Let's Give Eating Disorders a New Name
Feb 25, 2008 - As Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2008 gets underway, I'd like to
propose that we all consider giving eating disorders a new name.
There is now ample scientific evidence that these disorders are
biologically based mental illnesses. Anorexia nervosa has a higher
mortality rate than alcoholism or schizophrenia, and the cause of death is
not always directly related to food intake or…