Appropriate Elliptical Machine Body Posture

Maintain proper elliptical body posture throughout your entire workout, warm up and cool down. How you use an elliptical machine and maintaining appropriate posture is the key to avoiding injury and getting the most intense and rewarding workout possible.

Eating Disorders and the Narcissist

Patients suffering from eating disorders binge on food and sometimes are both anorectic and bulimic. This is an impulsive behaviour as defined by the DSM (particularly in the case of BPD and to a les...

How To Get Rid Of Indigestion Naturally, Once And For All

Common causes of indigestion (Dyspepsia) are too much or too little acid in the stomach, a bacterial or fungal infection, nervous tension, overeating, difficulty in breaking down fatty acids, constipation, over-activity of stomach muscles, wind rising from the stomach, disturbed rhythms and eating food too quickly.

Anorexia Nervosa- An Eating Disorder!

It is an eating disorder which is mainly seen in teenagers where they starve themselves resulting in extreme weight loss. This kind of eating disorder can also mean anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and binge eating disorder.

Eating Disorders - Bulimia Nervosa Effects

An article on the effects of Bulimia Nervosa and some statistics on the disease.

Eating Disorders - How To Prevent Them

An article on how to prevent eating disorders.

Eating Disorders 101: An Introduction

What are eating disorders and how do you prevent them? Eating disorders are serious illnesses. The malnourishment of both anorexia and bulimia affects the body rapidly and can lead to hypoglycemia, pancreatitis, enlargement of the heart, heart attacks, congestive heart failure, permanent brain shrinkage with loss of memory and IQ, infertility, and osteoporosis. But the good news is that approximately seventy-five percent of patients with eating disorders do recover.

Understanding And Combatting Anorexia

Understanding anorexia and how you can overcome it.

Hollywood Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia Nervosa is probably more common in today's 'media' focused era more than it ever has been before. Anorexia Nervosa is a very complex eating disorder/disease that involves both psychological and sociological components which result in the voluntary starvation and exercise stress by an individual.

Controversial Aspects of Pro Anorexia

Pro anorexia is a controversial matter, referring to the pro-active character of anorexics’ lifestyles. There are lots of pro anorexia web sites throughout the Internet that provide feedback to people with anorexia. These web sites offer tips, advice and support to persons who are dealing with eating disorders.

Self-Destructive Behaviors of Girls with Anorexia

The desire of having a beautiful, slim body determines girls and young women to take drastic actions. The society we live in puts a lot of pressure on the shoulders of young girls by establishing and supporting exaggerated physical features as ideals of beauty. Teenage girls struggle to get noticed and sustain assiduous efforts in their attempt of improving their physical appearance. Their constant preoccupation with body weight sometimes becomes an obsession and many young girls develop eating disorders.

Common Myths and Misconceptions about Anorexia

People have many misconceptions about anorexia. Due to poor understanding of the phenomenon or due to various popular myths surrounding eating disorders, most people assimilate denatured ideas regarding anorexia and the persons it affects.

Interesting Features of Anorexia

Anorexia is a very common neuropsychological disorder that has a very high incidence in the young population. Anorexia is not just an eating disorder,

Anorexia Nervosa

Being thin is not bad or wrong per se. Keeping your weight at the ideal level with respect to your height is actually beneficial to your health. The problem begins when a young girl who wants to be thin would resort to drastic measures such as starving herself to death in order to be thin.