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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...
Between five and ten percent of individuals treated for eating disorders are male. Of the three to five million American males who have been clinically recognized as having eating disorders, about half of them have clinical bulimia nervosa, and another quarter are diagnosed with anorexia...
...result, men avoid treatment for much longer than women. The 1997 HEDC study found a 13.7 year delay among men before treatment for males with a binge eating disorder, and 8.4 years for bulimia nervosa, which is considerably longer than the year or two delay that face female patients. As Linda Gelda, a social worker specializing in eating disorders, confirmed, “many men have only come into treatment because of [another] medical concern. Some of them had been purging for decades, and nobody knew...
...Most binge-eating experts see the disorder as a form of bulimia nervosa, in which people eat compulsively and then purge, usually by vomiting. Binge-eaters will complete the eating part, but not bother purging. Beside the sheer quantity of food consumed, there are other signs of a sincere problem. Bingers tend to indulge in the evening or at night, not around normal meal times. Episodes last under an hour, during which 1,500 calories or more are consumed. Afterwards, besides feeling unbearably stuffed, bingers are ashamed and guilt-ridden. More women than men are afflicted, but not disproportionately...
...anorexics. For eating disorder educators, the very language of the sites can provide invaluable hints into a troubled psyche. "I think some of these sites are worded in a way that indicates the hosts do want help," says Vivian Meehan, president and founder of the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, or ANAD. "They?re putting themselves out there. But then they also put up a defense against it. Don?t come on the site if you?re only interested in putting us down...