Male Eating Disorders

[the crispy badger]

Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout

Overactive motabolism, it's great (in most cases).

I can eat all the cookies I want, plus drink lots of beer. The matobolism breaks down the alcohol so I can keep drinking at a steady pace. However I recently discovered after the Joel Plaskett Emergency concert last Monday that I now wake up with a splitting headache after a couple of pitchers of beer. Stupid getting old!

thats ok...when I drink beer at a certain Moncton bar i immediatly throw up after two beer no matter how much i've ate or drank! I think it's the air or the skanks in there.

[Flamesguy_SJ]

Prader-Willi Syndrome

An interesting eating disorder that was featured on CSI a season or two ago...I couldnt imagine what it would be like to go through.

[Azure]

Originally Posted by rubecube

It's weird. I was a huskier kid in high school and I've lost damn near 40 pounds since I graduated, but everyone else I seem to run into has put on weight.

Me and you alike....

[Metro Gnome]

Only a small portion of people afflicted with eating disorders are male. I think the prevalence is something like 10X greater in women for both Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa as compared to men. So if 5/1000 females has anorexia, the prevalence in men to tends to be 5 in 10,000. Gay males tend to be "overrepresented" in any sample of males suffering from eating disorders as well.

Im not sure anyone really knows why. Women tend to suffer from anxiety disorders in general more than men, but Im not sure anyone has pinned down the exact reasons why. There's some argument for socialization and social factors while others point to genetic and biological pre-disposition. Likely it's a mix of the two...

[Maritime Q-Scout]

Originally Posted by the crispy badger

thats ok...when I drink beer at a certain Moncton bar i immediatly throw up after two beer no matter how much i've ate or drank! I think it's the air or the skanks in there.

is it the Cosmo?

there's a lamp post outside the Cosmo that has been dubbed "the Greatest spot in Moncton" as my handle on the Q boards is "the Greatest"

I love that place, I had a few before going there the first time. I loved how the top floor spun

[NuclearFart]

Originally Posted by Flamesguy_SJ

Prader-Willi Syndrome

An interesting eating disorder that was featured on CSI a season or two ago...I couldnt imagine what it would be like to go through.

LOL good old Prader-Willi...that disease is frequently the butt of all med student jokes. Not only do these poor dudes eat themselves out of house and home (the parents often have to install padlocks on the fridge because they can't control themselves), but they are "blessed" with a micropenis.

And I can sympathize with the skinny people here. Just the other day, an anorexic patient called me skinny....
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