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Bad hair day? Kjerstin Gruys wouldn’t know. She’s nearly halfway through her quest to spend an entire year — including Oct. 1, her wedding day — avoiding mirrors.
Female-to-male transgendered people — known as transmen — have more autistic traits than typical heterosexual men and women, and more than those who wish to switch gender in the opposite direction, according to new research.
How do you define recovery from anorexia? Tuesday’s New York Times explores this question — and highlights striking similarities to the debate over defining recovery from alcoholism and other drug addictions.
—DEMI LOVATO, 18, actress and singer, on finding out that she has bipolar disorder. Lovato tells People Magazine that she was first diagnosed with the disorder several months ago, while undergoing treatment for anorexia, bulimia and cutting. Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones has also recently acknowledged suffering from bipolar 2. [via People]
—ANOREXIA PATIENT, AGE 11, explaining why she had starved herself to the point of hospitalization; recent data show a sharp increase in hospitalizations due to eating disorders, particularly in younger children: between 1999 and 2006, hospitalizations rose 119% in children under 12. [via ABC News]
Many women — and doctors too — believe that women with anorexia stop menstruating. First of all, that’s not true. And secondly, here’s a quick fertility refresher: just because a woman doesn’t get her period doesn’t mean she’s not ovulating.
Treatment for anorexia has traditionally focused on individual rehabilitation of the patient, often in a residential treatment center away from the family.
Social networking is the most common reason young people use the Internet. Increasingly, that social interaction is happening on websites devoted to eating disorders. According to a new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Stanford University School of Medicine, the Web is rife with so-called pro-ana and pro-mia [...]
Yoga for teens could be more than a spiritual and physical boost—a new randomized controlled trial suggests that it may help those with anorexia, bulimia and other eating disorders. The study included 50 adolescents aged 11-16, the vast majority of whom were girls. They were seriously ill. Nearly half had previously been hospitalized because of [...]
Tired of your mindless treadmill routine and all that running leading nowhere? Consider mixing up your fitness plan, with more and more gyms offering unique classes for workouts that are effective — and fun.
