there is strong and consistent evidence that eating disorders are prevalent in sport and especially in weight sensitive sports such as endurance, weight category and aesthetic sports as well as jumping events. these illnesses are not only common but lead to significant physical and psychological morbidity and impaired performances. sports organizations, and by extension the professionals whose ...

objective: the aim of this study was to compare the quality of diet measured by healthy eating index (hei) between individuals with and without metabolic syndrome. materials and methods: this case-control study was performed in tehran and consisted of 103 overweight and obese individuals (52 cases and 51 controls) within age range of 20 to 55 years. case and control were matched for age and sex...

Do the levels of psychopathology displayed by patients with an eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS) more closely resemble those displayed by full-criteria anorexia and bulimia nervosa patients than they do those of non-eatingdisorder controls? Three groups of eating disorder patients (anorexia nervosa, n=27; bulimia nervosa, n=23; EDNOS, n=19) and a group of non-eating-disorder contr...

The present study was conducted to develop a Multi-dimensional Body Image Scale for Malaysian female adolescents. Data were collected among 328 female adolescents from a secondary school in Kuantan district, state of Pahang, Malaysia by using a self-administered questionnaire and anthropometric measurements. The self-administered questionnaire comprised multiple measures of body image, Eating A...

introduction: eating disorder symptoms and social anxiety can be occurring in the same time. also social anxiety is one of the important factors predicting eating disorder symptoms which vary among different cultures and countries. the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between eating disorder symptoms and social anxiety in school boys.  materials and methods: this was a cross-...

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Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is an entirely new diagnosis in the DSM-5. ARFID replaces "feeding disorder of infancy or early childhood," which was a diagnosis in the DSM-IV restricted to children 6 years of age or younger; ARFID has no such age limitations and it is distinct from anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa in that there is no body image disturbance. ARFID involves...

Body images of female patients with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa were assessed against females without eating disorders and compared with male ideals of female attractiveness. A computer program was applied to examine body images of 62 patients with anorexia nervosa, 45 patients with bulimia nervosa, and 40 female and 39 male control subjects. Body size overestimation was most distinct ...

We present a case of giant gastric trichobezoar retrieved through a long gastrotomy in a 40 years old married women from rural Sindh with unreported psychological disturbance. Trichobezoar almost exclusively occur in females with an underlying psychiatric disorder. It has an insidious development of symptoms which accounts for its delayed presentation and large size at the time of diagnosis. Th...

INTRODUCTION Disorders affecting the oropharynx and esophagus are relatively common in dogs, and are typically associated with dysphagia. Despite the frequency of this problem, the diagnosis of disorders affecting the oropharyngeal, esophageal or gastroesophageal phase of swallowing can be extremely challenging, and warrant a thorough physical examination, followed by clinical observations of t...