~99% are women. Male cases care being reports with increased frequency.
~Eating Disorders can lead to death or life-long problems in self-starvation and even in those of normal weight who deprive compusively binge and purge, but it can be cured.
~Reports to ANAD show victims can be rich or poor.
~Altough most anorexics and bulimics start in their teens, a significant number are now in their uppers 20's, 30's and 40's or older.
~More and more cases are being reported with 8 to 11 year old's.
~1/3 to 1/2 of all eating disorder patients struggle with depression or anxiety.
~6% - 10% of people with Eating Disorders usually die of a heart attack.
~5'4"-142 lbs. is the average height of an American woman.
~5'9"-110 lbs. is the average height and weight of a model.
~40% of people between 40-50 years old who suffer from anorexia are men.
~80% of the female population has dieted, at least once, before reaching 18.
~About 5 million people in America have an Eating Disorder.
~About 13% of college age females has developed an Eating Disorder.
~Without dieting, only 1 in 10,000 women can naturally achieve the dimentions of a models.
~1-3% of teenage girls in the United States has developed and Eating Disorder and !0% of them will die as a result.
~In a recent study of Naval Men, 51.3% had an Eating Disorder, the majority was with anoreixa, 13.6%.
~42% of men with bulimia are bisexual or homosexual, 58% of men with anorexia are hetrosexual.
~10.3% of teenage females and 6.9% of males who have a chronic illness (excample: diabetes) have an Eating Disorder.
~ People with Eating Disorders have scored higher on IQ tests then average.
~May is the peek month of suicides.
~Anorexia has a death rate of 4-20%
Anorexia And Depression
~In the central nervous system, chemical messengers know as neurotransmitters control hormone production. The neurotransmitters serotin and norepinephrine, which function abnoramally in people who have depression, have been discovered to also have decreased levels in both acutley-ill Anorexia and Bulimia patients, and long-term recovered Anorexia patients.
~Research has shown that some patients with Anorexia may respond well to anti-depressants that affects the amount of serotonin levels in the body.
~People with anoreixia, or certain forms of depression, seem to have higher then normal levels of cortisol, a brain hormone realeased in repose to stress. It has also been shown that excess levels of critisol in both perosons with anorexia and in persons with depression are caused by a problem that occurs in, or near, the hypothalamus in the brain.
~Biochemical similarities have been discovered between people with Eating Disorders
and obsessive-compulisive disorder (OCD), and other patients with OCD frequently have abnormal eating habits.
~The hormone vasopressin is another brain chemical found to be abnormalin people with Eating Disorders and OCD. Levels of this hormone are elevated in pateients with OCD, Anorexia and Bulimia.