This week, February 22nd-27th, is the National Eating Disorders Awareness week. The media often glamorises anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders, as super thin models and celebrities sell magazines, but the truth is that anorexia has the highest mortality rate for any psychiatric condition.
Eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating and compulsive eating [...]
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Eating Disorders Awareness Week starts today.
Posted: Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Omega 3 fats may prevent onset of schizophrenia
Posted: Monday, February 8th, 2010
A study published in this month’s Archives of General Psychiatry has found that fish oil may at least delay, but probably prevent, the onset of schizophrenia. Dr Paul Amminger and his colleagues from the University of Australia carried out a randomised, double blind, controlled study with 81 patients between the ages of 13-25 years. They found [...]