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Eating disorders are the diseases caused due to the abnormal eating behavior of an individual. Many people suffer from such eating disorders. They indulge in eating more and more food, which is considered abnormal. A normal person cannot have the amount of food, a person suffering from an eating disorder can have. Such abnormal patterns of food are not a result of increased hunger. Person having eating disorders have other problems. These problems are related to their lifestyle. Eating disorders are a sign of a problematic time in a person’s life. People eat more food to suppress extreme emotions and depression. Eating disorders are also of different types. Some of the eating disorders are: anorexia, compulsive eating, binge eating disorder and bulimia. These eating disorders are completely curable. You have to detect them on time and seek a medical advice. The treatment takes a long time. But if the patient is given good support by his family and friends, he can fully overcome the disease. There are certain misapprehensions about eating disorders. One common misapprehension is that the males who have any eating disorder are considered to de gay. The fact is that sex has nothing to do with eating disorders. Secondly, if a man has one eating disorder, he cannot have another. Whereas, many people have multiple eating disorders. The most common misbelieve is that teenage girls are more prone to eating disorders. It is a fact that you can have an eating disorder during teenage but any one be it children, young girls, boys can develop an eating disorder. If someone around you seems to be suffering with eating disorders, help them. Such people become emotionally very weak and use food as a way to relieve themselves. Emotional support is the most important thing to treat these individuals.

• New center for eating disorders opens in Austin (Austin Business Journal)
  
  Austin's first residential treatment center for eating disorders is open.
  


• Celebrities Who've Suffered From Eating Disorders (WNBC)
  
  As many as 24 million people in the United States suffer from eating disorders, according to the Refrew Center. See which celebrities are among those.
  


• 'Rachael Ray Show' Overrun By Litigious Aneroxics [Annals Of Workplace Eating Disorders] (Defamer)
  
  In what will easily go down as the Most Insane Legal Filing of the Long Weekend, a male employee at The Rachael Ray Show has named producer CBS and several other staffers in a legal filing seeking...
  


• Youth eating disorders as bad as cancer, conference told (Canada.com)
  
  VICTORIA - Youth with eating disorders sometimes end up worse off than children with leukemia, but people still aren't treating the issue seriously, delegates at the 85th annual Canadian Paediatric Society conference were told Thursday.
  


• Let's See Some Hustle Out There! (SF Weekly)
  
  We have not read local author Jennifer Sey's book Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics' Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams. But we did see Stick It, a movie on the same theme whose tagline is "It's not called gym-nice-tics," so we feel like we know w ...