How we deal with stress can result in a number of behaviors.  In this section you can find info and tools about some of the most common methods:

• Undereating or Restricting Food
• Overeating or Compulsive Eating
• Binging and Purging
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Bad Body Thoughts and Distorted Body Image
• Procrastination and Fear of Success
• Over exercise
• Alcohol and Drug abuse and addictions

 

Some Notable Statistics

Thirty percent (30%) of women who seek treatment to lose weight have binge eating disorder. (Drugs and Therapy Perspectives)

About seventy-two percent (72%) of alcoholic women younger than 30 also have eating disorders. (Health magazine, Jan/Feb 2002)

Without treatment, up to twenty percent (20%) of people with serious eating disorders die.

• With treatment, that number falls to two to three percent (2-3%).
• With treatment, about sixty percent (60%) of people with eating disorders recover.

Approximately 1 million males have an eating disorder.

It is estimated that currently eleven percent (11%) of high school students have been diagnosed with an eating disorder. (ANAD)

Eighty percent (80%) of all children have been on a diet by the time that they have reached the fourth grade. (Time Magazine)

Fifteen percent (15%) of young women have substantially disordered eating attitudes and behaviors. (National Eating Disorder Screening Program)

2 out of 5 women and 1 out of 5 men would trade 3 to 5 years of their life to achieve their goal body weight. (Rader Programs)

Ninety-one percent (91%) of women surveyed on a college campus had attempted to control their weight through dieting, 22% dieted "often" or "always." (Kurth et. al)

Thirty-five percent (35%) of "normal dieters" progress to pathological dieting.
Of those, twenty-twenty five percent 20-25% progress to partial or full syndrome eating disorders. (Shisslak & Crago)

A Study conducted by Cornell University found that 40% of male football players surveyed engaged in some sort of disordered eating behavior. (Newsweek)

Men constitute as many as forty percent (40%) of those exhibiting Binge Eating Disorder. (DSM IV)

An estimated 1 in 3 of all dieters develop compulsive dieting attitudes and behaviors. Of these, one quarter will develop full or partial eating disorders.

In a study done on men in the navy, 51.3% had an eating disorder, anorexia (scoring 13%) being the most common one.

Forty-two percent (42%) of men with bulimia are homosexual or bisexual.

Fifty-seventy percent (50-70%) of all eating disorder sufferers also suffer from depression and/or anxiety.