**This is compliments from an email I received from LSU-Shreveport. Just thought I would pass it along. Too often people over look eating disorders....
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
February 20 – 26, 2011
Many of us know someone who is constantly dieting. Unfortunately, there are many cases which go beyond dieting, when the concerns become an obsession, with constant worry, restrictive barriers about eating, and compulsive behaviors. These patterns describe an eating disorder, a life threatening illness that affects many college age adults.
Many of us know someone who is constantly dieting. Unfortunately, there are many cases which go beyond dieting, when the concerns become an obsession, with constant worry, restrictive barriers about eating, and compulsive behaviors. These patterns describe an eating disorder, a life threatening illness that affects many college age adults.
It is not dieting and it is not about the food. Eating disorders are a complex collection of emotions, attitudes, and behaviors related to a person’s self-perception and feelings of acceptance. Primarily women are affected; however, it is an illness that is increasingly impacting men and children of all races and in all cultures. According to recent estimates from the National Institute for Mental Health, up to 11 million females and 1 million males suffer from various eating disorders. Many more individuals will develop less severe, but still significantly unhealthy attitudes and behaviors toward food.
If these patterns describe someone you know, please take the time to educate yourself and reach out to them. There is help and recovery is possible. Here are some resources that may be helpful:
o National Eating Disorders Association (http://www.nationaleatingidsorders.org/)
o National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (http://www.anad.org/)
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