Pregnancy May Increase Vulnerablity to Eating Disorders
September 12, 2007 by kate baggott
Filed under Breastfeeding, Mental Health, Nutrition
Pregnancy and breastfeeding make women hungry. That is only natural and necessary and it is absolutely essential that women feed their hunger during these times. We do, though, have to watch out for behaviors that aren’t feeding physical hunger, but something else.
Pregnancy may make women more vulnerable to binge eating disorder. Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health conducted a long-term study of 100,000 pregnant Norwegian women. They saw an increase in binge eating disorders beginning during pregnancy.
