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Frequently Asked Questions About Eating Disorders

By Johns Hopkins Medicine staff

Eating disorders can occur in any age group, gender, ethnic or racial group.

Read on www.hopkinsmedicine.org

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6 Types of Eating Disorders

Eating disorders are serious and often fatal illnesses that cause severe disturbances to a person’s eating behaviors. Obsessions with food, body weight, and shape may also signal an eating disorder. Common eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder.

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Hidden Secrets: Eating Disorders | Rayo Cole | TEDxCrenshaw

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An Eating Disorder Specialist Explains How Trauma Creates Food Disorders

As an eating disorder and trauma therapist, Ashley McHan sees patients with an array of issues with food. VICE speaks to her about our unhealthy relationship to food, how it contributes to disordered eating and the underlying causes, similarities and differences of various eating disorders.

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How We Treat Eating Disorders at Johns Hopkins Medicine

At John Hopkins, treatment for eating disorders occurs in a variety of settings: inpatient, partial hospitalization, off-campus residence and outpatient clinic.

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Powerful Speech by Dr. Fuhrman: Food Addiction & Emotional Overeating

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Glennon Doyle Melton on the Pain That Led to Her Addiction and Bulimia | SuperSoul Sunday | OWN

Oprah's Book Club author, Glennon Doyle Melton, reveals why she struggled with addiction and bulimia, and explains why she balks at calling herself broken.

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Words to Eat By: Using the Power of Self-talk to Transform Your Relationship with Food and Your Body

This book will teach you how to use word power rather than willpower to increase your motivation and overcome your struggles with eating and body care.

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Sick Enough

Patients with eating disorders frequently feel that they aren’t "sick enough" to merit treatment, despite medical problems that are both measurable and unmeasurable. They may struggle to accept rest, nutrition, and a team to help them move towards recovery.

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Jennifer L. Gaudiani
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Eating Disorders Anonymous: The Story of How We Recovered from Our Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders Anonymous: The Story of How We Recovered from Our Eating Disorders presents the accumulated experience, strength, and hope of many who have followed a Twelve-Step approach to recover from their eating disorders.

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Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder (Second Edition)

If your teen has an eating disorder—such as anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating—you may feel helpless, worried, or uncertain about how you can best support them. That’s why you need real, proven-effective strategies you can use right away.

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James Lock, Daniel Le Grange
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