Eating Disorder Research

David Coulthard, the Formula One star, has gone public about his experience with the eating disorder bulimia. He revealed about how he started having bulimia in his teens when he was trying to break into racing. He felt self conscious as he was tall at 6ft and wanted to look slim. In his autobiography, he revealed that “I stopped eating fattening food and, before I knew what had happened, I was bulimic." It is rare to have a sports athlete publicly reveal about any eating disorder behavior. Hopefully, more sports athletes can come forward to tell their battles with eating disorders. It is time for ordinary fans, like us, to get to know about the eating disorder secrets behind the glamor and the great looks. Source of Story

An eating disorder treatment breakthrough can be found in tyrosine, as revealed by an initial study. Tyrosine is an amino acid found in protein-rich foods such as meat, fish, dairy foods, eggs and beans. It is used in the brain to make neurotransmitters, messenger chemicals that carry signals from one nerve cell to another, including those linked to depression. A recent study showed that it is capable of stopping anorexia patients from starving themselves. This nutrient has been found to help improve the mental health of eating disorder sufferers. If this is the case, this research finding can translate to a treatment breakthrough for eating disorders. Anorexia patients have been found to be deficient in this important nutrient because of their depleted food intake. You can read the research here This is certainly a significant breakthrough for eating disorder treatment. Still, it does not address the cause of this disorder since the method of treatment does not have the effect of altering body image perceptions of the sufferers. Nothing was also mentioned about how much tyrosine an eating disorder patient should consume. More research is definitely needed.