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Boys' Eating Disorders Unfold
posted by Scott on Wednesday March 20, @06:03AM
from the boys/young-men dept.
Boys/Young Men Bill Kuhl sent us this article and writes, "Today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch has a good article on boys and eating disorders. About the first third or so of the article talks about how boys are not recognized as potentially having the disease and it follows the travails of one boy to get help. Apparently he had to be driven from St. Louis to Iowa to get inpatient treatment that accepts boys."

Source: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch [newspaper]

Title: Boys' eating disorders unfold; insurers hold off on coverage

Author: Cynthia Billhartz

Date: March 19, 2002

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not surprising (Score:1)
by Tony (menrights@aol.com) on Saturday March 23, @12:50AM EST (#1)
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Actually this is an area about for sometime. My wife is an expert in the area of eating disorders and she acknowledges that eating disorders for males is seriously under recognized and undertreated. Many eatting disorder treatment centers that are nationally known will not even accept males into thier programs for treatment. In addition the focus of the research and treatment is often on the physical representation of women in the media and patriarchal control of women limiting thier ability to express themselves. All of which fails when applied to men and boys. A better way of thinking about eatting disorders is as subset of a larger disorder called body dismorphia. In this disorder people have a mental picture of thier body that is not based on reality. (think of the bodybuilder that feels he is too skinny or the 300 lbs linebacker that feels he needs to put on weight.)This problem is far more prevelant among men than the statistics show. Most men with this problem are ignored or shamed into silence since the public feels it is a female issue and as a result the warning signs are seldom recognized. some good books dealing with men and eating disorders are "The Adonis Complex" (the better of the two) and "Making weight"
Tony H
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