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Five-Ring Fever: When Olympic Parents Push Their Kids Too Hard

By Susan Donaldson James — 2012

Silver Medalist and mother Judi Brown Clarke warns about overzealous parenting.

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How to Cope with Eating Disorders During Pregnancy

Eating disorders including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and other specified feeding or eating disorder (OSFED) most commonly emerge during adolescence or young adulthood and disproportionately impact females.

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Lauren Muhlheim
2019
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PTSD and Eating Disorders

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and eating disorders often co-occur. People with eating disorders may have other mental health conditions, such as generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, or obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

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Lauren Muhlheim
2019
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Eating Disorders Thrive in Anxious Times, and Pose a Lethal Threat

Eating disorders are thriving during the pandemic. Hotline calls to the National Eating Disorders Association are up 70-80% in recent months. For many, eating is a form of control — a coping mechanism tied to stress.

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Yuki Noguchi
2020
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Eating Disorders in Midlife

Eating disorders are most often thought of as afflicting teenage girls and young women. In reality, this is not the case. Many women and men don't stop worrying about weight and shape as they age.

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Lauren Muhlheim
2021
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Frequently Asked Questions About Eating Disorders

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

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Johns Hopkins Medicine staff
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How to Help Someone with an Eating Disorder

If you’re here, it's because you want to better support someone in your life who has an eating disorder—and that's an amazing first step. Very likely, you are feeling worried about your loved one and you are confused about what you should and should not do.

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Lauren Muhlheim
2021
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Disordered Eating in Midlife and Beyond

Aging can be a challenge to body image. For some women, it may bring on — or rekindle — an eating disorder.

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Harvard Health Publishing
2012
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Black Women Suffer from Eating Disorders, Too

"The assumption that eating disorders primarily affect young, affluent white women was based on research that was conducted on young, affluent white women."

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Jeanette Beebe
2018
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Minority Women: The Untold Story

The stereotypic image of those suffering from eating disorders is not as valid as once thought.

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Marian Fitzgibbon, Melinda Stolley
2000
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Thinner: The Male Battle with Anorexia

Dr. Holbrook, a psychiatrist and the director of the eating-disorders program at Rogers Memorial Hospital in Oconomowoc, Wis., is not most people's idea of a recovering anorexic.

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Erica Goode
2000
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