Eating Disorders

Disordered eating, for the purposes of the experiences I'm gathering could vary from an official medical diagnosis by a doctor to cases where a man privately identifies with destructive or damaging behaviours around food.

I do not have a fixed idea on what form these may take or the severity of the habits or behaviour but there are some ideas below.

The following are not exhaustive, they simply provide some examples of experiences I'm interested in knowing about:

• Compulsive feelings or behaviours around certain foods;
• bingeing;
• habitual controlling behaviours with food, such as constant weighing and measuring of foodstuffs to be consumed;
• fasting or self-imposed starvation;
• vomiting to get rid of unwanted food;
• using laxatives to rid the body of excess food;
• compulsive or excessive exercise;
• routine over- or under-eating over sustained periods.

You can find out more about eating disorders generally by visiting the Beat website.

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You may want to check my annotated bibliography for some ideas of studies on eating disorders and men carried out over the last 3-4 years.