High achieving, competitive people who base their self-worth on performance excellence and winning seem to be at higher risk of developing eating disorders than are mellow couch potatoes.
This section of the ANRED Web site contains the following pages:
|
|
- Male and female athletes: different risk
factors
|
- Wrestlers and quick weight loss: dangerous
practices
|
- Differences between female athletes and
non-athletes with anorexia nervosa
|
- Differences between female athletes and
non-athletes with bulimia nervosa
|
- Obligatory exercise is sometimes called
compulsive exercise or anorexia athletica
|
- Athletes and people preoccupied with fitness
can develop this obsessive compulsion
|
- A challenge that puts coaches and trainers
in a difficult situation
|
- Background and practical tips on how to proceed
|
|
|
- The coach's place on the treatment team
|
- Managing the athlete's participation in training and competition
|
|
|
Please Note: ANRED information is not a substitute for medical or psychological evaluation and treatment. For help with the physical and emotional problems associated with eating disorders, talk to your physician and a mental health professional.
|
Page updated April 28, 2008
ANRED
Anorexia Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders, Inc.
© 2005. All rights reserved.
