Comments on: Science of Eating Disorders

Science of Eating Disorders

hermitosis — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:05:28 -0800

Science of Eating Disorders is a blog is dedicated to making peer-reviewed eating disorder research more accessible to the public.

By: Sidhedevil

Sidhedevil — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:01:14 -0800

Thanks, hermitosis! That looks like a useful resource.

By: rmhsinc

rmhsinc — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:24:28 -0800

Appeciated

By: rr

rr — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:26:00 -0800

By: Sidhedevil

Sidhedevil — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:37:38 -0800

we know eating disorders are caused by unrealistic and unachievable societal expectations "We know" no such thing. How is binge eating disorder, for instance, caused by whatever you're referring to?

By: luckynerd

luckynerd — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:12:01 -0800

Given that we know eating disorders are caused by unrealistic and unachievable societal expectations, this blog seems like a lot of typical patriarchal victim blaming through the guise of science and medicalization. Really? Gee, and all this time I thought my anorexia (in remission for a few years, yay!) had to do with attempting to control something in my life when things were stressful and/or chaotic.

By: gaspode

gaspode — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:47:52 -0800

Eating disorders as a group also refers to overeating disorders. I haven't really seen an unrealistic societal expectation towards overeating, for the most part. (Yes, apart from very few cultures which prize obesity in their marriage-aged women). Certainly, as with many (most? all?) mental disorders there is a biology/environment interaction in the disease etiology. That's not victim blaming though. What a strange thing to say. I index a lot of eating disorders research, given that I tend to work at the intersection of endocrinology, neuroscience and psychology. There's a ton of stuff out there on the brain reward system and disordered eating. It's fascinating, and super scary.

By: hepta

hepta — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:23:34 -0800

rr has got to be joking.

By: subbes

subbes — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 19:12:41 -0800

Oh my: Diabulimia is a thing. I thought it was just a joke my ED-ed chums were playing on outsiders.

By: threeants

threeants — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:36:47 -0800

Really neat. Is "aggregator of new articles from the literature on topic X" an established type of website? I'd love to see something like this for a range of other topics.

By: hermitosis

hermitosis — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:03:19 -0800

Last night I received a message from the blog's creator:

"Thanks for linking the Science of Eating Disorders blog on metafilter! I don't have an account on it, but I was just browsing through the comments and someone asked: "Is 'aggregator of new articles from the literature on topic X' an established type of website? I'd love to see something like this for a range of other topics." If you want to reply, or are curious yourself. The answer is yes. Good aggregators are: www.researchblogging.org (my personal preference) and www.scienceseeker.org They are essentially the same and most bloggers who blog about peer-reviewed literature are registered with both sites (I am, anyway)."

By: threeants

threeants — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 16:43:51 -0800

Thanks, hermitosis / blog creator!