"If you're viewing it as a diet, then you are putting it into a category where someone can just quit doing whatever they're doing."
I may have missed it, but I have not read anywhere here that anyone views an Eating Disorder as a diet. A diet may bring on the malnutrition that leads to the ED in a susceptible individual, a disorder which affects the mind and body, both a mental and physical illness.
I could post a list of studies here but instead will quote from a reliable source, NEDA, National Eating Disorders Association USA.
"Dieting can lead to an eating disorder.
Many studies and many health professionals note that patients with eating disorders were dieting at the time of the development of their eating disorder.
Dieting may not cause an eating disorder, but the constant concern about body weight and shape, fat grams and calories can start a vicious cycle of body dissatisfaction and obsession that can lead all too quickly to an eating disorder"
I like the use of the word "catalysts", I think it fits very well.
Predisposition + catalysts can equal ED.
You can't change the predisposition but you can avoid the catalysts, in most cases you can avoid the malnutrition.
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"If you're viewing it as a diet, then you are putting it into a category where someone can just quit doing whatever they're doing."
I may have missed it, but I have not read anywhere here that anyone views an Eating Disorder as a diet. A diet may bring on the malnutrition that leads to the ED in a susceptible individual, a disorder which affects the mind and body, both a mental and physical illness.
I could post a list of studies here but instead will quote from a reliable source, NEDA, National Eating Disorders Association USA.
"Dieting can lead to an eating disorder.
Many studies and many health professionals note that patients with eating disorders were dieting at the time of the development of their eating disorder.
Dieting may not cause an eating disorder, but the constant concern about body weight and shape, fat grams and calories can start a vicious cycle of body dissatisfaction and obsession that can lead all too quickly to an eating disorder"
I like the use of the word "catalysts", I think it fits very well.
June 13, 2009 - 12:08pmPredisposition + catalysts can equal ED.
You can't change the predisposition but you can avoid the catalysts, in most cases you can avoid the malnutrition.
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