Word: nervosa
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...concludes that when anorexics choose to take their own lives, they tend to employ some of the most lethal methods available. Yet, in many ways, the new research conducted at the University of Vermont represents a landmark shift in how doctors understand suicidal tendencies in patients suffering from anorexia nervosa...
...study, which surveyed 9,282 adults over two years, concluded that the lifetime prevalence of binge eating outweighs that of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa combined. Binge eaters comprised 3.5 percent of the female sample and two percent of the male, while the incidence of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa afflicted less than two percent of women and less than one percent...
...condition differs from bulimia nervosa in that individuals do not participate in common purging techniques such as vomiting or the use of laxative after the binge episode...
...Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa have both been identified to have some sort of genetic tie. Skeptics have often posited that binge eating disorder might solely be a non-specific pattern of eating, thus suggesting no real difference between the obese with binge eating disorder and those without...
This lack of public knowledge not only burdens the male sufferers with shame, but feeds directly into general stereotypes of eating disorders and body dysmorphic disorder. Anorexia nervosa, for example, has permeated the parlance of the general public to the point that it is now being tossed around as an adjective pinned to any women with a bird’s appetite or waif-like body. By recognizing that men are not immune to distorted body perceptions or disturbed eating habits, one is acknowledging the multi-dimensionality of these illnesses, and thus the need for greater research and public education...