{"id":400,"date":"2016-09-06T18:42:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T18:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/?page_id=400"},"modified":"2024-03-07T13:15:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T20:15:18","slug":"eating-disorders","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/mental-health-education\/issues\/eating-disorders\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating Disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eating disorders are marked by an unhealthy relationship with food. Anorexia nervosa is characterized by extreme weight loss, excessive dieting and exercise, and distorted body image. People with anorexia never see themselves as thin even when their appear emaciated.<\/p>\n<p>Those who suffer from bulimia nervosa experience cycles of overeating, called a &#8220;binge&#8221;, followed by vomiting or other methods of purging to ease feelings of guilt from overeating.<\/p>\n<p>People who have an eating disorder may experience symptoms of both anorexia and bulimia. It is important to know that eating disorders are driven by unmet emotional needs. Low self-esteem, need for perfection or a lack of sense of control may all contribute to the development of an eating disorder. An eating disorder becomes a self-destructive way to cope with the unpleasant emotions and unmet needs.<\/p>\n<p>Eating disorders can be easy to hide so it&#8217;s crucial to know how to recognize them so you can get treatment quickly.<\/p>\n<h2>3 Important Facts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Eating disorders usually develop during adolescence and early adulthood.<\/li>\n<li>In the U.S., approximately 20 million American women and 10 million men suffer from an eating disorder.<\/li>\n<li>Anorexia nervosa has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eating disorders are marked by an unhealthy relationship with food. Anorexia nervosa is characterized by extreme weight loss, excessive dieting and exercise, and distorted body image. People with anorexia never see themselves as thin even when their appear emaciated. Those who suffer from bulimia nervosa experience cycles of overeating, called a &#8220;binge&#8221;, followed by vomiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485,"parent":41,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-issue.tpl.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927,"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/400\/revisions\/1927"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerchange.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}