Eating disorders in men
Although eating disorders are much more common in women there is growing evidence that men also suffer from these problems. Experts suggest that about 10% of people with eating disorders are men. The two main problems, anorexia nervosa and bulimia, can occur in men. Several risk factors have been identified and it seems it is more likely to occur in four groups of men:
Dieting: in both men and women dieting may precipitate some eating disorders
Occupations which encourage a weight class or lean body image e.g. body builders and jockeys .
Homosexuality: several studies suggest it is more common in homosexual men. The reason is not clear.
Previous Obesity: men who have been obese seem more likely to develop eating disorders.
In general these disorders are very similar in men and women. There are two areas where there is a significant distinction Men tend to develop bulimia a little older than women and more men have been obese in the past.
The best treatment for eating problems of this type in men is not clear at this time. However it is important to recognize that the problem does occur and provide emotional and psychological support for them. Cosmetic plastic surgery in men with an eating disorder is not recommended.
As with women, men's weight is culturally related. Most men prefer to be slightly overweight because they do not want to look wimpy. Many men worry they look puny and so would rather be more fat and this may be a health risk.
Women usually view their ideal weight as too little and men as too much. Even though overweight men are unhappy about being fat they often would often rather be too fat than too thin.
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Elephantine beauties weigh-in for conservation
A 25-year-old nurse weighing 95 kilograms has been crowned Thailand's Jumbo Queen 2003, in a popular annual beauty pageant highlighting the plight of Thai elephants. The light-hearted, heavyweight contest saw Nongnuch Paynguleaom win out over 19 other bulging beauties to claim her crown, which is bestowed on the contestant who best exhibits the characteristics of an elephant. The women strutted their substantial stuff - dancing and singing or lip-synching pop tunes and traditional Thai ballads - in front of more than 1,000 spectators.The pageant, now in its seventh year, is held at the Samphran Elephant Ground and Zoo for the pageant.The hefty nurse-turned beauty queen earned 50,000 baht ($US1,162) in first-place prize money for her efforts. Winners were named in several categories, including heaviest Miss WTO (Weight Top Over), won by Supaporn Dongkhair, 23, who tipped the scales at 159 kilograms.
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Worth The Weight
Claire Sweeney has lost a stone in just six weeks - and she hasn't even had liposuction. Neither has she lost any limbs or had a boob reduction.
Claire has lost the weight by an old-fashioned combination of exercise and healthy eating. And we at Anorak are happy to join with the Mirror in raising a glass of skimmed milk to salute her achievement as the 32-year-old actress displays her newly toned curves in a skimpy bikini.The Mirror publishes before and after shots of the former Brookside star and it is clear that she has shed several pounds.However, more worrying is the fact that she appears to have turned a strange yellowy-orange colour into the bargain.This might have something to do with the number of oranges she has eaten as part of her diet or it may be early signs of jaundice.
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Puny fear drives men to flab
Most men prefer to be slightly overweight because they are worried about looking wimpy, according to a new study by Edinburgh scientists. Fears of looking "puny" and "scrawny" mean men would rather carry a bit of flab , psychologists say. But while many men believe they look well-built, doctors warn they are overweight and risking their health. The researchers at Queen Margaret University College found that men worry as much as women about achieving the "body beautiful" image portrayed by celebrities. But the two sexes hold very different views on what doctors regard as their ideal body weight. While women tend to view their "ideal weight" as too fat, men’s desire to appear muscular means they see their "ideal weight" as too thin. The researchers found men were so concerned about looking weedy they even failed to diet strictly enough for fear of losing "too much" weight. The findings sparked concern that men’s skewed body image puts them at greater risk of serious health problems.
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Hazards: Avoiding More Than Sunburn
Using sunscreen daily reduces the risk of skin lesions that are associated with skin cancer, Australian researchers have found. Writing in this month's issue of The Archives of Dermatology, the researchers said that regular, liberal use of sunscreen "can play a strong role in minimizing" the development of the lesions, known as solar keratoses. Skin cancer is 3 to 12 times more likely to occur in the presence of the lesions.The study, led by Dr. Steven Darlington of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, followed more than 1,600 people, ages 25 to 74, over four years. Skin cancer is of extra concern in subtropical climates like Queensland's. Participants in the study were divided into different groups, with some asked to apply sunscreen daily on all exposed areas of skin, including on the head, and others asked to use it as they ordinarily would. (Some people were also asked to take daily doses of the supplement beta carotene, but the study found it had no effect on the incidence of lesions.) Although lesions increased in all the groups over the course of the study, after two years there were 24 percent fewer in the group that used sunscreen daily. That amounted to about one fewer lesion per person, the researchers said. People least likely to have lesions at the start of the study — the younger participants, and those with dark skin — derived greater benefit from applying sunscreen daily, the study found.
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Woman gives nose, breast jobs in cars
Beauty clinics may have supplied clients
A former nurse assistant was arrested yesterday and charged with providing ``collagen injections'' to customers without a medical licence, police said
Uenjit Pothongnark, 43, was nabbed while administering a collagen injection to a policewoman in a borrowed Toyota Sports Rider, her mobile cosmetic clinic, near Central department store in Lat Phrao.
The officer from the Crime Suppression Division posed as a customer seeking a nose job.
Seized from the vehicle was a bottle of substance thought to be collagen, anti-inflammation pills and unidentified drugs.
The arrest was made following a complaint from Udomdej Rattanasathien, secretary to the public health minister, and health officials.
Mrs Uenjit apparently entered an arrangement with beauty salons which supplied her with customers in exchange for commission fees.
Collagen injections were apparently carried out in the mobile clinic or beauty salons. The suspect charged 3,000-4,000 baht for nose jobs.
``It is cheaper than any beauty clinic, but it's very harmful. And as far as we know, she isn't a doctor, not even a nurse. She is an ex-nurse assistant,'' said Mr Udomdej.
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Trial Begins in Woman's Cosmetic Surgery Death, pumping party with industrial grade silicone goes wrong
Jury selection begins today in Fort Lauderdale for the trial of two people charged in the 2001 death of a woman who was undergoing cut-rate cosmetic surgery. Vera Lawrence died March 20th, 2001, after attending an illegal "pumping party" at a Miramar apartment. She wanted to enlarge her buttocks. Lawrence was one of many South Floridians who risk being injected with industrial grade silicone in exchange for more affordable cosmetic procedures performed in motel rooms and private homes. While criminal trials of the practitioners are rare, experts say the pumping parties are very popular. Prosecutors say suspects Mark Hawkins and Donnie Hendrix lived in Greenville, South Carolina. They allegedly ran a traveling, cut-rate "body-sculpting" business that catered to transgender people and straight women seeking to enhance their bodies.
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Modern Primitives Meet Gene Therapy
Humans have always practiced body modification with available tools. Genetic technologies will join the list, and there's no reason why they shouldn't. Few probably cared. But this month, Illinois citizens came closer to losing an important right.
In early April, the Illinois House passed a bill restricting tongue splitting, the lengthwise cutting of the tongue to create a snakelike fork. Under the bill, which the state Senate must pass, only doctors and dentists could cut tongues. Few would do so for nonmedical reasons, essentially making the free modification of tongues illegal.
To some, the right to a forked tongue is far less important than, say, the right to bear arms (which most assuredly leads to far more death and disfigurement). And people who get squeamish around a simple piercing will likely applaud the bill, happy to keep more "freaks" off the street. But defenders of liberty take note: Body modification isn't freaky at all. Rather, it has existed for thousands of years, expressed in different forms in different cultures.
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Men can have bigger
Frank (not his real name) is talking from New York City (not his real home) about his chest (not his real muscles). 
When Frank was a kid, he felt skinny, he didn’t think his chest was big enough. Even after four years of swimming for his university, it wasn’t big enough. Even after lifting weights for 20 years, it wasn’t big enough. 
“I got compliments on my arms, legs, back, everything but the chest,” said the 1.75m, 82kg investment broker. That changed about nine months ago, when the 49-year-old Los Angeles resident decided to get pectoral implants. It turns out the pair of palm-size solid silicone discs were enough. 
“I’m like a peacock strutting his feathers,” said Frank, who wanted to remain anonymous because friends don’t know he had the procedure. “I feel more positive about myself than ever and I’m not selfconscious anymore about wearing an open shirt. I’ve got nice cuts. I like the way I look.” Y
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Mysteries of beauty
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing. It is terrible because it has not been fathomed.
Fyodor Dostoevsky Skin deep or not, the world and its inhabitants have become unconditional slaves to beauty. Why else would 97 per cent of women express dissatisfaction with their bodies; 69 per cent with their faces. Similar figures apply to males. An accident of nature, a rare occurrence, beauty has no rhyme or reason. While it can be genetically explained, it is never quite wholly understood. Revered, cherished and sought after, beauty has us reeling and kneeling at its feet, and rightly so. "It is a gift of God," said Aristotle. Many believe it is a form of genius. "It is higher indeed than genius" writes Oscar Wilde "because it stands no explanation." Intangible, indescribable, unintelligible, it speaks to our senses, whispering its mysteries, filling us with delight and wonder. It is met with an overwhelming measure of approval and acceptance that is great and glorious and able to arrest and retain the attention of the masses. Why? The true mysteries of the world are the visible not the invisible. Beauty is the wonder of wonders.
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Read my lips
Beware if you're painting your lips pink -- you may be coming across as unfriendly and difficult.
That's according to psychologist Dr. Michael Cunningham, professor at the University of Louisville who has done in-depth studies on physical attractiveness.
He can read features like no other, and says lips send messages even when they're not moving.
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A shot of youth, Millions opting for noninvasive wrinkle treatments
Interior designer Jane Hardy hustles into her doctor's office and climbs onto a treatment table, wearing high heels and a black skirt and blouse. Her doctor explains the procedure, a newly approved face-lift, and begins.
At 3:15 p.m., Hardy is back at work. The 46-year-old Englewood resident has just undergone Thermage, a treatment that promises to take years off the face, and no one can tell.
"I was surprised at how easy it was," Hardy said afterward. "I looked perfectly fine." Hardy is one of many patients participating in a lift-and-conceal lunchtime trend. As technology advances, cosmetic options are growing and treatment times are shrinking. In less time than most restaurant dates take, patients can have their lips plumped with collagen, their underarm hair zapped with lasers, their frown lines banished with botulism toxin and their faces lifted with radio-frequency waves.
"I liked the idea that there was no downtime," said Hardy, who was among the first people in Denver to try Thermage, approved in November.
Also called ThermaLift or ThermaCool, the treatment uses radio-frequency waves to stimulate collagen, a skin building block that can help erase wrinkles by tightening and lifting the skin. Results generally begin to show in two to six months.
Hardy's goal was to look better now and ward off surgery later without seriously interrupting her tight schedule. "I'm not really into having a face-lift or my eyes done with incisions," she said.
Scalpels, time and cost turn many people away from cosmetic surgical treatments. Of the nearly 6.6 million Americans who had cosmetic procedures last year, only 1.6 million had surgery, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
The other 5 million opted for less invasive treatments to retain their youthful glows. Botox surged to the top of that list, with more than 1 million people having the wrinkle-erasing injections, a 31 percent increase over 2001.
People like the smorgasbord of popular lunchtime procedures largely because they're quick, said Dr. Alexis Parker, who performed Hardy's recent treatment.
"Everybody has a busy life - busy careers, busy social schedules," Parker said. "Especially people in Denver. It's a very active, outdoor population."
But quick doesn't necessarily mean painless, something Hardy, who has had Botox, collagen and microdermabrasion treatments, knows well.
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A new wrinkle, former pro footballer turns plastic surgeon
Former 49er John Frank's private practice as a plastic surgeon hasn't kept him from trying different things, like being involved in developing a bobsled team for Israel. (Karl Mondon/Contra Costa Times)
John Frank has inspired more than a few raised eyebrows in his life.
He attended medical school while still playing in the NFL. He quit the 49ers at the height of his career. He chose to specialize in plastic surgery instead of a more conventional medical field.
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Dead girl's kin want clinic to remain shut
Doctor Chalee Kanchanalak should not be allowed to re-open his clinic, says the family of a 17-year-old girl who died during a liposuction procedure performed by the doctor.
Kamol Muima, the father of victim Siriporn Muima, said authorities should prevent Chalee from practising medicine until the family's malpractice suit against him is settled. Kamol said he recently saw Chalee's clinic being redecorated for a re-opening. "My family is the injured party for the loss of our daughter and we have not received justice for [Chalee's] malpractice," he said.
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Saddam Hussein's Plastic Surgeon
He is not on the Pentagon's list of most wanted Iraqis, but Dr. Ala Bashir played a unique role in Saddam Hussein's life. The plastic surgeon was part of the medical team responsible for Saddam's health.In this week's "New Yorker," Jon Lee Anderson writes about the doctor's unusual close relationship with the dictator. Anderson came to know the doctor very well. He's in Amman, Jordan, just leaving Baghdad, and he is here to tell us more.
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Nikki Ziering's Plastic Surgery Warning
Actress and former Playboy Playmate NIKKI ZIERING is America's No. 1 pin-up, but her quest for the perfect body almost cost her her life. ET caught up with Nikki at the cover shoot for Women's Health and Fitness to talk her about her career, body image and plastic surgery nightmare.
"I've had to have a couple of surgeries because I've had an infection and I had bled internally and I almost died once," Nikki tells ET. "I went through a lot of awful things."
In order to enhance her near-flawless form, Nikki elected to have breast enhancement surgery several years ago. It's a decision that has haunted her ever since, as she had to have six additional surgeries to repair scar tissue from the first operation.
"I went to the top doctors. An infection just takes a long time to heal," she explains. "Then several years later you can develop scar tissue which means that you have to redo it again. It's scary and it's something that's a lifetime commitment to keep it up."
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Plastic surgery turns ugly
A group of women from Pretoria's campaign against a surgeon from Brooklyn - who they call 'the butcher' - has now spilled into cyber space. The women, who allege that they were mutilated under the scalpel of the highly-rated professor Koos Scholtz of the Medical University of South Africa (Medunsa), have launched a website on the internet to warn other women, especially from overseas, against the plastic surgeon. 46 complaints against Scholtz have already been filed with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA). At one hearing, more than ten charges against the surgeon were heard, but Scholtz has never been found guilty. Further charges against him are currently under investigation.
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Mexico hosts advanced course on cosmetic plastic surgery
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