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Teen Anorexia: A Rising Trend In Metros of India

@ India Current Affairs
Prof.K.Nageshwar, Chief Editor & K.Srilaxmi, Executive Editor

Obsession with physical appearance on rise amongst college going crowd…

Youngsters in the age group of 12-25 years are using diet pills, fat burners, fasting, resorting to self-induced vomiting etc. in order to stay slim and look attractive. They are deeply influenced by modern lifestyles together with ubiquitous show of a perfect 10 figure and airbrushed faces in advertisements & pictures of ramp models, film/sports personalities etc. in newspapers, magazines etc, says ASSOCHAM study. Kids as young as 12 years old are resorting to severe dieting, consuming fat burners and protein shakes thereby developing serious eating disorders, according to the Chamber study..finish reading article

Ban on ‘glamorising’ eating disorders

The Times of India, May 18, 2010, 12.00am IST

Psychiatrists are urging a ban be put on the ‘damaging portrayal’ of eating disorders in advertisements and various other publications… finish article

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Anorexia Takes Hold in India

BBC News – Jill McGivering , BBC Asia analyst

Most people in India struggle to get enough to eat – one estimate is that 60% of India’s women are clinically malnourished.

But psychiatrists in urban areas are reporting cases of anorexia nervosa, the so-called slimming disease that can cause sufferers to starve themselves to death… finish reading article

Eating disorder no longer rare

By Ramya Kannan @ The Hindu – Online edition of India’s National Newspaper

CHENNAI: Anorexia and bulimia are not a couple of continents away. These eating disorders, a reason for great anxiety in the West are very much present in India, too.

Lakshmi Vijayakumar, psychiatrist, says “Ten years ago, I would have said they were not common, but we are seeing cases these days. Recently, I did a review for the WHO on common mental disorders among adolescents. There is a distinct rise in eating disorders in non-western nations, especially in Africa and Asia.” In Asia, the rise has been more rapid than in Africa, she adds…finish reading article

Bulimic disorders and sociocentric values in north India

By D. Bhugra, K. Bhui and K. R. Gupta Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol (2000) 35: 86-93

Abstract Background: Previous studies have shown low rates of eating disorders in some developing countries. We set out to investigate the prevalence of bulimia in an all-female college population in north India and relate it to sociocentrism of the culture. Methods: A total of 504 students in an all-girls private college in an industrial town in north India completed the Hindi translation of the Bulimia Investigatory Test, Edinburgh (BITE). A random sample of 50 students, irrespective of their scores, were interviewed using the DSM-III-R interview for eating disorders; they were also asked about quali-tative aspects of their relationship with the family and their own views of their identity… finish reading study

Emergence of Eating Disorders in India. Study of Eating Distress Syndrome and Development of a Screening Questionnaire

By T.N. Srinivasan, T.R. Suresh, Vasantha Jayaram

This paper describes the development of a 15 item questionnaire for use in populations with very low or nil prevalence of major disorders of eating but where minor forms do occur. One such minor disorder, Eating Distress Syndrome, described by the authors in an earlier study, is replicated here and its associated variables are studied…finish reading abstract