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Article: Food for thought.(body talk)(symptoms and causes of eating disorders such as bulimia)(healthy eating guildelines for ballet dancers)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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There are lots of ways to eat--with our hands, sitting on the floor, making noisy sounds, even politely at a table with candles. But when we think of people's overall well-being there are really only two kinds of eating: healthy and disordered.
Healthy eating is based on the nutritional and caloric (energy) needs of the individual. Some people mistakenly equate healthy eating with dieting, or with eating only low-calorie or low-fat foods. This is off the mark. Healthy eating includes a wide variety of foods and provides adequate nutrition and energy for healthy growth and development.
The energy that every body needs is derived from carbohydrates, ...