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Eating Disorders at 75% of All Women?

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Marge_Innavera:

--- Quote from: injest on May 01, 2008, 12:40:04 am ---MY point was that if you are presenting statistics (about ANYTHING) then normal shouldn't be the lower number...if it is then your study is invalid as presented (IMO)

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Oh, right.  If a disorder is so widespread as to affect a large percentage of a population, we just laugh at it and ignore the consequences of the disorder.

Neat.

Marge_Innavera:

--- Quote from: delalluvia on April 30, 2008, 10:42:06 pm ---I agree.  Eating disorders I believe are psychological disorders that get combined with a feedback system the person creates within their own bodies.  Optom mentioned the 'euphoria' she felt with each lb lost.  Obviously the rest of us may enjoy losing a lb here and there, but euphoria hardly describes the feeling most of us get.  So her extreme reaction has a lot more involved than just losing a lb.
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I had an anorexia problem when I was 19, and that was in an era when eating disorders were practically unknown.  I was lucky in that our family doctor recommended a specialist who did know what eating disorders were but for years after that my mother referred to the whole thing as my "crazy diet."

The feeling of euphoria -- yeah, I can still recall that, after almost 40 years. That's partly a response to the havoc that eating disorders can wreak with your hormones, but it also reflects the anger a lot of anorexics feel.  The "never good enough" family dynamic, especially when middle-class families in particular tart it up as a compliment (e.g., "I know you can bring home a perfect report card; you're so smart!"), generates resentment that can build up over the years and surface in some rather unexpected places.

injest:

--- Quote from: Marge_Innavera on May 01, 2008, 12:26:52 pm ---Oh, right.  If a disorder is so widespread as to affect a large percentage of a population, we just laugh at it and ignore the consequences of the disorder.

Neat.

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ummm...nooooo...you are such an intelligent woman, I dont' think you can not understand my meaning.

I reject your characterizations of the whole purpose of this thread.

I would think that if you are so invested in this issue you would be the first to object to it being lumped together...or are YOU saying that bulimia is equal to casual dieting? I don't. I think that people with bulimia have a serious problem....people that are casually dieting are not killing themselves (we all 'diet' to some extent) So to tie them together, (IMO) diminshes the reality of anorexia and its toll on its victims.

(and I STILL think it is amusing that the statistics are twisted around to make EVERYONE sick....)

 :) :)

injest:

--- Quote from: injest on April 27, 2008, 12:11:11 am ---If 75% have unnormal eating habits....doesnt that mean that normal is not so normal?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24295957/

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The online SELF survey garnered responses from 4,000 women ages 25 to 45 to a detailed questionnaire about their eating habits and found that most disordered eaters fall into one or more of six categories. "Calorie prisoners" are terrified of gaining weight, tend to see food as good or bad and feel extremely guilty if they indulge in something that’s off-limits. Secret eaters binge on junk food at home, in the car — wherever they won’t be found out. Career dieters may not know what to eat without a plan to follow; despite their efforts, they’re more likely than other types to be overweight or obese. Purgers are obsessed with ridding their body of unwanted calories and bloat by using laxatives, diuretics or occasional vomiting. Food addicts eat to soothe stress, deal with anger, even celebrate a happy event; they think about food nearly all the time. Extreme exercisers work out despite illness, injury or exhaustion and solely for weight loss; they are devastated if they miss a session. Like Marsh, who Bulik describes as a calorie prisoner and an exercise addict, many disordered eaters piece together a painful mix of destructive habits. Others may shift between categories over the years, ricocheting from restricting to bingeing to purging, for instance.

ok what in here says ANYTHING about bulimia or anorexia??

is it ABNORMAL to think some foods are good or bad? are we not TAUGHT that there are foods that are good for us and food that is bad? this is NOT a eating disorder....this is healthy eating.

Is eating junk food abnormal? I would think the number with 'eating disorders' is much higher then...I dont' know of ANYONE that doesnt' sneak a cookie now and again

and yes we eat to celebrate...so if you go out to dinner for your anniversary you have an eating disorder JUST LIKE bulimics??

I don't think so.

I think the whole article and study is another in a long line of articles that are set up to make us feel bad about ourselves...alarmist crap. Read closer and you see that the TRUE eating disorders are only 10%. You can't say something is abnormal if the majority is doing it. Labeling does not make it so.

(and again...it has NOTHING to do with real eating disorders!)

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