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  1. Eating disorders

    Introduction. Eating disorders are serious psychiatric disorders characterised by abnormal eating or weight-control behaviours. Disturbed attitudes towards weight, body shape, and eating play a key role in their origin and maintenance. The form of these concerns varies by gender; in men for example, body image concerns might focus on ...

  2. (PDF) Explanation of Eating Disorders: A Critical Analysis

    Abstract. Eating disorders (EDs) are one of the most severe and complex mental health problems facing researchers and clinicians today. The effective prevention and treatment of these conditions ...

  3. Eating disorders

    Eating disorders are disabling, deadly, and costly mental disorders that considerably impair physical health and disrupt psychosocial functioning. Disturbed attitudes towards weight, body shape, and eating play a key role in the origin and maintenance of eating disorders. Eating disorders have been increasing over the past 50 years and changes in the food environment have been implicated. All ...