Yahoo Health, June 21, 201 (HealthDay News) —
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The researchers found that almost 4 percent report binge eating, nearly 8 percent report purging, more than 70 percent diet to lose weight and 62 percent say their weight or shape adversely impacts their lives, according to the report published June 21 in the International Journal of Eating Disorders.
“Everyone — especially health-care providers — needs to erase stereotypes about who experiences disordered eating. Women well into their 50s and beyond still report struggling with weight dissatisfaction and a palette of unhealthy behaviors aimed at weight control,” said lead researcher Cynthia Bulik, director of the University of North Carolina Eating Disorders Program.
“Our ’70 is the new 50′ society may be placing additional appearance pressures on women that perpetuate disordered eating practices well into older adulthood,” she added.
These messages cause dissatisfaction and lead women toward extreme measures to achieve these “societally concocted ideals,” Bulik said.
Dr. Wilson comments:
It is no surprise that eating disorders are increasing in older women. Eating disorders now appear to part of a wider disease process triggered by exposure to two dietary elements. It is now clear that excessive fructose mainly from sucrose (sugar) and HFCS is the driving force behind insulin resistance and central obesity. When you have insulin resistance glucose has a harder time entering into your cells when you eat carbohydrates. When you have insulin resistance and consume high glycemic carbohydrates, your brain is subjected to magnified glucose spikes. Although your brain relies on glucose for its energy needs, too much glucose can disrupt normal cell function.
Over time these glucose spikes can trigger a condition called “sugar-brain” where you start to crave sweet or starchy foods and you develop subtle brain dysfunction symptoms. So far this is a minor inconvenience. But wait, it gets worse. Over time sugar-brain can transition to a serious medical condition called Carbohydrate Associated Brain syndrome or CARB syndrome. People with CARB syndrome can develop up to 22 disabling brain dysfunction symptoms.
Because the brain plays a key role in regulating fat stores, people with CARB syndrome begin to store too much fat even as they lose lean body mass from under-eating. This describes the typical person with an eating disorder.
