Characteristics of Major and Minor Eating Disorders
There are many types of eating disorders. We are most familiar with the three major disorders Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder. However, there are many minor disorders effecting millions of people like Prader–Willi Syndrome and Night Eating Syndrome. This is a short list of both major and ...
Eating Disorders in Very Young Children
The astronomic rise in the number of children suffering from eating disorders is very disturbing. According to recent studies, approximately 40% of today's children aged nine have already tried dieting to various extents. If you find this disquieting enough, what would you feel if I told you that researchers also ...
Bulimia and Health Complications
Bulimia is generally characterized by periods of bingeing and purging. Bingeing may be defined as an episode wherein an individual consumes a large amount of food in a short period of time, but bingeing can take on a different definition for everyone. Some may consider 1,000 to 10,000 calories a ...
Tips for Anorexia Sufferers
Anorexia can set off serious health threats. It wreaks havoc on almost every single organ in the body and may cause irreparable damage. It may even cause death due to heart failure, kidney failure or suicide.
People suffering from anorexia desperately need help. They cannot get well all by themselves. They ...
Bulimia - The ABCs of the Disease
Bulimia, technically known as bulimia nervosa, is an eating disorder characterized by bingeing and purging. Bingeing happens when a person eats a much larger amount of food than most people would in a similar situation during a short span of time. Oftentimes, the affected individual shows an apparent lack of ...
Helping People with Anorexia
Helping people afflicted with anorexia is by no means an easy task. Realizing that something is wrong with them and with their eating behaviors, anorexics often go to great lengths to hide their eating disorders. They tend to withdraw from social contacts, refuse to eat with others and hide their ...
Hib Meningitis and the Hib Vaccine
Meningitis is an infection of the membrane which covers the brain and the spinal cord, and can be caused by infection with bacteria and viruses. There are several types of meningitis of which Hib meningitis is one, and I will discuss each of them in successive articles, published at approximately ...
The Ultimate Millionaire Wealth Secret
In the next paragraph I will reveal to you a very closely-guarded financial secret that only a handful of people are aware of.It's so unusual and has been kept such a deep secret for so long that at first you may have trouble believing it - but I assure you ...
Making the Big Decision to Euthanize
As an author of books in the pet loss genre, I often receive e-mail where I am asked "Do you think that I did the right thing by putting my best friend down?" The question is always qualified by a very heart-wrenching and moving story about the rapidly declining health ...
Understanding Social Care Policy and Law for NVQ and SVQ Candidates and Assessors
When staff are just starting out on their NVQ and SVQ in Health and Social Care, or when new staff who have qualified from abroad start working in the UK they can be uncertain and confused by the different terms, such as policy, regulations, legislation, etc. NVQ and SVQ Assessors ...
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