Higher calorie diets increase weight gain, shorten hospital stays for teens with anorexia

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Higher calorie diets produce twice the rate of weight gain compared to the lower calorie diets that currently are recommended for adolescents hospitalized with anorexia nervosa.
SOURCE: Eating Disorder Research News — ScienceDaily – Read entire story here.

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I hear people say that you can be anorexic without being ‘thin’. I don’t see how that’s possible but I want to understand. Can you help me with that?

To meet DSM-5 criteria for anorexia you have to have a “significantly low body weight.” In previous versions of the DSM, that was marked at 85{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d} or less of what is normal for your height, age, and development, but in the current version there is no specific number. So that is how anorexia is equated with thinness. However, you can meet all other criteria of anorexia except that one and still be diagnosed with an eating disorder, typically Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (currently known as Feeding or Eating Disorders Not Elsewhere Classified). EDNOS (or OSFED) is typically diagnosed when the individual clearly has eating patterns and disturbances that warrant clinical attention, but they may not meet every single criteria of Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, or