Eating Disorders

...ba href=/eating disorder/a/b for months, says she's a sucker for the spicy Mexican fayre and any junk food in general.

She confessed to Tatler magazine "I'll pretty much eat anything.

"I'm a big Taco Bell fan, a real fast-food eater.

I don't have the highest standards when it comes to food.

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...ba href=/eating disorder/a/b in which they sleepwalk into their kitchens, forage for food or even cook it, devour hundreds or even thousands of calories, and then return to bed.

The next morning they can't recall the events but find a telltale messy kitchen.Some bizarre cases were cited in an article by Stephanie Saul in The New York Times on March 14.

One woman gained 100 pounds before finally realizing that Ambien was at fault.

Another woman in a full body cast managed to sleepwalk to the kitchen, where she was found at various times frying bacon and eggs, lighting the oven, or eating a sandwich.

Still another sleepwalker wolfed down a whole package of hamburger buns.Sleep-eating can occur spontaneously or in association with other drugs, so Ambien may not be the only culprit.

But the researchers think that there's something about Ambien that leads to sleep-eating in some people.

Presumably only a very small percentage of users are susceptible, but with millions of Americans taking Ambien every year, the sleep-eaters could number in the thousands.

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It may be that by reducing their sexual drive through starvation, patients can temporarily resolve their sexual conflicts.” ( Article ) Anorexics aren’t always in their teens or older.

According to a Newsweek article, Fighting Anorexia: No One to Blame, “Researchers, clinicians and mental-health specialists say they're seeing the age of their youngest anorexia patients decline to 9 from 13.” (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10219756/site/newsweek/) Then how do genetics play a role?

The author, Peg Tyre found that, Doctors now compare anorexia to alcoholism and depression, potentially fatal diseases that may be set off by environmental factors such as stress or trauma, but have their roots in a complex combination of genes and brain chemistry.

In other words, many kids are affected by pressure-cooker school environments and a culture of thinness promoted by magazines and music videos, but most of them don't secretly scrape their dinner into the garbage.

As I continued reading, I concluded that the scariest symptom of anorexia is that, Anorexics are often delusional.

They can be weak with hunger while they describe physical sensations of overfullness that make it physically uncomfortable for them to swallow.

They hear admonishing voices in their heads when they do manage to choke down a few morsels.

They exercis...