Male Eating Disorders

A radio documentary I researched, produced and presented in 2003 as part of my post grad course in Broadcast Journalism on the rarely discussed but important issue of male eating disorder in the UK.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• male
• eating
• disorders
• teens
• health
• weight
• obese
• anorexia
• bulemia
• overweight
• image
• gay
• diet
• nutrition

[Reddhead925]

Can someone help me out? I live in the USA and just found out my nephew is bulimic. I have been around this stuff all my professional life (ballet dancer), but I am not sure what my first step is with my nephew. Any place I can call? Any way I can help him or contact?

[kensington25]

@Reddhead925 I hope someone can help. Best of luck :)

[vforvlogging]

WONDERFUL job. Lots of people think women are the only ones that get airbrushed and are unrealistic-looking in magazines. I know as a male that there is tonnes of pressure to have a tan, and muscles and to look a certain way.

Excellent job.

[MoeBoe100]

This is disturbing. They should allow this into the schools to teach everyone that this isn't just for women. The other comments on here is just sad. Good job presenting this.

[Reddhead925]

Can someone help me out? I live in the USA and just found out my nephew is bulimic. I have been around this stuff all my professional life (ballet dancer), but I am not sure what my first step with my nephew. Any place I can call? Any way I can help him or contact?

[bobbob12g]

@MoeBoe100 It's funny. I'm also a twin.. I was born 7 minutes before my twin brother. I was always about 20 pounds heavier than him, he was actually underweight. They had to do an emergency cesarean section because I was getting all the nutrients in the wound. Somehow that affected his metabolism throughout his whole life. We always would joke that I was getting all the Jello my mom was eating. Maybe this needs to be looked into further in the medical community.

[kensington25]

Thanks so much. It is a very serious problem and definitely seems to be developing.

[MoeBoe100]

You're welcome bud!! Like I said Bryan and I are identical twins, but he is like 30 pounds heavier than me and always has been. It's odd for twins to be so different in weight and proportion. He is 8 minutes older than me and probably chowed down all the food in mom's womb. That's the joke in the family about us. Seriously though, this is a very serious matter developing everywhere around the world. Very sad but true.

[kensington25]

Thanks so much and I really appreciate it :)

[MoeBoe100]

You're absolutely right. Everybody used to think that I was anorexic because of the way I look. My brother Bryan always did have such a better figure than me. BLAST HIM!!! Seriously though, although we're identical twins we couldn't look anymore different. Still a great job here. Thumbs up with 5 stars.