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Ideally, eating disorders should be treated by a trained health professional as soon as the problem is detected. Unfortunately, this is often not the case. Many patients resist professional help, or are in denial about their condition.

An eating disorder is a serious condition that rarely improves on its own, and these conditions can pose serious permanent health risks, even death. If professional help is not sought out immediately, there are certain things a patient can do while arranging for medical and psychological help. If you suffer from an eating disorder, here are six things you can do to help prevent serious and permanent health damage.

1. Spend time with friends, family members, and loved ones every day. If you suffer from an eating disorder, spending time with those you love and trust can do much for your physical, spiritual and psychological health. Make it a point to spend time with those you love every single day, even if it’s only to go to a movie or to run errands. Spending time with those you love can not only help lift your spirits, it can help distract you from potential triggers that can lead to emotional eating, excessive exercising, or stringent dieting and eating habits.
2.  Get busy. Fill your schedule with things you love to do. If you have a lot of time on your own, sign up for a class you think you will enjoy or consider doing volunteer work. Filling all the holes in your schedule with work and fun can help keep you healthy. 
3. Keep close track of your feelings. Emotional eating, dieting, and excessive exercising are often triggered by strong feelings, such as frustration, depression, loneliness, sadness, and anger. One way to keep track of how you feel is to practice a routine of daily journal writing. Writing down your feelings, no matter how negative, can greatly help relieve the stress and anxiety that often accompany them. 
4. Also keep track of “self-talk.” Self-talk refers to the little voice in your head that is often critical and negative. Becoming conscious of negative self-talk can help the eating disorder patient diffuse the power of such an internal dialogue. 
5. Strive for a healthy well balanced diet, and avoid dieting at all costs. Dieting relies on deprivation, and deprivation often leads to frustration and other negative emotions. Instead of thinking of food in terms of dieting, consider adopting an overall healthy diet that strives for moderation. Eat a variety of fresh foods, and try to eat your meals in the company of others rather than eating alone.
6. Limit your exercise to three to five times a day, and try to limit the exercise times to thirty minutes or less. You should seek out activities that they will enjoy, rather than engage in strenuous or competitive activities. Non-competitive sports activities and other fun activities like dancing and walking can be beneficial and restore the patient’s understanding of movement as something joyous.

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Scott Meyers is a staff writer for It’s Entirely Natural, a resource for helping you achieve a naturally healthy body, mind, and spirit. You may contact our writers through the web site. Follow this link for more information on Eating Disorders.

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Tags: anxiety, Depression, Eating Disorders, stress

When one thinks about eating disorders, the first illnesses that come to mind are the more commonly occurring eating problems, such as anorexia and bulimia. Few realize that there are actually many other types of eating disorders, which can be equally serious for those who suffer from them. In this article, we’ll discuss a lesser-known eating disorder, known as pica. We will then help you to learn more about the disease and its treatment, so you can help someone in your circle if you encounter these pathologies.

Many of the better-known eating disorders involve a low-self image and a desire to become thinner. Pica differs completely from these classic models. This syndrome is defined as a disorder in which one constantly feels the need to eat things that are not commonly considered food.

The name ‘pica’ was given to the disorder because in Latin, Pica means “magpie,” which is a type of bird that often has an odd diet. Magpies are known to eat or steal many non-food items for their nests.

While the cravings to eat non-food objects (such as children eating dirt, for example) may occur for a short time in some individuals, the symptoms can persist for a much longer period of time. In these cases, Pica may be the accurate diagnosis.

Things that people with pica often desire to eat may include dirt, chips of paint, starch for use in laundry, feces of animals, soap, or glue. These are just a few of the things that one with Pica may desire to consume, and there are many other things to consider. While some of the things that those with pica desire to eat can be consumed with little to no negative effects on the body, others can have terribly bad effects.

There are several reasons why one may develop a case of Pica. In many cases, it is a natural response of the body to a deficiency of certain minerals, such as iron or zinc. Poor diets may also result in a desire to eat non-food items, and malnutrition can sometimes be pointed to as the cause. Mental retardation can also be responsible, as well as certain cases of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Women who are pregnant may also experience a case of Pica, as cravings during pregnancy can be intense and odd.

In order to treat Pica, one must understand the underlying conditions leading to the symptoms and results in each person. In many cases, the disorder can be cleared up by addressing the mineral deficiency that may be causing the urges. Psychotherapy may also be employed in order to help a person to cure themselves of their Pica urges.

It’s important to address Pica as soon as the diagnosis is made, as this disease can cause malnutrition and lead poisoning. Infections may occur, and if one is eating certain items, intestinal blockage can treat major and possibly deadly consequences.

If you know someone who you suspect is undergoing a problem with the eating disorder with these symptoms, you may want to ask him or her to visit a doctor in order to address the problem and determine the cause. It could be as simple as a mineral deficiency, or it could be something more intractable. While Pica is an odd eating disorder, it’s no laughing matter. Pica should be treated whenever it is diagnosed.

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Scott Meyers is a staff writer for It’s Entirely Natural, a resource for helping you achieve a naturally healthy body, mind, and spirit. You may contact our writers through the web site. Follow this link for more information on Eating Disorders.

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Tags: anorexia, Eating Disorders, malnutrition, pica

What can you do if you are the parent of a child with an eating disorder? Eating disorders are complex conditions that can be difficult to treat. In many cases, an eating disorder will develop slowly over time, with symptoms progressively becoming more severe.

Many times, the compulsive nature of the eating disorder will become obvious at the most early stages of the condition. It is during these early stages that intervention may be most possible.

Parents play a key role in preventing eating disorders in their children. As a parent, you are the most important role model for your children. Here are six ways that you can help prevent an eating disorder from developing in your family.

1. Be positive about your own body. Avoid making negative statements about your how you look. Children learn from you, and may begin to mirror your own dissatisfaction. Be aware that if you demonstrate preoccupation or excessive concern about your weight and physical appearance, your children may begin to mirror this behavior. Even if you cannot conquer your own weight obsession, try not to pass it on to your children.
2. If your child expresses concern about his or her weight, remind him that people come in all shapes and sizes. Remind him that physical appearance is not the most important thing about their identity, and that beauty is not necessarily defined by how thin they are. 
3. Avoid the idea of ‘being perfect.’ Studies have shown that individuals who consider themselves perfectionists are more prone to developing an eating disorder. With this in mind, parents should not exert too much pressure on their children to be ‘perfect’. While all parents should encourage their children to excel in many areas of life, they should refrain from pressuring their children into the role of sports star or student achiever. Parents should refrain from reigning in their own instinct to be a perfectionist; they can convey perfection anxieties in an unconscious manner to their own children.
4. Model healthy behavior for your children. Children absorb so much of what you say and do, even when you think they are not paying attention. Modeling healthy behavior means preparing healthy meals and getting some form of regular exercise. Teach your children to eat diverse kinds of foods, and to eat in moderation. Don’t make them feel guilty for eating certain foods. Also, teach them that exercise need not be a chore, but can be something that is fun. 
5. Be informed about the messages your children are receiving from peers, TV, movies, fashion magazines, and other influences in their life. Find out how your children are interpreting messages from their friends and the media. Discuss these messages with them. Many children and young adults receive their idea about beauty from media messages and peers. If this is the case, talk to your children about the unrealistic standards that these messages seem to convey, and work to counteract these messages.

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Scott Meyers is a staff writer for It’s Entirely Natural, a resource for helping you achieve a naturally healthy body, mind, and spirit. You may contact our writers through the web site. Follow this link for more information on Eating Disorders.

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Tags: anxieties, Eating Disorders

In a society that is increasingly placing standards of beauty upon the youths of our population, people are at more of a risk than ever of developing an eating disorder. Celebrities in television and the media display stick-thin figures which can create a high standard of beauty. This ‘model of beauty’ can lead to many problems with an individual’s self esteem. On the other side of the spectrum, we are dealing with an obesity epidemic that is claiming more and more people in the developed world.

It is important to have a full understanding of the eating disorders which are prevalent in society today in order to be able to catch the warning signs when an individual you know is afflicted. Eating disorders are a mental condition, and while many discount the problem as situational and fixable if an individual desires to be healed, they can be very difficult to overcome. In this article, we’ll be giving a basic overview of some of the more common eating disorders that our culture faces today.

One of the most commonly occurring eating disorders within our society today is anorexia nervosa. Many are familiar with the affliction, in which one suffers from such an intense occupation with their self image that they literally starve their bodies in hopes of attaining a slimmer figure. While dieting and exercise are efficient ways of losing weight, those with anorexia resort to drastic methods for trying to attain a body figure with which they will never be satisfied. Anorexia is marked by a preoccupation with weight loss and a poor self image. In advanced cases of anorexia, women may lose the ability to have a period. In severe cases, the woman can die of starvation.

Bulimia is another eating disorder that permeates our culture today. As opposed to anorexics, which use dieting techniques and weight-loss pills to a high degree, bulimics find solace in ‘purging’. Bulimic individuals usually eat a large amount of food, then retreat to a bathroom in order to regurgitate, or ‘purge’ the food from their system, causing them to lose the nutritional value and calories that the food they consume.

Bulimics may also use laxatives, causing bouts of diarrhea and eliminating the nutritional value that bulimics should be receiving from the food they eat. You may be able to see warning signs for bulimia if an individual binges upon foods that are high in fat and sweets, engorging as much food as possible, then retires to the bathroom in order to purge the foods. Poor self image is also a leading reason why people may become bulimic, and it’s an important thing to note when considering the health of a friend or family member.

These are just a few of the eating disorders that can cause excessive trauma to the body and mind of an individual. If you know someone who you suspect has an eating disorder, you may want to discuss the problem with them with love and compassion, being sure to let them know that you are there for them. In severe cases, you should speak with a doctor in order to determine the best course of action for helping an individual.

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Scott Meyers is a staff writer for It’s Entirely Natural, a resource for helping you achieve a naturally healthy body, mind, and spirit. You may contact our writers through the web site. Follow this link for more information on Eating Disorders.

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Tags: anorexia nervosa, bulimia, Eating Disorders, obesity

As commonly known to most of us, Anorexia and Bulimia are the most common forms of eating disorders. While this is true to a large extent, Compulsive over Eating is another type of an eating disorder which is slowly becoming very common too. The symptoms are the exact opposite to that of Anorexia and can cause serious damage to ones health. It too is basically a mental problem and has been found to be difficult to surmount. Let us try and understand this disorder more thoroughly.

Firstly, gender is not a bias for those affected by this disorder and therefore both males and females are affected. Recent studies have however shown females being more afflicted. Over eating can be described as going on a food eating binge and literally gorging on food. This binge in most cases is caused by accepting eating as a comfort from mental stress and is followed by a period of guilt and depression.

A person affected continues eating even after they are full and does this regularly every day, every meal. All of us tend to pig out on food at times, but when one overeats every single time, it is cause for worry and also for a check up to ensure you too are not becoming a compulsive over eater.

Some common pointers to one being a compulsive over eater are (a) Finishing your meal well before others and a desire to virtually attack the food on your plate. (b) Eating when not physically hungry that is eating without any hunger pangs or eating just for the heck of it. (c) Eating to a point when you feel distinctly uncomfortable. Every time you get up after a meal you realize you have over eaten but cannot help it. (d) Realizing that you are experiencing the symptoms mentioned above regularly and are yet not able to stop your self.

Although compulsive over eating may not seem like a major problem or serious enough to cause worry, it has a very large number of negative affects on your good health. Heart disease, heightened cholesterol level, type II diabetes and obesity can result from this disorder.

The mental affect of having low self esteem is a major fall out and can have serious consequences. Proper counseling and guidance is required to relieve this mental strain. The best option in case some one you know is affected by this disorder is to make him/her open up to discuss the problem with you or an expert. While discussing such a problem be very serious and use a sympathetic and compassionate manner.

Understand the physical and mental stress the person is undergoing and make sure you do not ridicule him ever. If symptoms are left untreated it can have serious consequences and it is therefore highly advisable to consult a specialist for counseling.

Compulsive over eating is a disorder affecting a large number of people, especially in large towns and cities and we need to tackle such symptoms early.

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Scott Meyers is a staff writer for It’s Entirely Natural, a resource for helping you achieve a naturally healthy body, mind, and spirit. You may contact our writers through the web site. Follow this link for more information on Eating Disorders.

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Tags: anorexia, cholesterol, compulsive over eating, Eating Disorders, obesity, type-2-diabetes

Sleep eating syndrome (called Nocturnal Eating Disorder, or NED) is a type of sleeping disorder in which the patient eats while clinically asleep. As a result of unconscious sleep eating, the patient often consumes extra calories and gains weight. In many cases, the type of food consumed during night eating is junk food, exacerbating the health problems associated with this sleeping disorder. This article will discuss nocturnal eating disorder: how to diagnose it, and what to do about it.

Because of a lack of judgment on the part of someone suffering from NED, the person may eat too much of what tends to be fat or sugar-rich junk food. This can lead to obesity. Another prominent risk of nocturnal eating disorder is the possibility of the patient cooking while asleep. The patient is not aware of cooking with fire, heat or sharp utensils.

Is nocturnal eating disorder considered to be an eating disorder? Technically, nocturnal eating disorder is not an eating disorder, but rather it is classified as a sleep disorder.

What can you do if you suspect that you or someone you know suffers from nocturnal eating disorder? The most important thing is to get an accurate diagnosis. Visit your doctor so that they will conduct a physical examination and take note of all your symptoms. Your doctor may order you to spend a night in a sleep lab.

Once the doctor diagnoses NED, there are many treatment options available for this problem. Physicians recommend that patients follow several preventative measures in order to keep nocturnal eating sessions at bay. Here are some of the most helpful tips for anyone who might be suffering from a nocturnal eating disorder; Exercise has been proven to be beneficial for victims of nocturnal eating disorder. Even just a few minutes of movement and exercise each day can make a significant difference. Easy exercises that you can try include walking, bicycling, and dancing. Making just a few simple changes in your everyday routine can help you become more active. Try parking further away from the store when you go shopping, and take the stairs instead of the elevator. Try to get in all your exercise in the morning. If you exercise in the evening, it might interfere with your ability to fall asleep.

Avoid caffeine and other stimulating substances. Don’t drink coffee; consume chocolate, soda, or other caffeinated or sugar-rich drinks near bedtime. Also, avoid any medications that you know interfere with your normal sleeping pattern. Many over the counter and prescription medications can interrupt with your sleeping pattern. Also, alcohol and nicotine can make it difficult for you to fall asleep. Instead of consuming anything that may be stimulating, drink warm milk instead.

Take a warm bath before bedtime. A warm bath can be relaxing and signals the body that it’s time to wind down for the day. However, showers should be avoided right before bedtime, as these can be stimulating.

Consult your health professional for medications that can help. Nocturnal eating disorder can be helped through the use of specific medications. These include medications such as anti-depressants, including the drug Wellbutrin. Certain anti-seizure medications have also proven beneficial for counteracting the symptoms of nocturnal eating disorder. However, sedatives should be avoided; these can worsen the condition.

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Scott Meyers is a staff writer for It’s Entirely Natural, a resource for helping you achieve a naturally healthy body, mind, and spirit. You may contact our writers through the web site. Follow this link for more information on Eating Disorders.

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Tags: Eating Disorders, sleeping disorder

Health professionals tell us that improving our body image is one of the best ways to prevent the onset of an eating disorder.

Eating disorders are serious conditions that can be difficult to treat because health professionals do not yet understand precisely how these complex disorders develop. Why do some people develop eating disorders, while others don’t? While many health professionals have postulated many causes for these disorders, no one understands the specific combination of factors that contribute to the onset of the syndrome. Anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and binge eating disorder are the three most common types of eating sicknesses. All are characterized by an unhealthy relationship to food. Health professionals believe that cultivating a positive body image and adopting a healthy lifestyle may prevent eating disorders.

The following are five ideas for improving your body image. Practice them daily to make them a part of your life.

1. Wear clothes that fit and flatter. Are you one of those people whose closet is filled with clothes that don’t fit right? Many times, we buy what we like, and not what fits or flatters our bodies. Find clothes that you feel comfortable in. Your clothes should make you feel beautiful and comfortable. Avoid tight fitting clothes, or anything that feels even slightly uncomfortable or self-conscious. 
2. Don’t avoid certain activities because of your body. Many people who are self-conscious about their bodies often avoid activities they love. Many individuals may avoid certain sports, fitness classes, dating and even social gatherings because of the way they feel about your body. Remind yourself that being cut off from the people and activities you love is not going to change your body or make you feel better. In fact, the opposite is true. Creating a supportive community of friends and family, and doing activities you are interested in can make you feel more secure and confident. 
3. Helping others can make you feel better about yourself. Consider participating in some kind of volunteer work as a way to help others and feel better about you. Volunteer work can help put you in touch with those who need help, and helping others is a proactive and positive way to raise your self-esteem.
4. Think of your body as your best friend. Eating disorder patients often externalize their own bodies, viewing it as something outside of themselves that they must battle and subdue. Instead, think of your body as a best friend. Would you criticize or even despise your own best friend? Would you support and nurture a good friend, or would you treat them poorly? When you think of your body as your best friend, it makes sense to treat it with a sense of respect, love, patience and acceptance. 
5. Make a list of all the things you love about your body. Write down everything that comes to mind, even things that seem insignificant to you at first. Read your list daily and add to it at all times. This list can serve as a powerful reminder of your inner strength, beauty and health.

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Scott Meyers is a staff writer for It’s Entirely Natural, a resource for helping you achieve a naturally healthy body, mind, and spirit. You may contact our writers through the web site. Follow this link for more information on Eating Disorders.

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Eating disorders represent a range of complex afflictions that can difficult to understand. Even health professionals today do not have a complete understanding of eating disorders. Why? Eating disorders are complex because they touch on almost all aspects of an individual’s life: they can affect a person’s health, psychological well-being, and social life.

Most health professionals agree that eating disorders are caused by a combination of socio-cultural, biological, family, and interpersonal factors. This article provides a brief overview of these different factors that health professionals suspect may be responsible for the onset of an eating disorder in some individuals. Remember, every patient is different, so many of these factors may not come into play for some individuals with eating disorders.

Socio-cultural factors that may precipitate the onset of an eating disorder have to do with the media images presented to the public regarding beauty, health, and weight issues. Even the casual observer can find evidence for the fact that our media culture is obsessed with physical appearance, and issues such as weight loss, slowing the aging process, and the general pursuit of physical perfection. Of course, such perfection is impossible. Many people are not able to achieve the rail-thin standards that are promoted in the media and popular culture. These socio-cultural factors, some experts suggest, may provide the impetus for some individuals who develop eating disorders.

Biological factors that may be responsible for the onset of an eating disorder include a genetic predisposition to certain hormonal imbalances. These include a predisposition to an imbalance in serotonin, a neurotransmitter that is involved in brain function, sleep patterns, and mood. Another biological factor that researchers have identified as possibly contributing to an eating disorder is a propensity in some patients for reduced blood flow to the temporal lobe.

Interpersonal and family factors may also contribute to the onset of an eating disorder. Interpersonal and family factors may include a troubled personal life, including an inability to cope effectively with feelings and personal relationships, a difficulty expressing emotions, substance abuse or alcohol problems, and low self-esteem due to bullying or teasing.

A troubled family life can contribute to the development of an eating disorder. Families that are overcritical or put pressure on certain family members to lose weight can contribute to the development of an eating disorder. Children often mirror their parent’s unhealthy patterns. Parents who magnify the importance of their physical appearance may be unconsciously sending an unhealthy message to their kids. Researchers have found that families with a history of sexual or physical abuse may also be more prone to developing eating disorders.

Other individual factors that can contribute to the development of an eating disorder may include depression, anxiety, and issues related to self-esteem. Also, researchers have found that major life changes can greatly contribute to the onset of eating disorders. Death in the family, change in employment, moving, starting college, the end of a relationship. All of these can trigger the onset of an eating disorder if a person is vulnerable.

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Scott Meyers is a staff writer for It’s Entirely Natural, a resource for helping you achieve a naturally healthy body, mind, and spirit. You may contact our writers through the web site. Follow this link for more information on Eating Disorders.

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Tags: Eating Disorders, genetic predisposition, hormonal imbalances

If you use food to manage your mood or if you eat in response to your feelings, you may be defined as someone who is suffering from emotional eating. Emotional eating usually occurs when you eat on impulse because of a triggered feeling. Although it is not defined as an eating disorder, some medical experts think that it is still akin to an eating disorder because the patient has an unbalanced outlook or relationship with food.

An emotional eater eats because of a triggered emotion and normally not because he or she feels hungry. If you are not sure if you are an emotional eater, you might want to ask yourself some guiding questions. Do you normally eat even if you are not hungry? When you are feeling down, lonely, stressed out or if you just don’t have anything to do, do you usually grab food right away and chomp down? If faced with a problem, do you usually find yourself eating instead of dealing with the problem on hand? Do you find it difficult to draw the line between being truly hungry and just having some snacks? If your answer to the said questions is mostly a yes, then you have experienced or may even still be experiencing emotional eating. Emotional eaters’ attention usually gets curbed because of food.

For emotional eaters, there are ways of managing this type of situation. Emotional eaters can follow some steps in order to develop a healthier relationship with emotions and food. First off, a person should understand that while food is important to survive, to have too much passion for it is not healthy. Food should not be used as means to appease feelings of sadness or loneliness.

Secondly, a person should become a more wary eater. More thought or attention should be given whenever one is eating. A person should check his or her eating habits and learn new and other skills in order to better the current ones.

A person who thinks he or she may be an emotional eater can try keeping a food journal. Keeping one can help a person keep track of the food he or she eats, when and why. Simply write down the food that you have eaten in a day, where you ate them and why you ate them. Was it because you were truly hungry or because of a whim? The food journal can help you keep track of your emotional eating patterns. Once you keep a record of your eating patterns and of the reasons behind every eating session, you can fully assess the possible ways for you to deal with emotional eating.

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Scott Meyers is a staff writer for It’s Entirely Natural, a resource for helping you achieve a naturally healthy body, mind, and spirit. You may contact our writers through the web site. Follow this link for more information on Eating Disorders.

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Tags: Eating Disorders, eating habits, emotions

Eating disorders are a problem for all, but especially vexing when a woman is also pregnant.

Women who suffer from an eating disorder should try, if possible, to reduce its effects before becoming pregnant. That is not possible in many cases, as the underlying causes can be deeply-rooted and difficult to change.

Pregnancy can demand a good deal from a woman, both in her eating habits and her general psychological state. Her hormones are significantly changed, which can sometimes help to overcome a disorder, but in many cases may not have an effect on the woman’s eating problems.

A woman must eat properly in order to bring a healthy baby to full term. The body makes demands to store additional nutrients, including vitamins, minerals and carbohydrates. A woman must put on weight not just for her baby, but also for other parts of her body that must be well-maintained in order to assure a good pregnancy.

If a woman does not eat properly and set her body for the tasks ahead, the mother can become severely malnourished. This contributes not only to the woman’s health problems, but also to those of the baby. Dangers associated with an unhealthy pregnancy include severe mood swings, tiredness leading to exhaustion, and immune deficiencies, which can lead to contracting diseases (colds and flu to more serious illnesses).

The fetus is also susceptible if the mother is not properly nourished. Poor nutrition on the part of the mother can often lead to problems with the baby, such as low birth weight, premature birth, poor bone formation and even brain abnormalities. Lack of folic acid during gestation can lead to spina bifida, while lack of other B vitamins can lead to several types of birth defects.

While most women understand that gaining weight is a normal part of pregnancy, women with eating disorders may find this aspect of pregnancy frightening. Most women can expect to gain an average of 25-35 pounds during the course of pregnancy.

Some women may be able to deal weight gain and accept it as a natural part of pregnancy, but others may plunge into a deep depression. For a woman with an underlying eating disorder, the resultant weight gain can be a cause of stress. Pregnancy can be a challenging period for all women, but it can be an especially difficult time for women who are suffering from an eating disorder.

Each eating disorder has its own specific set of risks associated with pregnancy. Women who suffer from anorexia nervosa during pregnancy may not gain sufficient weight during pregnancy. These women also have a much higher risk of having a baby with low birth weight, and all the related health complications that tend to accompany low birth weight babies. Women with bulimia nervosa may suffer from their own specific set of complications. The binge and purge cycle of bulimia can lead chemical imbalances, heart problems, and dehydration.

Women with binge eating disorder have trouble maintaining a healthy weight. They may become overweight or even severely obese. Women with this disorder may be more prone to developing gestational diabetes, high blood pressure, and have a greater chance of giving birth to babies who are high in weight.

Women who become pregnancy while battling an eating disorder are prone to depression, high blood pressure, dehydration, nutritional deficiencies, heart irregularities and other cardiac problems, complications with labor and nursing, and post-partum depression.

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Scott Meyers is a staff writer for It’s Entirely Natural, a resource for helping you achieve a naturally healthy body, mind, and spirit. You may contact our writers through the web site. Follow this link for more information on Eating Disorders.

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Tags: Eating Disorders, pregnancy women