University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 10. 1901
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Group helps those with eating disorders
ByKerrieGottschalk
Kansanstaffwriter
Many young people think that being thin and fit means that they are acceptable to society, local health workers say.
Because of this notion, some people develop eating disorders to stay thin.
Eating disorders affect 15 percent to 20 percent of young women and an increasing number of men in the United States, according to the Anorexia Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders Foundation.
To deal with this problem, members of the foundation are sponsoring a support groupul at the University of Kansas for students who have problems with eating and their diets, said Angie Wozniak. Lawrence graduate student in clinical psychology.
This semester, Wozniak is the leader of the group, which meet at 7:30 Wednesday nights in Watkins Memorial Health Center.
"The group is run by individuals who have eating disorders," Wozniak said. "They come for support, and they direct the format of the group."
She said the group helps people identify an eating disorder, offers a safe place where people can admit that they have an eating problem and provides support and encouragement to people recovering from eating disorders.
Three people came to the first meeting of the semester on Wednesday, she said
Chapman, dietitian at Watkins,
said it was difficult to determine how
many people have eating disorders
because there is a wide range of prob-
Eating disorders range from anorexia, or self-starvation, to bulimia, which involves eating large amounts of food and then purging.
lemms that can be considered eating disorders.
There are other disorders such as overeating, overexercising and vomiting after eating a normal-sized meal, Chamman said.
Despite the range of the disorders, people who suffer from eating problems share many of the same feelings such as shame, depression, anxiety and isolation, she said.
antisocialism, and "Any eating disorder is an obsession about food, weight, dieting and appearance," said Ann Gabrick, program director of the eating disorders unit at Menorah Medical Center in Kansas City. Mo. Gabrick has helped treat many KU students who had eat-
Do I have a problem?
If you answer yes to four or more of the following questions, it is likely that you are obsessive about food and should seek some kind of help.
- I constantly think about eating, weight and body size.
- go on eating binges and can't stop eating until I feel sick
- I constantly think about eating, weigh*
* I am terrified about being overweight*
- spend a lot of time day dreaming about
• weigh in several times each day
- I weight my entire three times a day.
* exercise too much or get very rigid about my exercise plan.
- have taken laxatives or forced myself to vomit after eating.
- believe that being in control of food shows other people that I can control myself
- I feel extremely guilty after eating.
• Because of my weight and appearance, I'm more upright than I'd like to be.
- because of my weight and appearance, I'm more upright than I'd like to be around people who I find sexually attractive.
around people who find sexual attractive
Roman American College Health Association
Melissa Unterberg/KANSAN
ing disorders.
Gabrick and Chapman both said that although a support group could be helpful, anyone with a disorder should seek medical help from a physician who is aware of the disorder.
Both agreed that individual therapy
usually was needed to overcome distorted thinking about food and self-image.
"The group is not a therapy group." Wozniak said. "It is really for members to encourage and support one another."
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