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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/athletes-with-eating-disorders-tips-for-coaches-parents-friends-teammates/">Athletes with Eating Disorders: Tips for Coaches, Parents, Friends &amp; Teammates</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted March 11, 2008 at 11:00 AM by Katie Drummond</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Eating disorders can be devastating to not only teams but also to families. Coaches and parents alike want their athletes to eat well and be healthy. The struggling athletes just want people to stop policing their eating and exercise. The athletes have difficulty talking about why they struggle with food; they instead communicate unhappiness by starving or stuffing their bodies. This distracts them from the pain of feeling “not good enough” and other hard feelings. Unfortunately, too many athletes struggle with food issues. A survey of more than 400 female collegiate athletes indicated they typically believed their bodies were not good enough and wanted to lose five pounds. • 43% reported feeling terrified of becoming overweight • 22% were extremely preoccupied with food and weight • 31% had irregular or absent menstrual…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/athletes-with-eating-disorders-tips-for-coaches-parents-friends-teammates/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/athletes-with-eating-disorders-tips-for-coaches-parents-friends-teammates/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/athletes-with-eating-disorders-tips-for-coaches-parents-friends-teammates/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/athletes-with-eating-disorders-tips-for-coaches-parents-friends-teammates/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-fitness/">her-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/athletics/">athletics</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/sports-medicine/">sports-medicine</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/body-image/">body-image</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/eating-disorders/">eating-disorders</a><br /><br /> </P>