Awareness is critical with eating disorders
Sarah Campbell
Issue date: 2/14/08 Section: News
The following excerpt was posted on www.experienceproject.com by a young girl with a problem. "I have lost so many things to this eating disorder. I regret doing it everyday. Yet it's so hard to stop."
February has been named National Eating Disorder Awareness Month by the National Eating Disorder Association.
These problems affect virtually every college campus, according to Sarah Silverman, the social cause marketing manager for the Experience Project, an operation aimed at improving statistics on eating disorders.
It has been reported that 40 percent of college women in the U.S. have an Eating Disorder, and this works out to one in every two college girls on facebook.
According to www.cignabehavioral.com, as many as 10 million females and one million males are struggling with an eating disorder in the United States. About 25 million are suffering from binge eating disorders.
There are three main eating disorders
Anorexia nervosa results in excessive weight loss from self-starvation. There are two subcategories of this disorder. The restricting type would involve the person restricting his/her intake of food and possibly over exercising.
Bulimia nervosa results in a person secretively binge eating and following such overeating by purging themselves by vomiting, laxatives, enemas, diuretics or over-exercising.
A binge eating disorder involves someone having times of uncontrolled, continuous, or impulsive eating. It normally results in obesity in an individual.
Other eating disorders combine the symptoms and signs of the three disorders previously mentioned. Cases that do not fall within one of the three may not be considered full disorders, but are still serious.
The Signs, The Reasons
Eating excessively at one meal, spending a lot of time in the bathroom after meals, and obsessive working out are all signs that there may be a problem, according to Philip Hestand, ASU Director of the counseling and career planning center.
February has been named National Eating Disorder Awareness Month by the National Eating Disorder Association.
These problems affect virtually every college campus, according to Sarah Silverman, the social cause marketing manager for the Experience Project, an operation aimed at improving statistics on eating disorders.
It has been reported that 40 percent of college women in the U.S. have an Eating Disorder, and this works out to one in every two college girls on facebook.
According to www.cignabehavioral.com, as many as 10 million females and one million males are struggling with an eating disorder in the United States. About 25 million are suffering from binge eating disorders.
There are three main eating disorders
Anorexia nervosa results in excessive weight loss from self-starvation. There are two subcategories of this disorder. The restricting type would involve the person restricting his/her intake of food and possibly over exercising.
Bulimia nervosa results in a person secretively binge eating and following such overeating by purging themselves by vomiting, laxatives, enemas, diuretics or over-exercising.
A binge eating disorder involves someone having times of uncontrolled, continuous, or impulsive eating. It normally results in obesity in an individual.
Other eating disorders combine the symptoms and signs of the three disorders previously mentioned. Cases that do not fall within one of the three may not be considered full disorders, but are still serious.
The Signs, The Reasons
Eating excessively at one meal, spending a lot of time in the bathroom after meals, and obsessive working out are all signs that there may be a problem, according to Philip Hestand, ASU Director of the counseling and career planning center.
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