Blog Entries tagged 'eating disorders'

CBT can help 80% of people suffering from eating disorders.

editor@uticopa.com — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Adam Bremelow, the health correspondent for BBC, have said in this morning's news program on Radio 4 that the new research from Oxford has given a ‘Pretty promising prospect for a wide array of people suffering from eating disorders such as bulimia, anorexia, binge eating.'

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a form of a therapy that challenges people's behaviour by getting them to reassess their thoughts and assumptions. The treatment usually takes the form of approximatel [...]

Pop Star Denies Eating Disorder

editor@uticopa.com — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Sarah Harding, singer with the pop group Girls Aloud, has spoken out this week against rumours that she is suffering from an eating disorder. The rumours were triggered by photographs of the singer's slim frame, but Harding insists that she "eats like a horse".

This is just the latest in a long line of rumours - some true, some false - about women in the public eye having eating disorders. Perhaps most famously, and certainly most tragically, was the case of singer Karen C [...]