A former contestant on the hit weight loss show "The Biggest Loser" is claiming that the show's unhealthy practices led her to develop a life-threatening eating disorder.
Some Web sites offer support and encouragement for eating disorders.
Kai Hibbard, 31, was one of the final four contestants on NBC's "The Biggest Loser" in 2006, when the show was in its third season. While Hibbard appeared to be a poster child for the show, losing 118 pounds in just 12 weeks, she now says that she nearly died. "I had no idea I had a problem," Hibbard told ABCNews.com . "When you spend four months surrounded by people who are all doing this to themselves, even if intellectually it seems wrong, you don't realize. You just think if they're doing it, I'm doing it." And what she was doing was trying a number of techniques to shed weight at an alarming rate -- from fasting from dressing head to toe in multiple layers of clothing and working out in 100-degree temperatures. Read More
CBT and ACT Treatment Results in Eating Disorders - Review of Eating Disorders News.com broadcast by Vicki Berkus, MD, PhD, CEDS, iaedp Board of Directors Education Chair
A study comparing CBT with ACT showed the CBT has limited success with college age women with eating disorders but ACT showed moderate success, thereby endorsing ACT as the therapy of choice.
Incontinence in anorexic adolescents included 17% had night incontinence, 62.7% had day and night urinary incontinence and 57% had urgency incontinence. All resolved with weight restoration. More studies are needed to determine the cause.
Eight males and eight females were shown pictures of high caloric foods while undergoing brain scans. Females had greater responses in the dorsal and postlateral periventricular areas and insula. Males had increased flow to the amydala.
67 bulimic patients were studies to identify the effects of mood status and lymphocyte counts. Results showed that patients with increased anxiety and anger had lowered lymphocyte counts. The study showed that affect can affect immunological processes.
in the News June 28, 2010
Loser's Kai Hibbard Says Show Triggered Eating Disorder
Hit TV Show
By EMILY FRIEDMAN
Loser" is claiming that the show's unhealthy practices led her to
develop a life-threatening eating disorder.
offer support and encouragement for eating disorders.
was one of the final four contestants on NBC's "The Biggest Loser" in
2006, when the show was in its third season. While Hibbard appeared to
be a poster child for the show, losing 118 pounds in just 12 weeks, she
now says that she nearly died.
"I
had no idea I had a problem," Hibbard told ABCNews.com . "When you spend
four months surrounded by people who are all doing this to themselves,
even if intellectually it seems wrong, you don't realize. You just think
if they're doing it, I'm doing it."
And what she was doing was trying a number of techniques to
shed weight at an alarming rate -- from fasting from dressing head to
toe in multiple layers of clothing and working out in 100-degree
temperatures. Read More
Eating Disorders
Review of Eating Disorders News.com
broadcast by Vicki Berkus, MD, PhD, CEDS, iaedp Board of Directors
Education Chair
showed the CBT has limited success with college age women with eating
disorders but ACT showed moderate success, thereby endorsing ACT as the
therapy of choice.
Incontinence in anorexic adolescents included
17% had night incontinence, 62.7% had day and night urinary
incontinence and 57% had urgency incontinence. All resolved with weight
restoration. More studies are needed to determine the cause.
Eight
males and eight females were shown pictures of high caloric foods while
undergoing brain scans. Females had greater responses in the dorsal and
postlateral periventricular areas and insula. Males had increased flow
to the amydala.
67 bulimic patients were studies to identify the
effects of mood status and lymphocyte counts. Results showed that
patients with increased anxiety and anger had lowered lymphocyte counts.
The study showed that affect can affect immunological processes.
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