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...Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder. But psychologists previously believed that those high rates of death were due to patients' already deteriorated physical state. The hypothesis was that these are people already on the verge of death - they were so malnourished and underweight that even the slightest suicide attempt could easily lead to death...
...blame the decline of the Japanese diet on the arrival of Western fast-food chains over the past several decades. It first took a hit at the end of World War II, when the nation was starving, and the U.S. occupation sought to fatten up a generation of underweight children through mandatory school lunch programs that pushed calorie and fat-rich Western foods such as milk, pork and bread at the expense of the Japanese diet. Millions of Japanese schoolchildren grew up eating like their American counterparts, while the government told their parents that traditional Japanese food was nutritionally deficient...
...those patients is Nicole, who in Mondraty's care has gained 15 kg this year and started working part time as a receptionist, though she's still underweight and still thinks she's fat. "We have a long, long way to go," says her mother, Kathy. Despite this latest study, the same could be said, sadly, for our understanding of anorexia...
...Australian Bureau of Statistics reports that 62% of men and 45% of women are above their ideal weight range (up from 52% and 37% respectively in 1995). Nor is there any argument that body weight has some relationship to health. Clearly, being severely obese (or severely underweight) is a recipe for trouble...
...Based on those figures, the net U.S. death toll attributable to excess weight is 26,000 a year (about one-twelfth the figure that many obesity experts had been fond of quoting). But this was more than canceled out by the 34,000 deaths that researchers linked to being underweight-having a BMI lower than 18.5. What to make of pudginess appearing to prolong lives? Study coauthor David Williamson speculated that since most people are over 70 when they die, some extra fat might have a protective effect...