You don't have to be underweight to have an eating disorder - new study shows that a normal body weight can hide serious eating disorders like anorexia in teens…
A new study has shown that a normal body weight can hide serious eating disorders in teens… November 06, 2019 - 14:32 GMT Alex Light "But you don't look like you have an eating disorder..." is something I used to hear all the time, and btw, you should never say this to anyone with an eating disorder. Also, it's not a thing.
Which leads me onto a really scary new study that's just been published, showing that teens and young adults can have normal body weights and still be dangerously ill, both mentally and physically. The study, led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the University of California-San Francisco, finds that a normal body weight can hide this eating disorder, which is called atypical anorexia nervosa.
Typical anorexia nervosa required individuals to be 85 per cent below their ideal body weight to be diagnosed, but in 2013, this new category, atypical anorexia nervosa, was recognised. Sufferers of this disease meet all other diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa but they have a normal body weight."This group of patients is under-recognised and undertreated," said the study's senior author, Neville Golden, MD, professor of paediatrics at the Stanford School of Medicine.
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