{"id":17351,"date":"2010-02-12T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T06:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=17351"},"modified":"2010-02-11T21:54:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T02:54:37","slug":"pregorexia-the-new-eating-disorder-affecting-pregnant-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/pregorexia-the-new-eating-disorder-affecting-pregnant-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregorexia: The New Eating Disorder Affecting Pregnant Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pregnancy-weight\"<\/a>There is an unfortunate new bar being raised when it comes to pregnancy weight<\/a> gain. Pregorexia\u00a0is a relatively new phenomenon in which moms-to-be gain very little weight throughout their entire pregnancy<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and return to their pre-pregnant weight within just a few days of giving birth<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Pregorexia\u00a0is affecting more and more American women<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> who choose to eat as little as possible during pregnancy out of fear of gaining weight.\u00a0With celebrities<\/a> like Angelina Jolie and Nicole Kidman, who maintained a very thin figure throughout their pregnancy and reclaimed their pre-baby body in very little time,\u00a0the spotlight on such high-profile women may be putting other women at risk for developing this disorder.<\/p>\n

The health ramifications of this condition for both the mother and unborn child cannot be underestimated<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>.\u00a0Drastically reducing calories during pregnancy has been linked to low baby birth\u00a0weight<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>,\u00a0birth defects<\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>like spina bifida, growth retardation<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0and a host of vitamin and mineral\u00a0deficiencies<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> affecting mother and child<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Since pregorexia is such a new condition, very little epidemiological\u00a0data exists on the prevalence of it. But\u00a0a few important research studies discuss the prevalence of eating disorders in pregnant women and the risk factors of being anorexic while also being pregnant. Most of the research comes from the United Kingdom, where pregorexia has received more attention than here in the U.S.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0Tommy’s, the British organization that funds research on pregnancy, pregnancy complications and prenatal education,\u00a0two percent of all pregnant women in the\u00a0UK suffer from eating disorders<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Many gynecologists and obstetricians are clinically aware of tell-tale signs of anorexia or bulimia but very few of them know what questions should be asked to an expectant mother <\/span>who has a history of an eating disorder or is showing the\u00a0hallmark signs of pregorexia such as slow or gradual weight gain or excessive exercise.\u00a0 According to the\u00a0Remuda Ranch\u00a0Programs for Eating Disorders,\u00a0one of the\u00a0nation’s leading eating disorder treatment centers, eating disorders are increasing in women of childbearing age.\u00a0They\u00a0estimate that four percent of child-bearing women\u00a0have an eating disorder.<\/p>\n

Hopefully as more awareness is generated around pregorexia, additional research and education will be done so that medical and health professionals and moms-to-be can understand the signs, risks and best preventive means to address this disorder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is an unfortunate new bar being raised when it comes to pregnancy weight gain. Pregorexia\u00a0is a relatively new phenomenon in which moms-to-be gain very little weight throughout their entire pregnancy\u00a0and return to their pre-pregnant weight within just a few … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695,59],"tags":[333,29,3042,234],"class_list":["post-17351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","category-pregnancy","tag-anorexia","tag-nutrition","tag-pregorexia","tag-weight-gain"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17351"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17353,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17351\/revisions\/17353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}