Protruding rib cages, brittle bones, and thin hair: These symptoms often come to mind for many doctors and therapists when they think of someone suffering from an eating disorder. What about excessive health consciousness, extreme muscle mass, and obsessive exercise? New disorders such as muscle dysmorphia are being discovered in males that have not been brought to the forefront of the news today. The male population is severely underreported and is usually overlooked when people discuss eating disorder statistics and findings. This stigma and position that people have thinking that only women suffer from eating disorders only makes it harder for males to admit they have a problem and seek treatment before it becomes too serious. Men need help too, and other people like authors and medical experts agree. Today more attention is being paid to this problem, not only by the medical world but also by the public. Popular articles were published for most of the public to read in multiple newspapers and major magazines such as Cosmopolitan and Gentlemen Quarterly. In the July 2013 Cosmo article, "The Rise Of The Dieting Dude," author Annie Daly highlights the fact that modern men's obsession with dieting and their body image is seen as normal even when they go out of their way . Daly includes real-life examples of men who refuse to eat certain foods and who have obsessive eating habits. The main problem with his article is that some readers have left reviews and comments stating that they see nothing wrong with men who go on extreme diets and spend most of their time in the gym. Today's distorted views lead people to believe that males should be naturally tall and slender while being large and... center of paper... attention." San Francisco Gate 21 October 2013: page no. SFGate Web. 4 November 2013.Crisp, Arthur "1.5. Anorexia nervosa in males: similarities and differences with anorexia nervosa in females." European Eating Disorders Review 14.3 (2006): 163-167. Discover Galileo. Web. 26 September 2013. Dalgliesh, Jane and Katherine Nutt. "Treating men with eating disorders in the NHS." Nursing Standard 27.35 (2013): 42-46. Discover Galileo. Web. 22 September 2013.Daly, Annie "The Rise Of The Dieting Dude." Cosmopolitan 255.1 (2013): 118-120 . MasterFILE Web. 9 September 2013. Penn, Nathaniel. "20% of anorexics are male", September 2012: n November 2013. Russell, Gerald. "Arthur Hamilton Crisp Former Professor of Psychiatry, St George's Hospital Medical School, London.". 2013.
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