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Article: Eating disorders
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- Community Practitioner
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
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Eating disorders are common conditions which are on the increase. Although adolescents and young women are most at risk, they can affect adults and young children. Eating disorders can have severe medical consequences, but may go undetected and treated. In the first of two articles, we examine anorexia nervosa. Next month, we look at bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorders
Community practitioner 2000; 73, 4:573-574
Eating disorders are characterised by severe disturbances in eating behaviour, such as restriction of intake or bingeing, as well as distress or excessive concern about body shape or body weight.1,2 They typically occur in adolescent girls or young women, but can occur after ...