Latest Bulimia nervosa Stories

2013-05-21 14:56:28

The increase is due to more cases of eating disorder not otherwise specified rather than rises in either bulimia or anorexia More people are being diagnosed with eating disorders every year and the most common type is not either of the two most well known—bulimia or anorexia—but eating disorders not otherwise specified (eating disorders that don't quite reach the threshold to be defined as anorexia or bulimia), shows a study published online in BMJ Open. Few studies have...

National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD) Presents Fashion for Every Body - An Evening to Embrace Your Beauty, Your Body and Your Life

2013-04-19 12:24:15

CHICAGO and NAPERVILLE, Ill., April 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On Friday, May 13, 2013, Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center and Rago & Associates proudly sponsor Fashion for Every Body, an evening to embrace your beauty, your body and your life benefiting ANAD. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110727/CG42761LOGO) "A small dress size does not equal fashion, your style does," said Laura Discipio, executive director at ANAD. "Beauty comes in all sizes and...

PURE Reflections: Beauty Reimagined. Friday, April 12th

2013-04-08 16:23:53

How Body Image impacts the identities of girls and women: one-night-only theatrical dance performance, this Friday in NYC NEW YORK, April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- PURE Reflections: Beauty Reimagined, a theatrical dance performance about girls and women confronting and overcoming the obstacles to cultivating a healthy body image, on Friday April 12, 2013 at 7:30pm at A. Philip Randolf High School in NYC. Twenty million women suffer from a clinically significant eating disorder at...

AllMed Webinar Helps Health Plans Learn About the Updated DSM-5 Criteria for Diagnosis of Eating Disorders During National Awareness Week

2013-03-20 23:01:58

As nationwide events were underway to mark the start of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, AllMed Healthcare Management hosted a webinar on comprehensive treatment of eating disorders. Portland, OR (PRWEB) March 20, 2013 AllMed's latest webinar included a discussion on the updated criteria for diagnosis of eating disorders to be released in the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Utilization review and case management professionals...

When Bulimia Damages a Smile, Prosthodontists Can Fix It

2013-02-25 20:21:16

CHICAGO, Feb. 25. 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "We don't realize how important our smile is until it's gone," reveals Allison, a recovering bulimic. She required innovative dental treatment to restore teeth damaged by bulimic erosion. National Eating Disorders Awareness Week is February 24-March 2, 2013. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130225/DC66145) The statistics are staggering. According to the National Eating Disorders Association, 20 million women and 10...

Insight Behavioral Health Centers and the University of Chicago's Eating Disorder Program Launch Exciting Research Collaboration

2013-02-19 12:30:55

CHICAGO, Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Insight Behavioral Health Centers and the University of Chicago's Eating Disorder Program are teaming up to study new options for adolescent patients with anorexia nervosa who do not respond to current treatment protocols. Daniel Le Grange, Ph.D., director of the Eating Disorder Program at the University of Chicago, will serve as principal investigator for the expansive three-year study. Dr. Le Grange was a member of the original...

Michigan-Based Inner Door Center® Offers The Country's Only Yoga-Based Eating Disorder Treatment

2013-02-06 12:25:33

ROYAL OAK, Mich., Feb. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Inner Door Center®, a comprehensive eating disorder treatment center treating anorexia, bulimia, binge-eating and diabulimia, offers clients the only yoga-based eating disorder treatment in America. Founder & CEO Beverly Price created the unique Reconnect with Food® Yoga-Based Eating Disorder Treatment Healing System. Eating disorders affect up to 24 million people in America, with one in 200 suffering from anorexia. Mortality...

American Capital Invests in The Meadows to Support Add-on Acquisition of Remuda Ranch

2013-01-04 16:21:56

BETHESDA, Md., Jan. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- American Capital, Ltd. (Nasdaq: ACAS) ("American Capital") announced today that in December 2012 American Capital and an affiliate invested in the equity of portfolio company The Meadows to support the acquisition of Remuda Ranch, a provider of inpatient, residential and outpatient eating disorder treatment programs. The Meadows is a premier multi-disorder inpatient facility specializing in the treatment of a broad range of addictions....

Kantor & Kantor, LLP: Eating Disorders and Mental Health Parity Educator Kathleen MacDonald Joins the Firm as an Insurance Advocate

2012-11-13 20:22:12

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Kantor & Kantor, LLP announced today that eating disorders educator and policymaker Kathleen MacDonald has joined the firm as an insurance advocate and member of the health team, working on appeals for eating disorder cases. MacDonald is a nationally recognized expert in the education and prevention of eating and body image issues, as well as policy relating to eating disorders and mental health parity. For more than half her life,...

Is Your Child Showing Signs of an Eating Disorder?

2012-09-18 06:29:13

CHICAGO, Sept. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- It's a discussion that strikes fear in the hearts of most parents - adolescents expressing concern about their weight. According to statistics, 1 out of every 100 girls, between the ages of 10 and 20, struggles with anorexia and four percent of college-aged women have bulimia. So how can parents distinguish between normal adolescent insecurities and the start of a dangerous eating disorder? "The most important thing a parent can do is listen,"...