The medical journal The Lancet has just reported evidence about the treatment of eating disorders that mainly affect young women. The researchers look at anorexia nervosa, bulimia and what are called atypical eating disorders. Although, as the good doctors point out, that category contains more than half the cases.
They demonstrate that the existing scheme for classifying eating disorders is "unsatisfactory and anomalous". There ought to be more research into the causes, development and treatment of the diseases. They do say that a specific form of cognitive behaviour therapy seems effective in treating bulimia, but point out that "few patients seem to receive it".
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