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  Lists of people by cause of death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is an index of lists of people who died, by cause of death, in alphabetical order of cause.
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en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lists_of_people_by_cause_of_death   (101 words)

  
 Anorexia Nervosa — The revival of a feminist hoax
In the U.S.: The incidence of anorexia nervosa is approximately 1/100 for adolescent females and is most frequently found in middle to upper class families.
Anorexia nervosa is a psychosociological disease which affects young and healthy girls primarily in adolescence (Bruch, 1978).
At any rate, it appears that the incidence of death from anorexia nervosa is so low that it has yet to raise sufficient concern to be measured without any bias by the "researchers" involved in investigating it.
www.fathersforlife.org /health/anorexia8.htm   (1694 words)

  
 Looking at anorexia nervosa from another perspective
The "victims" of anorexia nervosa receive an excessive amount of concern that is far out of proportion in relation to the scope of their problems, compared to other, far more prevalent, far more pressing and far more often deadly social issues.
Anorexia nervosa kills people, mostly women, by far, almost exclusively; and feminists have, as explained in the other anorexia-nervosa pages of this set, exploited the tactics for manufacturing victims to the hilt with generating concerns about poor victims of anorexia nervosa.
Anorexia nervosa, by causing 54 women of all ages per year to die from its consequences, ranks below any of the ten-highest ranking causes of death of women in the age group 15-24.
www.fathersforlife.org /health/anorexia10.htm   (1569 words)

  
 Eating Disorders: Anorexia and Bulimia
The patient with anorexia nervosa has an intense fear of gaining weight, even when he or she is severely underweight.
Anorexia nervosa is the third most common chronic illness in adolescent women, and is estimated to occur in 0.5% to 3% of all teenagers.
Anorexia is eight times more common in people who have relatives with the disorder, and some experts estimate that genetic factors may influence more than half of the variances in eating disorders.
www.mercydesmoines.org /ADAM/WellConnected/articles/000049.asp   (10544 words)

  
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Comparing this anorexic group to the death rate of 190,000 women from the general population with the same age distribution, I calculated that as a conservative estimate, yearly deaths among the anorexics are at least 950 above the overall death rate.
It gave the deaths from anorexia nervosa as 101 in 1983 and 67 in 1988.
Death certificates can be especially misleading for mental illnesses, since the physician filling out the forms is usually not a psychiatrist and may have never met the person.
www.polisci.ucla.edu /faculty/boneill/anorexia.html   (1619 words)

  
 Anorexia, Bulimia...and Obesity
Anorexia is most likely to begin sometime between adolescence and the early 20s, but it can appear in children under the age of 10 or in women as old as 70.
Since anorexia usually causes menstrual periods to stop and breasts to flatten, other experts theorize that girls who refuse to eat may be expressing a desire to remain children, free of adult bodies, adult sexual relationships, and adult responsibilities.
Doctors look for such common signs of anorexia as a patient's conviction that she needs to lose weight, a weight loss of at least 25 percent, and absence of at least 3 consecutive menstrual periods.
www.healthsquare.com /fgwh/wh1ch34.htm   (5142 words)

  
 Eating Disorders
Three psychiatric eating disorders, anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and binge eating disorder are on the increase among teenage girls and young women and often run in families.
The diagnosis of anorexia is made when the anorexic either loses fifteen percent (15%) of their weight or when the growing child fails to acquire eighty-five percent (85%) of the minimal weight for their particular age and height.
A teenager with anorexia nervosa is typically a perfectionist and a high achiever in school.
www.focusas.com /EatingDisorders.html   (1927 words)

  
 Swallowing the Hurt: Exploring the Links between Anorexia, Bulimia and Violence Against Women and Girls, NCFV, Public ...
The Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa Foundation of Victoria (2000) estimates that the prevalence of bulimia in post-secondary students, however, may be as high as one in six.
(1995), of the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry in Toronto, observe that full-syndrome anorexia nervosa affects 0.56% of the population and that partial-syndrome anorexia nervosa is present in 1.4%.
In fact, fear of injury or death is as high for women who are raped by their husbands and their dates as it is for survivors of stranger rapes (Koss, 1989).
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 I, Catherine
By the age of twenty‑five, maybe a bit earlier we are told, she ate "nothing." Elsewhere it becomes clear that Catherine did not in fact eat nothing and that total suppression of hunger did not come to her easily or involuntarily (as her letter quoted earlier ingenuously claims) in the absence of her religious impulses.
Death was not an uncommon or hidden experience in fourteenth‑century Siena, yet for Catherine the blow must have been severe.
Following the death of her older sister, for which she blamed herself, Catherine was repelled by all worldliness, absolutely refused to take any bridegroom but Christ, and entered upon the conquest of her body.
www.scc.rutgers.edu /italy'speoples/exerpts/cathy.htm   (14402 words)

  
 All-Net | essential reading   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The mortality rate for anorexia nervosa has been estimated by meta-analysis to be 5.9%, the majority of deaths being the result of serious cardiac complications.
Diminished exercise capacity in anorexia has been attributed to a loss of muscle mass, dysfunction of remaining muscle, and impaired cardiovascular responses.
Prolonged QT interval is common in patients with anorexia nervosa; it will often revert to normal after refeeding.
pedsccm.wustl.edu /All-Net/english/reading/anorcard.html   (327 words)

  
 List of deaths from anorexia nervosa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This is a list of famous people who have died from anorexia nervosa.
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
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 Treatments for Anorexia Nervosa - CureResearch.com
Treatments of Anorexia Nervosa discussion: Anorexia is a mental problem manifested in a physical form.
People with anorexia will beg and lie to avoid eating and gaining weight; it means giving up the illness and giving up the control.
Anorexia is an illness that can not be controlled by simple willpower - but rather needs professional guidance.
www.cureresearch.com /a/anorexia_nervosa/treatments.htm   (525 words)

  
 Anorexia Nervosa - Patient UK
Epidemiology Estimated mean yearly incidence in the general population for anorexia nervosa of 20 per 100,000 people a year in women and 2 per 100,000 people a year in men.
Refer patients with severe anorexia nervosa (body mass index less than 15 kg/m2), rapid weight loss, or evidence of system failure urgently to specialist services, or a medical unit if the physical status of the patient is life threatening.
Psychological treatments of anorexia nervosa include cognitive analytic therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy, focal psychodynamic therapy and family interventions focused explicitly on eating disorders.
www.patient.co.uk /showdoc/40000626   (1054 words)

  
 Eating Disorders: Anorexia and Bulimia - UMMC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Eating disorders are devastating behavioral maladies brought on by a complex interplay of factors, which may include emotional and personality disorders, family pressures, a possible genetic or biologic susceptibility, and a culture in which there is an overabundance of food and an obsession with thinness.
Anorexia usually first occurs in adolescence with peaks at 13 to 14 years of age and at 17 to 18 years of age.
One study of Navy men, for example, reported a prevalence of 2.5% for anorexia, 6.8% of bulimia, and 40% for binge eating.
www.umm.edu /patiented/doc49full.html   (10732 words)

  
 The Outcome of Anorexia Nervosa in the 20th Century -- Steinhausen 159 (8): 1284 -- American Journal of Psychiatry
Martin FE: The treatment and outcome of anorexia nervosa in adolescents: a prospective study and five-year follow-up.
Theander S: Anorexia nervosa with an early onset: selection, gender, outcome, and results of a long-term follow-up study.
Russell GFM: Anorexia nervosa of early onset and its impact on puberty, in Feeding Problems and Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents.
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 wolfe.html
They are not a normal product of society, nor is there any logical argument to say that they are the result of some intentional attempt to keep women down.
Anorexia and bulimia are psychological disorders, hence why it is listed in the DSM4, which is the standard guidebook for psychological disorders.
Almost four out of every five deaths from anorexia nervosa are people over the age of forty five.
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 Baltimore City Paper: NEWS Introducing the Pro-Anorexia Web, Where the Ultimate Control Freaks Find Friendship,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Many members of e-mail lists I was on are in treatment; they remain on the lists and sites to keep in touch with their friends.
It occurs to me that in the face of death, it is amazing to see the outpouring of love and support in e-mails and on many sites.
I recall a list member's recent cry for help--the deluge of "suicide is never the answer!" pleas that followed was awe-inspiring, and the girl's eventual grateful promise to hang in there was blessed relief.
www.citypaper.com /2002-07-24/feature.html   (5638 words)

  
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 Eating Disorders (Anorexia, Bulimia, Compulsive Overeating) Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
You have a long list of forbidden foods, and the thought of being forced to eat something you banned makes you panic.
Look over this list of warning signs of eating disorders, and if you match the majority of them, there is a good chance that you have an eating disorder.
Yet few parents, teachers or school counselors know how to recognize the signs of anorexia and bulimia.
www.concernedcounseling.com /Communities/Eating_Disorders/Site   (568 words)

  
 Dietiquette.info - Famous People With Anorexia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
I've even gone the distance to prove to you that sites for famous people with anorexia don't provide the information you may be looking for by including links below and ads above that are supposed related to famous people with anorexia.
Anne's daughter, Dawn Langstroth, is recovering from anorexia...
Probably the most famous case is that of Karen Carpenter, who died from heart failure resulting from anorexia...
www.dietiquette.info /famous-people-with-anorexia.php   (550 words)

  
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Shock, DIC, acidosis and death within 12-24 hours may occur with extensive DIC and purpura fulminans.
Antibiotics are not part of treatment of an uncomplicated course because the toxin is primarily an intracellular molecule that is released into the intestinal lumen with vegetative bacterial cell death and lysis.
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 Eating Disorders | Anorexia | Bulimia | Binge Eating Disorder | Compulsive Overeating | News | The Something Fishy ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The articles in the list below appear on other websites and have either been submitted, or we found the link through our own travels!
If you know of a link to an article that should appear here, please send it to me by e-mail.
Anorexia nervosa, a disorder in which the person starves herself.
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