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Anorexia affects about 2% of women in their lifetime, although one in every ten sufferers is male. Darwin Bell

Epigenetics offers a glimmer of hope for future anorexia treatment

By Tracey Wade, Flinders University

Most people know that anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric illness associated with the maintenance of low weight and fear of weight gain. But we know very little about what causes this destructive disease…
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An English court has ordered that a young anorexic woman be force fed. DoD /Wikimedia Commons

Force-feeding anorexic patient curbs freedom of choice

By Peter Saul, University of Newcastle

Force-feeding or starving to death? Emotive terms for an appalling choice. But this choice – whether to restrain and force-feed a young woman against her will or let her die of starvation – was recently…
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Eating disorders are more than fad diets gone wrong. Flickr -S

Explainer: anorexia and bulimia

By Peta Stapleton

Eating disorders are an increasing problem in children and adolescents. Recent Australian studies have indicated eating disorder behaviour has increased twofold in Australia in the last five years and…

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