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Subscribe to RSSOn Wednesday, "Nightly News" reported on a problem affecting at least one million males: eating disorders. Anorexia is typically associated with teenage girls, but now some treatment centers are seeing an increase in the number of boys seeking help.
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If you think that you or a loved one may be suffering from an eating disorder, visit these helpful resources or call the National Eating Disorders live helpline at 800-931-2237 (Monday – Friday: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. EST)
National Eating Disorders Association: http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/
National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders: http://www.anad.org/
National Association for Males with Eating Disorders: http://namedinc.org/
International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals: http://www.iaedp.com/
Eating Disorders Coalition: http://www.eatingdisorderscoalition.org/
Families Empowered and Supporting Treatment of Eating Disorders: http://www.feast-ed.org/
Eating Disorders Resource Center: http://www.edrcsv.org/
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I just viewed your "Boys Dying to be Thin: The New Face of Annorexia." Please inform your viewers that someone with unexplained weight loss may possibly have an undiagnosed digestive disease like Crohn's.
When my son was 19, he was also losing weight and having strange eating habits. The doctors all thought he had an eating disorder and wouldn't believe me that something was terribly wrong. After continuing to pursue, my son had a MRI and eventually surgury since he had developed Peritonitis. The result was Crohn's disease. Please see the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America at www.ccfa.org.
With the right medicine, my son has gained his weight back and is doing extremely well now.
Knowledge is power. Thank you!
What you are saying,the responsibility rests with the family or partner.Wake up STUPID,take the resonsibility,and do something too help these poor people.You cant be that DUMB.