5 things parents should know about eating disorders
Dr. Sara Forman, director of Boston Children’s Hospital’s Outpatient Eating Disorders Program, and Dr. Tracy Richmond, director of the PREP weight management program in Adolescent Medicine, share five things parents should know about eating disorders.
Kids don’t have to be really thin to have an eating disorder.
Not everyone with an eating disorder looks like he or she has an eating disorder. The condition is often hidden in secret habits or obsessions. For example, binge eating and bulimia — or binging and purging — are common eating disorders not necessarily associated with thinness.
Eating disord...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - October 6, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Erin Horan Tags: All posts Mental health Teen health anorexia anorexia nervosa bulimia Dr. Sara Forman Dr. Tracy Richmond eating disorder Source Type: news
Vitamin D3 is Better Than Drugs For Depression
I’ve been banging the table about the healing power of vitamin D3 for years.
This fat-soluble vitamin is one of the core “primal” nutrients that kept our ancestors strong, potent, and disease free.
In previous letters, I’ve shown you dozens of studies that back up this vitamin’s power to fight cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
But vitamin D3 has a mental and emotional impact as well.
It’s an effect I’ve seen in my patients, and it helps me get them off antidepressants like ...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - September 17, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Andrew Britton Tags: Anti-Aging vitamin vitamin D3 Source Type: news
Antidepressant paroxetine study 'under-reported data on harms'
ConclusionThis study stands as a warning about how supposedly neutral scientific research papers may mislead readers by presenting findings in a certain way.The differences between the independent analysis published in the BMJ and the 2001 research paper are stark. They cannot both be right. The "authors" of the 2001 paper appear to have picked outcome measures to suit their results, in the way they present evidence of effectiveness. It has subsequently come to light that the first draft paper was not actually written by the 22 academics named on the paper, but by a "ghostwriter" paid by GSK.The study ...
Source: NHS News Feed - September 17, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical practice Medication Mental health Pregnancy/child Source Type: news
People who take antidepressants are '50% more likely to be convicted of assault'
An Oxford University study has found men and women in their late teens and early 20s are more prone to violence if they take SSRI drugs, including Prozac, Seroxat, Lustral, Cipralex and Cipramil. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Young people on antidepressants more prone to violence, study finds
Prozac and Seroxat may also make 15-24 year olds more likely to be involved in non-violent crime and to have alcohol problemsYoung people taking antidepressants such as Prozac and Seroxat are significantly more likely to commit violent crimes when they are on the medication, but taking higher doses of the drugs appears to reduce that risk, scientists said. In research published in the PLoS Medicine journal, the scientists said that while their finding of a link does not prove that such drugs cause people to be more violent, further studies should be conducted and extra warnings may be needed in future when they are prescri...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 15, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Reuters Tags: World news UK news Drugs Science Source Type: news
Study finds young people on antidepressants more prone to violence
LONDON (Reuters) - Young people taking antidepressants such as Prozac and Seroxat are significantly more likely to commit violent crimes when they are on the medication, but taking higher doses of the drugs appears to reduce that risk, scientists said on Tuesday. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Young people on antidepressants more likely to commit violent crime
Young people taking antidepressants like Prozac are at increased risk of committing violent crimes, scientists have warned (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - September 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: seroxat antidepressants karolinska institute fluoxetine prozac violent crime oxford university Source Type: news
Living with Panic Attacks
You’re sitting in your car trying to will yourself to walk into the grocery store. Anxiety washes over you. You’re cold and hot at the same time with sweat trickling down your back, hair standing on your arms. You finally get out of your car. But as you enter the store, you feel wobbly and like you’re going to pass out. The fluorescent lighting seems especially stifling. The wide aisles, oddly enough, feel claustrophobic. Your breath feels finite, like a balloon floating up to the sky, which you can’t catch. In fact, at times you feel like you’re floating along with the balloon. At times you feel like Edvard Munc...
Source: Psych Central - September 3, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Anxiety Cognitive-Behavioral Disorders General Psychotherapy Relaxation and Meditation Self-Esteem Self-Help Stress Academy of Cognitive Therapy Agoraphobia Antidepressant Anxiety Disorder Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Source Type: news
Antidepressant may help stroke patients with rehabilitation
Stephen FellerBALTIMORE, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- The antidepressant drug Prozac prolonged the amount of time after stroke that rehabilitation could restore movement and coordination in a study of mice. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - September 2, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Research in mice shows potential value of antidepressant in some stroke victims
Working with mice, researchers have added to evidence that a commonly prescribed antidepressant called fluoxetine helps stroke victims improve movement and coordination, and possibly why. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - August 31, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Research in mice shows potential value of antidepressant in some stroke victims
(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Working with mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins have added to evidence that a commonly prescribed antidepressant called fluoxetine helps stroke victims improve movement and coordination, and possibly why. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - August 31, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
The “Cuddle” Hormone Can Save Your Life
I’m delighted that John Gray, the author of international bestseller Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, will be speaking at my 2015 Palm Beach Anti-Aging Summit in October.
I’m especially pleased he’s going to be talking about the dangers of stress and how it’s on the rise for both men and women – but especially women.
I’ve been talking to my patients about the dangers of stress for years – because, if left unchecked, stress will sabotage your immune system and accelerate aging.
John even tells me that on average women are four times more stressed than men.
But the problem for men an...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - August 7, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Dr. Al Sears Tags: Brain Health hormones Source Type: news
Wagstaff & Cartmell Announces Alabama Federal Court Denies Motion...
An Alabama federal court denied Eli Lilly and Company’s motion to dismiss a suit against it by Dana Fields, whose lawsuit claims taking the pharmaceutical company’s antidepressant PROZAC during her...(PRWeb July 24, 2015)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/07/prweb12867654.htm (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - July 25, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Fluoxetine, Paroxetine Linked to Increased Birth Defect Risks
A study published July 8 in BMJ confirmed previous reports that maternal use of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors paroxetine and fluoxetine is tied to an increased risk of birth defects. (Source: AAFP News)
Source: AAFP News - July 15, 2015 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Starlings on Prozac | @GrrlScientist
Recent research suggests that the commonly prescribed psychiatric drug, Prozac, occurs at environmentally relevant concentrations that can significantly alter behaviour and physiology in wild birds A study recently published in the peer-reviewed journal, Current Biology, revealed that some psychiatric pharmaceuticals commonly used to treat depression and Parkinson’s disease significantly alter human behaviour (doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.05.021). In that report, the authors found that just one dose of a serotonin-enhancing drug increased the likelihood that healthy volunteers were more protective of themselves and others, whe...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 15, 2015 Category: Science Authors: GrrlScientist Tags: Science Drugs Neuroscience Biology Zoology Pharmacy and pharmacology Birds Wildlife Pollution Environment Farming Foraging Life and style Animals Source Type: news
