Meditate and Heal From Anorexia or Bulimia
For young people with an eating disorder such as bulimia or anorexia nervosa, yoga may provide more than a moment of relaxation or meditation.
A study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health showed that symptoms of eating disorders decreased more in patients who also carry a treatment, practice yoga.
Rain Carei researcher, one of the four authors of the article “Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial of Yoga in the Treatment of Eating Disorders”, says that young people who practiced yoga for eight weeks at the end had less concern about the food, which means that worked best.
“Boys with eating disorders are worried about the food and eating all the time until the point where it becomes debilitating, do not stop the bed, do not go to school and do nothing.
“They were also less concerned with how he saw his body,” says Carei in a telephone interview from Gig Harbor, Washington.
The study also involving Amber L. Fyfe-Johnson, Cora C. Breuner and Margaret A. Brown, included 50 women and 4 men aged between 11 and 21 years of age. They were very sick, almost half had been hospitalized for her eating disorder, and were treated in an outpatient clinic of Seattle Children’s Hospital.
Of this group, randomly, half of the patients received for eight weeks, the standard medical care, while the remaining number, in addition to therapy, attended two yoga sessions per week.
The results were obtained after one month of follow-up that included the examination for Eating Disorders (EDE, for its acronym in English), Body Mass Index (BMI), Beck Depression Inventory scales and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and Food Preoccupation questionnaire.