| Parents involved in their children`s bulimia therapy | | | | Disorders Program at the University of Chicago. |
| may double the children`s percentage to | | | | Parents should encourage their adolescents to eat |
| overcome binge eating after six months, | | | | healthy and normally, and watch them during and |
| according to American researchers. The study | | | | after mealtimes to make sure they are not |
| was conducted at the University of Chicago and | | | | purging. |
| involved eighty teenagers, aged twelve to | | | | Parents and their follow-up role have been left out |
| nineteen, who suffer from bulimia nervosa. | | | | of the therapy although the family-based |
| Thirty-nine people were assigned to supportive | | | | approach proved to be more efficient, said Dr. Le |
| psychotherapy and forty one to family-based | | | | Grange. However, the researchers are still |
| treatment. | | | | questioning whether the family involvement or the |
| The study`s results showed that forty percent of | | | | eating behavior in the family was responsible for |
| the participants who had family-based treatment | | | | the improved results. |
| managed to stop binge eating and purging, and | | | | Eating disorders may lead to serious health |
| only eighteen percent of those who had | | | | hazards and further research is needed in order |
| supportive psychotherapy. | | | | to understand and treat eating disorders, said Le |
| Parents may play a key role in their children`s | | | | Grange. |
| therapy, according to Dr. Daniel Le Grange, lead | | | | (c) Project Weight Loss 2008. All rights reserved. |
| author of the study and Director of the Eating | | | | |