MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'bulemia'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:38:05 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2147632&cid=t_125800_134_f&fid=35187&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDiabetesDaily%2F%7E3%2FeXBMr4bTw3Q%2Fhow-a-community-should-handle-eating-disorders.php I would like advice from the community. From time to time, someone on Diabetes Daily shows symptoms of an eating disorder. He or she will start detailing increasingly dangerous eating habits and the painful side effects that inevitably follow. The level of desperation will steadily increase and so will our concern. How should we handle this situation?I think we'll all agree that the first step is to express concern privately.... (Source: Diabetes Daily) Diabetes Daily blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2147632 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:46:55 +0100 2147632 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1755338&cid=t_125800_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F09%2F02%2Fthe-situation-of-body-image%2F University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Madeline Fisher, an expert on the psychology of nutrition, recently wrote an interesting piece that connects the media’s portrayal of women’s body image with eating disorders. We excerpt the piece below. * * * As France’s parliament considers a landmark bill that would outlaw media images glamorizing the extremely thin, psychology researchers are reporting some of the most definitive findings yet on how these images affect women. In the May issue of Psychological Bulletin, University of Wisconsin-Madison postdoctoral researcher Shelly Grabe and psychology professor Janet Hyde describe a sweeping analysis of 77 previous studies involving more than 15,000 subjects. In it, they found that exposure to media depicting ultra-thin actres... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1755338 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:30:49 +0100 1755338 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2510314&cid=t_125800_87_f&fid=35057&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.orlandosentinel.com%2F%7Er%2Ffeatures%2Fhealthblog%2F%7E3%2F5UlOoVhZIug%2Ffrench-may-outl.html PARIS (Associated Press) -- The French parliament's lower house adopted a groundbreaking bill Tuesday that would make it illegal for anyone — including fashion magazines, advertisers and Web sites — to publicly incite extreme thinness. The National Assembly approved the... (Source: Health Check the Blog) Health Check the Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2510314 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:05:00 +0100 2510314 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=682751&cid=t_125800_87_f&fid=34867&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thediabetesblog.com%2F2007%2F06%2F18%2Fdiabulemia-a-disease-manufactured-by-big-pharma%2F Filed under: Type 1, Childhood, Diet, Lifestyle, Drugs, Research, SupportAs Bev just pointed out, diabulimia is a serious condition when a type 1 diabetic is not taking their insulin in order to lose weight. Diabulimia is a term that has only cropped up in recent years. Most people who experience diabulemia are stuck between two fears: taking increasing doses of insulin, which leads to weight gain, and the damage the destructive behavior is causing their body in the long-term. One expert who has studied the phenomenon estimates that 450,000 type 1 diabetic women in the United States - one-third of the total - have skipped or shortchanged their insulin to lose weight and are risking a coma and an early death. Ann Goebel-Fabbri, a clinical psychologist at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston... The Diabetes Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=682751 Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:00:00 +0100 682751