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Subject: Re: COE and anorexia (chocolate) Author: Chocolate [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 21:46:42 07/10/05 Sun In reply to: bittersweet 's message, "COE and anorexia (chocolate)" on 16:51:03 07/10/05 Sun Yes, You see that 30% of the children who are overweight are overweight because of emotional problems (the rest just gets the wrong food or has a disease or fysical problel of some kind) From these 30% 70% will develope an ED in puberty. Basically this means that 21% of the children that are overweight at age 8 will develope an ED of some kind in some degree later in life. Mostly these kids suffer from COE. I need to say these are dutch statistics, so there could be a slight difference for other countries. The leading theory behind this is that these kids learn young in life that emotions and eating are linked in an extreme degree. They already have emotional problems as a kid and later in life when problems come they will express this stress in terms of eating behavior, where other adolescents could express this stress in other ways (violent behavior, drugs etc.) For these kids the link between stress and eating is already established and will not easily fade. The stress these children suffer from is mostly connected with (in this order of magnitude) sexual abuse, emotional abuse, war trauma physical abuse, death of a family member, trauma of violent incident not family related, divorce of parent. Ofcouse there could be a milion other causes but these are statistically the most listed. Some kids develope this without an directly obvious reason as well, thoughts are now that it might be genetic or learned behavior of parents. (parents with an ED have a 50% higher chance of having kids who develope an ED later). Hope this helps Choco [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Re: COE and anorexia (chocolate) bittersweet 23:59:34 07/11/05 Mon Re: COE and anorexia (chocolate) -- Chocolate, 00:30:22 07/12/05 Tue