A European mental health services provider recently issued a statement linking stress to a rise in eating disorders. The statement was based on research conducted by The Priory Group, Europes largest provider of mental health services.

The Priorys experts believe cultural and lifestyle pressures to have the perfect body are resulting in an increase in the number of young women with anorexia nervosa and bulimia and a particular increase in the number of young men coming forward for treatment. (Source: PsychCentral)

Dr. Alex Yellowlees, medical director of the Priory Hospital in Glasgow believes younger generations are being adversely affected by intense pressures to conform to super-thin ideals portrayed in the media.

Added to this are increased pressures to achieve academically and vocationally. The combination of performance-based stressors is causing young people to become hyper-critical of themselves, with damaging and sometimes deadly results, Dr. Yellowlees said.

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