The word
"anorexic" is used to describe someone who has a severe lack or loss of appetite, often resulting in unhealthy weight loss. It can also refer to a medical condition called anorexia nervosa, where individuals have an intense fear of gaining weight and may restrict their food intake.
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This is the only book available that addresses the particular needs
of anorexics with the techniques of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a revolutionary new psychotherapy.
The idea is to treat the disorder in adolescence to prevent more adults from
becoming anorexic.»
Leptin levels are highly correlated with body fat levels even in cases of severe calorie restriction (as in those found
in anorexic women).
On a straight fighting level, SoulCalibur has never been better and although it might be a little
anorexic for lone warriors, the multiplayer side offers more than any Soul title since the original Calibur made the Dreamcast a must - have.
In a case study in Pediatrics recently, Leslie Sim at the Mayo Clinic described two obese teens who went more than a year
with anorexic behaviors before they were diagnosed because they never dropped below an expected average weight for their ages.
My only concern was how someone,
as anorexic looking as she is, could actually hold and shoot one of those handheld cannons without getting compound fractures in her thin bones.
There are recovery groups for
intimacy anorexics and sex addicts, and groups that combine the two.
Reduced
anorexic effects of insulin in obesity - prone rats fed a moderate - fat diet.
Yesterday, just before my gym class, a huddle of mums formed to express (whispered) concern about the possibly pregnant, possibly
anorexic woman in attendance.
Dr Miles Becker is a healer recovering from the truth that he couldn't heal his own wife, and Twila Boaz is a recovering
anorexic who works in her mother's health food store while waiting to see where God leads her.
The movie, which was acquired by the streaming service at Sundance earlier this year, follows Ellen, an unruly, 20 - year - old
anorexic girl who spent the better part of her teenage years being shepherded through various recovery programs, only to find herself several pounds lighter every time.
The staff at Monte Nido understands what both the patient and their families are going through as some of them are
recovered anorexic patients!
This guide will bring about healing for those impacted by their spouse's intimacy
anorexic behavior.
He was
anorexic when he was a kid, but he managed to overcome anorexia and started bodybuilding.
«Fat - hating culture»: Overweight people told to take advice
from anorexics Leo Kottke - Renowned for his adroit fingerpicking guitar style, Leo Kottke's blues - tinged playing has made an indelible imprint on the world of folk music.
With some of the research on anorexia, I don't know if this is readily applicable to other people, but I know that in
anorexic people, cutting calories and severe restriction definitely accelerates the progression of depression and other psychological problems.
She has also manipulated her photographs on the computer, turning slender models into
anorexic bodies.
I'm not asking for size 14 models, but I don't want
anorexic models either.
Here's the synopsis: Ellen is an unruly, 20 - year -
old anorexic girl who spent the better part of her teenage years being shepherded through various recovery programs, only to find herself several pounds lighter every time.
Suffering from an intense fear of sexual contact, the
sexual anorexic lives a life of desperate aversion and deprivation, behaviours that are compulsive and interfere in their lives.
A new medication called capromorelin (Entyce ®) has been approved for
anorexic dogs.
Obesity has been linked to diabetes mellitus, lameness and skin disease (Scarlett & Donoghue, 1998) and is a risk factor for hepatic lipidosis in
anorexic cats (Biourge et al., 1994).
Neurobiologist Samantha Brooks at Uppsala Biomedical Center in Sweden is studying
how anorexics control their desire to eat.
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Many anorexic patients with poor insight are able to understand someone else's severe restricting is very dangerous for that person, but they can't see it for themselves even when they are doing exactly the same thing,» Leow said.
But when we're interested in how fast do
anorexics lose weight, we're usually curious about one of the stand - alone clinical conditions, and that's either Anorexia Nervosa or Anorexia Mirabilis.
I just have to admit I really can't stand a skinny
anorexic man....
The addict -
anorexic avoids relational sex and, hence, this couple has sex infrequently and often only at the non-addicted partner's request.
To delineate, in a family session, the young woman's
anorexic symptoms as simply a struggle for autonomy may be useful in developing a conflict focus that is stated in inter-personal terms, but for a structural family therapist to consider it to be the entire truth is also to underestimate severely the resistance there will be to structural challenge.
Self - perceived family functioning in 40 French families of
anorexic adolescents: implications for therapy.
«Hunger versus reward: How
do anorexics control their appetite?.»
I was astonished by Robert Pool's account of Thomas Joiner's theory that
anorexics find suicide easy because they are used to pain (28 February, p 37).
The self - analysis can be essential to a successful anorexia recovery, because it may
help anorexic patients recognize and accept their problems.
So this resulted in me
going anorexic at the age of 13 and losing a total of 70 pounds in less than a year.
I was
also anorexic in high school for 2 years — not exactly a «diet», but definitely a different way of eating (and the worst thing I've ever done to my body).
Still, on a straight fighting level, SoulCalibur has never been better and although it might be a
little anorexic for lone warriors, the multiplayer side offers more than any Soul title since the original Calibur made the Dreamcast a must - have.
With a diet rich in high - quality protein, your dog will maintain muscle mass as it ages and be more likely to experience long - term health and well - being — just like Dr. Joyce's
once anorexic beagle.
With a diet rich in high - quality protein, your dog will maintain muscle mass as it ages and will be more likely to experience long - term health and well - being — just like Dr. Joyce's once
anorexic beagle.
Her 1990s erotic bunny sculptures — limp,
seriously anorexic, stuffed nylon dolls, so exhausted they can hardly sit up in their straight - backed chairs — are as comic as they are pathetic.