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Big surprise.  At least to me.  Do you know whose  binge eating  hurts them more?  It's men. According to newswise.com, "Obese men with binge eating disorder are more likely to develop metabolic syndrome, including high blood pressure, elevated glucose and high cholesterol." Women, of course, also suffer from this eating disorder but apparently it does not affect them the same way. Men have generally been under-represented in studies of obesity and of binge eating disorder, newswise.com quotes Tomoko Udo, Ph.D., associate research scientist in psychiatry at Yale University and lead author of the study. "People used to think binge eating was less common in men than women," she said. But sadly, that's turning out not to be the case.  We both are guilty of it. Binge eating disorder is defined as the repeated consumption of large quantities of food in a short period of time without the vomiting seen in bulimia. People with binge eating diso...

Big surprise.  Women who are frequently encouraged by their significant others to lose weight are more likely to resort to unhealthy measures, such as fasting and diet pills, according to a new study  by the Health Behavior News Service, part of the Center for Advancing Health, reported at newswise.com. Almost half of the participants said their significant other encouraged them to diet. Unhealthy weight control behaviors -- fasting, using diet pills, and self-induced vomiting -- and some of the more extreme ways young adults try to control their weight, are often the beginning of more severe eating disorders, depression and other health problems, the study found. I'm a big fan of the shows on addiction and intervention, and I can't count on one hand the number of episodes that show young women -- even pregnant women -- hovering over the toilet as all the food they've eaten -- or binged on -- pours out.   I'm fortunate.  My husband could care less w...