en-us Copyright 2008 - All Rights Reserved. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:58:05 GMT 15 By Emily Torres

Recently, a new eating disorder was announced. Purging Disorder resembles that of bulimia nervosa; however, this disorder is different. According to an article published in ScienceDaily magazine, this disorder deals with eating and then purging to compensate for the calories, like bulimia nervosa. What sets this sickness apart from bulimia are the portions that people diagnosed with the disorder eat. In Purging Disorder, women and men eat regular meals or small meals then, purge or throw it up. “Purging disorder is new in the sense that it has not been offi cially recognized as a unique condition in the classifi cation of eating disorders,” said Pamela Keel in the ScienceDaily article, associate professor of psychology in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, “but it’s not a new problem. Women were struggling with purging disorder long before we began studying it.” A study from the University of Iowa, conducted by Keel, show that women and men share similar characteristics with those who suffer from bulimia: They are depressed, feel anxious, and have a negative outlook towards their bodily image. “Right now there are no evidence-based treatments for purging disorder,” said Keel in the article. “It would be a disservice to women with purging disorder to assume that treatments that work for bulimia nervosa will work for purging disorder, given the differences we found between the syndromes. Additional research is crucial for advancing our understanding of purging disorder.” ]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:05:00 GMT