Primary prevention of eating disorders: might it do more harm than good?

Article Abstract:

The success of a new school-based eating disorder prevention program was evaluated. The program was made up of eight weekly sessions that were integrated into the regular curriculum of two secondary school classes. It involved a wide variety of educational material, including body image and self-esteem, healthy eating habits, resistance to pressures to diet and help for eating disorders. The findings indicated that the success of the program was short-lived, suggesting that school-based eating disorder prevention programs may prove counterproductive in the long run.

Evaluation, Prevention, Health education

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Attentional bias in eating disorders

Article Abstract:

The relationship between the eating disorders and attentional biases is studied in two samples of female patients with clinical eating disorders and anxiety along with a control group of normal females. The negative eating biases were observed in women with eating disorders than in anxious and normal controls.

Psychological aspects, Complications and side effects, Risk factors, Women patients, Clinical report, Attentional bias

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Thinking afresh about the classification of eating disorders

Article Abstract:

The article presents a need to develop a new way of classifying the eating disorders, as the earlier classifications have certain fundamental flaws.

Diagnosis, Identification and classification, Disease/Disorder overview

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