keep her weight down to a size 4 and the unhealthy things women did to keep thin.
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Is your daughter or son trying to hide anorexia?
The Mirror
When a child or teenager feels they’re being controlled by the people around them, they use anorexia to seize control back.
I was deeply saddened recently to read that anorexia had claimed the life of Charlotte Seddon, a lovely girl of 17 and a star student who had everything to live for.
Yes, it’s a salutary story. She first stopped eating when she was 12.
Like many anorexics, she was bright and devious enough to fool her parents that she was eating (despite profound weight loss).
Anorexics cleverly cover their tracks spreading crumbs, leaving buttery knives on the table, false traces of toast uneaten and consigned to the bin when no one is looking.
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Dukan Diet guru struck off medical register after saying children who lose weight should be given extra marks at school
Daily Mail
A diet guru whose fans include the Duchess of Cambridge's mother has been struck off the medical register in France after being accused of misadvising teenagers.
Pierre Dukan, 70, asked to be removed from the doctors’ list at his own request because he was facing disciplinary action.
The nutritionist had used a book to propose ideal weights for 17 and 18 year-old school pupils, giving them extra exam marks if they kept to them.
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Bournemouth charity I*Eat bridges anorexia divide
BBC News Dorset
There are more than 200 new cases of anorexia and bulimia in Dorset every year. The youngest patient in the county is just 10 years old.
But this could be just the tip of the iceberg.
Health professionals estimate there could be as many as 1,500 people with eating disorders in the county, many of whom do not come forward for fear of becoming stigmatised.
I*Eat in Bournemouth is a charity that aims to bridge the gap and help vulnerable people get their lives back on track - people like Vicky Field.
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Find I*Eat Org here.
Birmingham TB victim Alina Sarag 'given bulimia warning'
BBC News Birmingham & Black Country
A 15-year-old girl died of tuberculosis (TB) after being told she may have bulimia during appointments with health professionals, an inquest has heard.
A GP allegedly advised Alina Sarag, who attended Birmingham's Golden Hillock School, that her physical deterioration was due to mental health problems.
Alina was treated for TB after being diagnosed with the disease in 2009, Birmingham Coroner's Court heard.
She appeared to recover from the condition, but died in January 2011.
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Healthbeat Report: Uncontrollable Overeating
ABC News
When healthcare professionals diagnose mental illness, they usually turn to the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders or DSM. This so-called bible of psychiatry is undergoing a major and somewhat controversial overhaul. Already under the category of eating disorders are anorexia and bulimia. Now something called binge eating disorder may join the list as its own diagnosis.
So when is eating too much a true illness? Experts say there are telling signs.
The stories of binge eating patients are similar. Embarrassed, ashamed, they would eat at times till it hurt.
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Mirror, mirror: Palo Alto JCC event looks at media’s role in negative body image
J.Weekly
Sydney Calander is so accustomed to hearing her women friends tear down their own appearances that she hardly notices it anymore.
“Honestly? It’s been like that ever since I can remember,” says Calander, 20, a junior at Pitzer College in Southern California. “Around the time I turned 12 or so, I became aware of all my friends getting really critical about their bodies, the way they looked — how they felt they had to look in order to be loved, or to attract a partner.”
As a student at San Francisco’s Jewish Community High School of the Bay, Calander made sure not to let her own similar thoughts spiral into negative behavior.
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Could airbrushing ban curb desire to be thin?
Express and Star
We have a love-hate relationship with food – and both extremes of consumption come with a massive health warning.
A young woman who almost died in a four-year battle with anorexia that plunged her weight to four and a half stone has now launched a campaign to ban airbrushed images showing super-slim celebrities in glossy magazines.
Rachael Johnston, who is now aged 20 and a “healthy” size eight, wants children to be protected from the kind of images she says led to her eating disorder.
On the one hand, we want to stop the obesity epidemic that is making many of us – and our children – so unhealthy.
But on the other we don’t want to drive youngsters to extreme dieting.
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Diagnosing a public health problem: Photoshop
Philly.com
Why is it that the fatter America gets, the more unrealistically thin our ideal of what people should look like becomes? It's not just a perplexing paradox. It poses a threat to the public’s health: our nation’s obesity crisis may eventually be coupled with anorexia and bulimia crises as well.
As noted in my post last week, America is in the midst of an obesity era. Thirty-seven percent of adults and 17 percent of kids are obese, and no one is particularly happy about it. All the while, Americans are bombarded with digitally manipulated (a.k.a. “photoshopped”) images of models that are impossibly thin and blemish free.
As highlighted by recent stories by the New York Times and BBC, young women in the U.S. and abroad have began to protest the photoshopped female form and the notion that they should strive for a body that — by virtue of skeletal constraints — is literally unobtainable.
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Eating disorders increase risk of dying prematurely, large study shows
Examiner
A disease of vanity? Think again. Although this stereotype of eating disorders continues among the public and even some mental health professionals, new research confirms that eating disorders are serious —and lethal. Jaana T. Suokas, MD., presented findings from a new, large scale study at the prestigious American Psychiatric Association Conference held in Philadelphia yesterday.
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Research Study for Moms of Anorexic Boys
Laura's Soap Box
Are you the Mother of a Son who has received inpatient treatment for Anorexia Nervosa?
If so, please consider participating in this important study, which seeks to explore and document the psychological and social caregiving experiences of these mothers.
To date, there have not been any published research studies that have focused exclusively on parents of sons with anorexia.
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