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"The zinc connection also may help explain the predominance of eating disorders in females as opposed to males. "We finally realized that zinc is highly concentrated in the male prostate, providing a mineral essential for sperm development," Dr. Schauss says. "If a male is under psychological stress, he has storages of zinc in the prostate. Since women don't have prostates, they catab-olize the zinc from other tissue. The richest tissue in the human body for zinc is the muscle tissue. In anorexia, a common feature is muscle wasting." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"More recently, researchers have been able to diagnose eating disorders from hair samples. Indeed, the quality, quantity, and color of our hair can all be signs of our physical well-being. No wonder hair is said to be a barometer of health. SIGN OF THE TIMES In ancient Egypt, both men and women shaved their heads and wore wigs. Priests, however, had to remove each and every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. STARTING AT THE TOP HAIR TEXTURE CHANGES Hair is made up mostly of dead protein (keratin), but that doesn't mean it's supposed to lie there listlessly." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Steroids cause just as many disorders as the conditions for which they are used, including liver cancer, heart disease, depression, hostility and aggression, eating disorders, stunted height, risk of HIV, acne, and dozens more. Tamoxifen is a popular drug now used to prevent breast cancer recurrence in women. The drug can cause weight gain of up to 25 pounds, enough to dramatically increase the risk of other cancers, heart disease, and diabetes." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Most antidepressants are designed to improve serotonin function, and are widely used by autistics, ADHD children, and also kids with depression, eating disorders, migraines, and other problems that are related to serotoniiji. The potential for positive response to antidepressants among autistics is highly variable, and in most cases low doses are best for achieving efficacy and reducing side effects. The most encouraging responses that have been achieved by antidepressants include lessening of repetitive thoughts and behaviors." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Kids who eat well are less likely to develop eating disorders or become overweight. These days, so many teenagers, especially teenage girls, are obsessed with having the "perfect body"—an impossible image dictated by the magazines that they read and the television shows they watch. In pursuit of this perfection, they obsessively count calories while subsisting on diet cola and toxic snack foods. Even scarier: they also might develop a dependency on natural-health supplements for weight control or bodybuilding." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"About 10 percent had early menopausal symptoms, 10 percent were affected by hormonal contraceptives, and about 5 percent each were found to have eating disorders or substance abuse issues predominating. Anyone who considers her PMS to be significantly bothersome might be wise to check with her practitioner should her efforts with self-care fail. There may be other, more effective treatments, either for the PMS itself or for an underlying condition. Most women feel different emotionally and physically during the premenstruum." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Not all advice on nutritional habits for women with amenorrhea is related to dietary fat, calories, body weight, or eating disorders. Some nutritional guidance is relevant to the prevention of osteoporosis, a potential consequence of amenorrhea. Please see Chapter 14 for more information on preventing osteoporosis. Supplements Vitamin A and the Carotenes. Carotenemia, an abnormal elevation of plasma carotene levels, may result from an excessive ingestion of carotene-rich vegetables, anorexia, and impaired ability of the body to metabolize carotenes." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Lifestyle: Counseling (for eating disorders) Stress management counseling and practices Reduce exercise from excessive to moderate (continued) Sample Treatment Plans for Amenorrhea {continued) Mineral supplementation: Calcium/magnesium/ boron/vitamin D/other trace minerals and nutrients (see Chapter 14) Oral contraceptives with 30 meg of ethinyl estradiol Consider bio-identical hormones: Estriol 2 mg/ estradiol 0." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"While SSRIs were first approved as treatment for clinical depression, other uses were steadily added during the course of the 1990s: indications came, one after the other, for obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders, anxiety, and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (a severe form of premenstrual syndrome). The drugs were also used for paraphilias, sexual compulsions, and body dysmorphic disorder. With each new utilization, the market got bigger, lines between distress and disease got blurrier, and the drugs began to be prescribed for problems beyond those indicated by the FDA." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "Carl Elliott has written that, not long after their introduction, "clinicians soon started to use SSRIs to treat social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, eating disorders, paraphilias, sexual compulsions, body dysmorphic disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder. With each new disorder came a new market of potential antidepressant users: uptight Americans, melancholy Americans, weight-obsessed Americans, shy and lonely Americans sitting at home on the couch, watching cable TV ..." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Alexander Schauss, who provided the patient story above, has done a lot of important work in the field of eating disorders. He spearheaded the understanding of the role of zinc in diagnosis and treatment. Dr. Schauss and his staff were intrigued as to how a simple nutrient like zinc could cause a major change in the way the brain functions. " - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"WARNING SIGNS Mouth-related signs of eating disorders include: ¦ Swollen salivary glands ¦ Changes in tooth color, shape,and length ¦ Brittle teeth ¦ Translucent teeth ¦ Red, dry, cracked lips ¦ Bad breath CRACKED TEETH If you're among the 20% of adults who grind or clench their teeth during the day and the 8% of those who do it in their sleep, you may see or feel a fracture on your teeth. A frac- SPEAKING OF SIGNS A knife is the tooth of the old; the tooth is the oldest knife." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Patient Story: Bulimia_ The woman was 4 7'years old, a psychotherapist with a doctoral degree who had been treating patients with eating disorders for almost 15 years. She herself had bulimia—about five binge-purge episodes per day for the last 34 years. She could hardly recount a single day since she was 12 when she did not engage in bulimic activity. We gave her a small amount, about 5 or 10 milliliters, less than a tablespoon, of liquid zinc and asked her to swirl it around for a few seconds and tell us what she tasted." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"These problems include depression, insomnia, eating disorders, and chronic headaches. Unfortunately, some kids are overmedicated, and inappropriately medicated with antidepressants, but the blame for this lies with physicians, not the drugs themselves. When antidepressants and other drugs that affect mood and behavior were first introduced, there was a great deal of skepticism about them, much of which was deserved. Many of the first generation of mood disorder drugs had notable side effects, such as weight gain or lethargy." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"There have been 180 outcome studies to date, for people suffering from conditions as diverse as drug and alcohol abuse, smoking, diabetes, gambling, HIV, eating disorders, anxiety, and depression. Most studies have found that people exposed to Motivational Interviewing as a pretreatment, and sometimes as the treatment itself, experience substantial gains. Motivational Interviewing seems poised for a "tipping point"—a broad takeoff. Wthout Miller and Rollnick's ever having marketed the technique (they do have a bare-bones Web site, www.motivational interviewing." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"A main topic of discussion at the event was girls who suffered from eating disorders, a group Pfizer was interested in. The company was trying to show in studies that these girls could be treated with Zoloft, its antidepressant. Miss America worked with teenage girls, but the marketers required a more masculine approach when it came to men, a group not generally susceptible to messages that claimed they were sick. "We know that men don't like to go to the doctor as much as women," one Pfizer marketing executive explained in 2003. " - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Obesity, disordered eating, and eating disorders in a longitudinal study of adolescents: How do dieters fare five years later? J. Am. Diet. Assoc. 106, 559-568. 225. Stice, E., Cameron, R. P., Killen, J. D?Hayward, C, and Taylor, C. B. (1999). Naturalistic weight-reduction efforts prospectively predict growth in relative weight and onset of obesity among female adolescents. /. Consult. Clin. Psychol. 67, 967-974. 226. Wardle, J., and Beinart, H. (1981). Binge eating: A theoretical review. Br. J. Clin. Psychol. 20, 97-109. 227. Polivy, J., and Herman, C. P. (1985). Dieting and binging." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "It is suggested that there is a higher risk of eating disorders, or disordered eating behaviors and body perceptions, among athletes in weight-division sports or sports in which success is associated with low body fat levels than might be expected in the general community. Females seem at greater risk than males, reflecting the general dissatisfaction of females in the community with their body shape, as well as the biological predisposition for female athletes to have higher body fat levels than male athletes, despite undertaking the same training program." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Even where clinical eating disorders do not exist, many athletes appear to be "restrained eaters," reporting energy intakes that are considerably less than their expected energy requirements. An adequate intake of energy is a prerequisite for many of the goals of sports nutrition. The "female athlete triad"—the coexistence of disordered eating, disturbed menstrual function, and suboptimal bone density—has received considerable publicity [10-12]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Although the diagnosis itself need not trigger an automatic referral for nutrition assessment, some behaviors seen with ASD can lead to feeding or eating disorders. For example, a child with ASD may have difficulty eating school lunch with a group of peers because of other distractions in the cafeteria. If the child eats a broad range of foods that adequately meet protein, energy, and micronutrient needs, then basic nutrition education is appropriate, focusing on strategies for working with picky eaters in order to prevent development of a limited food repertoire." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"When people have problems in this energy center, they often manifest as eating disorders, intestinal disorders, or diseases of the pancreas or liver. The fourth energy center surrounds the heart. This is where we store energies and emotions relating to love, family relationships, and long-term friendships. The heart is also a center for human virtue (honesty, loyalty, trustworthiness, courage, and so forth). As we've already discussed, when people have problems in this energy center, they tend to show up as heart disease or pulmonary problems. The fifth energy center is in the throat." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"To continue with our example, an imbalance of the kidney meridian may result in eating disorders, changes in complexion, weakened vision, feelings of anxiety or fear, or other symptoms that from a commonsense, cause-and-effect perspective have nothing to do with kidney function. For instance, by stimulating an acupuncture point at one end of the kidney meridian, in the foot, an acupuncturist can seek to alleviate a headache, because the other end of the channel affects the head and brain." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Magneton therapy is currently having quite an impact, being used to treat a variety of ailments, from various respiratory conditions to painful conditions, as well as fatigue, dizziness, eating disorders, and insomnia. Remarkable success has been achieved with magneton therapy to relieve painful muscular disorders and disease involving the nerves, skin, blood vessels and bones." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.) "Smoking, drug and alcohol addiction and eating disorders can be controlled with hypnosis. The highest level of co-operation and trust must exist between the patient and the hypnotherapist. At the outset, therapists discuss the patient's problems, what they want to achieve, dispel any perceived concerns, and explain just what will happen during a session. Following 6-8 weekly sessions—or after an illness has been brought under control—most therapists teach their patients self-hypnosis." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"If recovery and improvement are documented in autism, what does that mean for Alzheimer's, chronic depression, bipolar disease, psychosis, eating disorders, or violent sociopathic behavior? These problems, it seems, are not hard-wired into the brain, as we believed, but the result of a few common systemic problems that completely mess up the fine dance and coordination of the brain—problems that can be fixed metabolically and systemically. Dr." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Frequently, eating disorders are food addictions. When you have a food sensitivity, there is a certain phase of it that makes you really crave that food. And if you happen to be addicted to wheat or baked goods, for example, you can never get enough of them, with the result that you may become obese. To give another example, men who are addicted to corn may drink a lot of beer and they can become alcoholics. They're sensitive to and addicted to the beer, but it's the corn—or sometimes some other component?in the beer that is causing the problem." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Victoria BidWell illustrates how salt and cooked food addicts can actually misinterpret the need for more water as the need for more food: Some people with compulsive eating disorders in particular have been conditioned to misinterpret what is true thirst for water as false craving for food and will enter into a binge episode when misinterpreting simple thirst. If these people are eating cooked food ?or even salted and condimented raw food ?" - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"They include lower IQ, anxiety, aggressive behavior, hyperactivity, depression, eating disorders, fatigue, learning difficulties, and premenstrual syndrome.4 • :* Sugar causes crusting in your brain.Think about that sugary crust on creme brtile or a crusty bread or crispy chicken skin. Sugar in these foods (and in your body) reacts with proteins and forms little crusts or plaques called AGEs (advanced glycation end products).These crusty sugar-protein combos gum up your brain, leading to dementia, and damage most cells and tissues along the way. So get off the sugar and save your brain." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "They include disorders of childhood, delirium, dementia, or cognitive disorders, substance abuse disorders, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, eating disorders, and sleep disorders. But this description of depression (and of all the other mental disorders in the DSM-IV) is only of the symptoms we observe." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "Our broken brains cause many problems—anxiety, depression, bipolar disease, personality disorders, eating disorders, addictions, obsessive- compulsive disorder, attention deficit disorder, autism, Asperger's, learning difficulties, and dyslexia. Broken brains take many shapes, including psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia and mania, as well as all the neurodegenerative diseases of aging, especially Alzheimer's, dementia, and Parkinson's disease. In addition, there are brain dysfunctions that fall on the lighter side of the broken brain continuum." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

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