tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30178203.post1929406941364069267..comments2023-10-31T04:16:04.331-05:00Comments on Feed Me!: Is Your Child One of the 12 Percent?Harriethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09774535311853591028noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30178203.post-85918005795771773682009-08-31T00:42:59.085-05:002009-08-31T00:42:59.085-05:00Rachel,
I don't think anorexia nervosa gets ...Rachel, <br /><br />I don't think anorexia nervosa gets the lion's share of research dollars. There's a perception that AN gets a lot of attention and bulimia nervosa is neglected. That might be true in terms of sensational popular media stories, but it is NOT true in terms of treatment studies. There are MORE for BN than AN. <br /><br />Similarly, there is a perception that adolescent eating disorders get lots of attention, but there are FEWER studies of adolescents than adults. Here's a video review of the available adolescent studies. http://vimeo.com/2408156<br /><br />Management of Eating Disorders from the<br />Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality<br />U.S. Department of Health and Human Services gives an overview of the available research. <br /><br />The entire field is woefully understudied, but AN does NOT receive an underdue amount of research attention. In my opinion the popular media attention given to AN is often useless rather than helpful, and can't be considered any kind of advantage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30178203.post-81963639323564011452009-08-21T09:44:28.543-05:002009-08-21T09:44:28.543-05:00I found this chart below on NEDA's website and...I found this <a href="http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/p.asp?WebPage_ID=286&Profile_ID=41138" rel="nofollow">chart below</a> on NEDA's website and think it interesting to note here. The reported funds are for anorexia research only and do not include bulimia or ED-NOS research dollars. But, since anorexia seems to get the lion's share of research dollars, I think it's especially illuminating. The two numbers represent the prevalence and the research funds.<br /><br /><br />Eating disorders: 10 million $12,000,000<br /><br />Alzheimer’s disease: 4.5 million $647,000,000<br /><br />Schizophrenia: 2.2 million $350,000,000Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01460519337017413765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30178203.post-62001841684689512482009-08-20T12:09:45.690-05:002009-08-20T12:09:45.690-05:00I'm sure you're right, Rachel. And who'...I'm sure you're right, Rachel. And who's reporting sub-threshhold cases, in any case? Self-reporting is notoriously inaccurate when it comes to eating disorders.Harriethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09774535311853591028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30178203.post-27318413747542416822009-08-20T10:23:17.331-05:002009-08-20T10:23:17.331-05:00It's also worth pointing out that these statis...It's also worth pointing out that these statistics are compiled based on <i>reported</i> cases of eating disorders, usually by families who have sufficient health insurance coverage to get treatment for them. For example: A <a href="http://the-f-word.org/blog/index.php/2009/03/20/new-study-refutes-bulimia-as-rich-white-girls-disease/" rel="nofollow">recent study</a> showed that rates of bulimia may actually be higher amongst black girls but because minorities disproportionately have less health care coverage than whites, they're just not reported as much. And studies by Dianne Neumark Sztainer indicate that a lot of kids, <i>especially</i> fat kids, engage in dangerous disordered behaviors even if they fall short of a clinical eating disorder diagnosis.Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01460519337017413765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30178203.post-3907082140419600232009-08-19T19:33:57.090-05:002009-08-19T19:33:57.090-05:00I am also imagining that many families, those who ...I am also imagining that many families, those who yell "don't eat so much, you'll get fat!" and then reward the child for being thin, even when (s)he's anorexic by that point,won't acknowledge the eating disorder.Siobhanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07259806500588402830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30178203.post-38612490002096007102009-08-19T18:46:41.304-05:002009-08-19T18:46:41.304-05:00It's interesting and gratifying to note that t...It's interesting and gratifying to note that they include "subthreshold" EDs in that study. I don't have access to the full-text now, but I'm figuring that I would have fallen into the "subthreshold" anorexia category when my eating was very disordered. <br /><br />I was lucky in the sense that I had depression as a comorbidity and getting me on anti-depressants essentially stopped the ED, but my eating is still not entirely ordered. <br /><br />Anyway, that 12%, unfortunately, seems much truer to what I've encountered than the numbers that I've previously seen. That's more than 1 in 10. That's kind of a shocking incidence-- I go to a small liberal arts school where class size is usually around 10-20. That's 1-2 people per class I have. The more I think about it, the more amazed I am, even knowing that person is normally me.Monicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02845223639634944664noreply@blogger.com