It can often be difficult for victims of anorexia to receive insurance pay outs if they need life saving hospital care and even for their families to claim on life insurance policies in the event of their death. This is because, although increasingly seen as a mental disorder, the results of anorexia are largely thought [...]
Can you remember the last time you read a woman’s magazine? Did you still feel good about yourself by the time you reached the back cover?
Now I’m not talking about a food and home magazine, or a wellbeing-focused publication, but the glossy weeklies and monthlies that focus on diet, exercise, weight loss, cosmetics, gossip, and [...]
Generally, eating disorders involve self-critical, negative thoughts and feelings about body weight and food, and eating habits that disrupts normal body function, and daily life activities. A person with anorexia nervosa typically starves him or herself to be thin and experiences excessive weight loss, typically 15% below the weight that doctors consider ideal for his [...]
Turn to any popular publication these days and it will be plastered with numerous glossy photos of stick thin celebrity’s. How do these people get life insurance? Inside, the notion that thinness equals beauty is dominant with tips on how to look like the stars, how to lose that last half stone and how to [...]
There are many different types of eating disorders, but they are all characterized by an inability or unwillingness to maintain a healthy relationship with food. Usually, all types of eating disorders will leave the victim either underweight or overweight, and eating disorders often have inherent psychological factors as well. The main three types of eating [...]
There are two types of eating disorders that are commonly known. They are Anorexia and Bulimia. These are two distinct types of eating disorders.
Bulimia is characterized by overeating, followed shortly by some form of purging. This is an attempt by the patient to control the weight after each session of overeating. Often, these [...]