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Article: Eating Disorders Affecting More Women in Mid-Life; Leading Eating Disorder Treatment Facility Sees Increase in Mid-Life Patients And Discusses Eating Disorders and the Elderly.
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- May 21, 2003
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PHOENIX -- PHOENIX, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The onset of eating disorders usually occurs early in life, but a troubling trend has begun to develop. More women are becoming affected during mid-life and in their senior years.
National trends and Remuda Ranch's records indicate an increase in the number of women developing eating disorders for the first time in mid-life. Patient cases may have doubled in the last six years.
"There are many reasons for the increase in mid-life eating disorders," said Edward Cumella, Ph.D., director of research at Remuda Ranch Programs for Anorexia and Bulimia. "The first are changes in culture and secondly, specific ...