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Can you still suffer from anorexia after 35?
February 29, 2008
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Anorexia is commonly associated with teenage girls who are desperately trying to achieve a perceived ideal weight by starving themselves. We rarely associate anorexia with the image of a woman in her mid 30s, 40s 50s or older. Just like so many things in life, age is nothing but a number and getting to be 30-something or 40-something doesn’t guarantee that eating disorder issues are a thing of the past.
In general, women in their 30s and beyond who suffer from eating disorders developed the problem in their teenage years and never resolved it.
That said, there are a growing number of women who didn’t suffer from anorexia as teens, but in their adult years turn to not eating as a way of maintaining their ideal weight in an attempt to regain a pre-baby body or simply as way of controlling the aging process when regular diets don’t seem to do the trick.
In some anorexia centres in the USA, patients over the age of 38 comprise of 35 per cent of their clients, which is quite alarming.
As we age, there are certain key health elements that we should simply not mess with if we want to ensure that we navigate through our 60s and beyond as well as we possibly can. Suffering from anorexia as an adult seriously compromises this process.
Suffering from anorexia in your 30s, 40s 50s or older is not a lost cause. You can get help at any stage and learn to adopt a healthier way of interacting with food.
Anorexia after 30 is an excellent read to understand the reason why so many adult women suffer from eating disorders as they age.
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Posted by Beauty Match on February 29, 2008 | Permalink
Topics: Body & Mind Health, Fit over 35 |
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March 5th, 2008 at 21:48
I think both reasons are right…I think stressful situations can really exacerbate ED’s so any life change could trigger one for the first time or send someone in recovery back into an active disorder.