{"id":2389,"date":"2007-07-26T17:21:18","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T17:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diyhealth.com\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2020-05-15T16:02:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T10:32:22","slug":"social-pressure-awareness-increasing-anorexia-among-women-over-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/globalhealthcare\/social-pressure-awareness-increasing-anorexia-among-women-over-30","title":{"rendered":"Social pressure, awareness increasing Anorexia among women over 30"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"girlWith more and more mid-aged women developing the obsessive fear of weight gain along with teenagers, the symptoms of Anorexia nervosa<\/a> is also spreading across the age groups – once considered the disease of the youths. <\/strong><\/p>\n

This eating disorder with decreased appetite like anorexia <\/a>and bulimia <\/a>is increasingly found in women in their 30s, 40s, 50s, and older in recent years.<\/p>\n

The medical fraternity alarmed by the increase is resorting to ‘special programs’<\/strong> designed especially for these more mature patients.<\/p>\n

Dr. Donald McAlpine, director of an eating disorders clinic at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Said,<\/p>

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The epidemiology is pretty clear that anorexia and bulimia both peak in the late teens, early 20s…. (yet) a lot of (patients) continue to be symptomatic right on through to middle life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But what is causing more and more women in their 30s seeking treatment for what has always been a young woman’s typical problem?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The study discovered several factors involved in making the mid-aged women fall prey to eating disorders –
\n\t<\/strong>growing public awareness,
\n\t<\/strong>social pressure to grow thin and
\n\t<\/strong>an aging group of baby boomers<\/p>\n

The researchers do not justify the changing trend as just the desire of being a cheerleader or a homecoming queen — it is something bigger than what can apparently be predicted without any efforts.<\/p>\n

It is more about dealing with an aging process, social and professional competition and of course childbirth – which majorly changes the way look, which a teenage does not have to face.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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