In 1999 I took part in a conference where Arnold Anderson suggested a treatment model for men with eating disorders. At the same conference commented Craig Johnson, Ph.D. the results of his research on eating disorders in male and female athletes. The knowledge about eating disorders, weight and body image problems for men is increasing. There is even a book recently published by Gurze, entitled “Making Weight: Healing Men’s Conflicts with Food, Weight and Shape” written by Andersen, Holbrook and Cohn.
Johnson, et al (1999) studied 1.445 athletes / students from 11 different schools. He found that 13.02% of the men one or more times per week had a binge eating. 2.04% of the men gave to either weekly, laxativa used, or diuretics. He also found that male football players were dissatisfied with their bodies than (field) runners, or gymmers.
Even in non-athletes, shows that just over 2% of male adolescents have eating disorders. Approximately 1 in ten to 1 in six people who suffer from eating disorders are men.
With young men there is also a social pressure to “lean and strong” to be just as well in women. And yet there are some significant differences between men and women with an eating disorder.
Men are prone to certain diseases: