KINESIOL 4S03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Eating Attitudes Test, Bulimia Nervosa, Eating Disorder
31 Jan 2017
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Use of yoga in outpatient eating disorder treatment: a pilot study. Those affected will often have co-morbid psychiatric disorders, including depressive symptoms and anxiety disorders. Will try to control it with hyper exercise. Yoga is a practice designed to create a sense of well-being, sensations con dence, ef ciency, create attentiveness and create an optimistic outlook. In addition, yoga improves body"s sense of embodiment and introception. A lack of introspective awareness is key in bulimia and anorexia and yoga helps to improve this: studies on yoga in the eating disorder population have been few and primarily on adults. symptoms. It has been seen to decrease general eating disorder. Shown to improve depression and anxiety in adults. In adolescent studies before, they tried to see the effect of yoga on quality of life, health outcomes, and adherence in teens with asthma and hemophilia.
