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Offers resources on eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating and overeating. Includes the signs and symptoms, prevention, treatment or care and control, and possible causes.
Eating disorders are primarily an illness of young women; they typically start during adolescence.
Source: HealthyOntario.com
Disordered eating involves the preoccupation with food and weight. It can lead to restrictive or avoidant eating, compulsive overeating or binge eating.
Source: HealthyOntario.com
Let's face it, being an adolescent can be very stressful. You may have your schedule packed with school, sports, job, and still have to find time to hang out with your friends. Many adolescents have the additional stress of not liking the way their body looks. They may feel too fat or too skinny. So on top of all the other things that they have going on in their lives, they are also trying to change the way that their body looks.Is it an eating disorder?
Source: Canadian Health Network
The National Eating Disorder Information Centre (NEDIC) is a Canadian, non-profit organization, established in 1985 to provide information and resources on eating disorders and weight preoccupation.
Source: National Eating Disorder Information Centre
Women in midlife face challenges to our identities and self-concepts resulting from biological changes, life events and a culture in which healthy, strong images of older women are largely absent.
Source: Canadian Women's Health Network (CWHN)
Eating disorders and disturbances are characterized by an abnormal perception of one's body image - weight, or shape, or both. This perception is expressed as an obsessive preoccupation with food and weight that may lead to health-risk behaviours.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
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