These men are also more likely to report problems in their marriage and feel dissatisfied with life in general, researchers report in the April issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry. Eating disorders such as anorexia, forced starvation, and bulimia, overeating then purging, by either exercising excessively and vomiting, or by fasting, affect men at sharply higher levels than previously thought, according to a new study in the American Journal of Psychiatry. It estimates two out of every 100 men have an eating disorder, compared to about five out of every 100 women. A Weightly Issue Men also fall victim to eating disorders To outsiders, Steve Evans is a confident, gregarious guy with a habit of gaining and losing a lot of weight. One Man's Battle In a refreshingly honest disclosure drawn from the book Making Weight, co-author Dr. Thomas Holbrook, a specialist in eating disorders among men, reflects on his own distressing slide into anorexia, and his ultimate recovery.
Food is the symptom for everything.
By using food or weight to solve problems, it gives a feeling of control and empowerment. Thomas Shiltz, psychotherapist and training specialist at Rogers Memorial Hospital Men with eating disorders face unique challenges Jason DeMaio was a chubby kid. By age 10, he weighed 255 pounds and was constantly teased by his classmates and scolded by his parents. He often felt like an outsider, and by age 12 he'd turned to drugs to relieve his frustrations. But in 1995, when he was 18, everything changed.