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Heather Colman's Articles in Eating Disorder

  • Exactly What Is An Eating Disorder?
    Eating disorders are some of the most destructive illnesses today. Although a commonly used term, the meaning is often a source of confusion for many people. Basically, eating disorders happen to people whose diet patterns have gone awry somewhere along the way and ultimately lead to eating habits that are damaging and dangerous.

    Even though these disorders have occurred in many as stand alone ailments, they are often accompanied by feelings of rejection and extreme stress...
  • What Is Anorexia Nervosa?
    Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes an eating disorder characterized by low body weight and body image distortion. Individuals with anorexia often control body weight by voluntary starvation, purging, vomiting, excessive exercise, or other weight control measures, such as diet pills or diuretic drugs.

    Anorexia nervosa primarily affects young adolescent girls in the Western world and has one of the highest mortality rates of any psychiatric condition,...

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