Category: Anorexia
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General Overview Of Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, And Binge Eating Disorder
Eating disorders are serious illnesses, which affect all kinds of people, characterized by a disturbance with ones body image, food and weight. Examples include Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge Eating Disorder. These disorders arise from a rejection to changes around the person, which becomes a rejection to food. These illnesses have a devastating impact…
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Experience Of Living With Anorexia
A life with anorexia can be very difficult, and if people do not seek help, they may lose their lives. As mentioned before, anorexia is the most common eating disorder, has the highest mortality rate (NICE Guidelines 2004), and is not exclusive to any age or gender. Being so common it means that there are…
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Heightened Attentional Capture by Visual Food Stimuli in Anorexia Nervosa
Heighted Attentional Capture by Visual Food Stimuli in Anorexia Nervosa was a study done to test patients with anorexia nervosa and food stimulation. This study was done in 2017 to test the hypothesis that patients with anorexia nervosa are insensitive to the attentional capture of food stimuli. This means the researchers were testing to see…