Description: You cannot have missed the increasing level of discussion and concern regarding the possible impacts of social media use on the mental health of teens and youth in recent years. The available new coverage of this topic ranges widely from articles that seek out and dive into recent, population level research on social media… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Eating Disorders
Weight Issues are Due to Carbs? Fat? Your Brain!
Description: There have been millions of words written, spoken, and even yelled, about how to lose weight, about how many, many of us in North American MUST lose weight and about how failure of weight loss efforts, or failure to sustain weight loss, likely reflects a lack of will power on the part of the… Read more »
Eating Disorders and Intervention Website Suprises
Description: Imagine that you were involved in the development of a website that was intended to reach out to young women struggling with eating disorders that part of your site involves having young women with anorexia talk about the sorts of things they struggled with what they were engaged with the disorder. Would you view… Read more »
Are Selfies Psychologically Diagnostic?
Description: While you may have an opinion about possible differences between people who do and people who do not regularly take and post “selfies” online what do you think about the possibility that self these can be used as data to tell us about the people who take them? Source: Lecia Bushak, Selfies can reveal… Read more »
Anorexia, Gut Bacteria and the Gut-Brain Axis
Description: It turns out that individuals struggling with anorexia seem to have a narrower array of microbes in their gut than do people without the disorder. What might this observed relationship suggest? Source: Today Health and Wellness Date: October 6, 2015 Links: Article Link – http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151005121310.htm The Study: http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26428446 In this study a small group… Read more »
Cuddle Hormone? Touch and Oxytocin
Description: Would you pay money for a 30 to 45 minute session of cuddling (just cuddling no sex)? Physical touch seems to have the effect of promoting the release of oxytocin, sometime referred to as the “cuddle hormone” in the media and which seems to act to, among other things, reduce stress levels. So are… Read more »
February 22 to 29 is National Eating Disorder Awareness Week
Description: Look over the list of facts regarding eating disorders on the National (American) Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders website for an overview of issues arising from these disorders then watch the National Eating Disorder Information Centre (NEDIC) Video and go to the NEDA site and find out some of the things you… Read more »
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