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This up-to-date electronic book on CD-ROM provides the best collection available anywhere of official Federal government information and documents on the subject of anorexia and eating disorders. This CD-ROM uses next-generation search technology that allows complete indexing and makes all files on the disc fully searchable. For patients, practical information is provided in clearly written patient education documents. For medical professionals, doctor reference tools and texts have detailed technical information and clinical background material.

An eating disorder is an emotional and physical problem that is associated with an obsession with food, body weight, or body shape. Often, a person with an eating disorder diets, exercises, and/or eats excessively. These behaviors can have serious health consequences and can even be life threatening. The three most common types of eating disorders are anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating. Each type has its own characteristics and diagnosis.

This thoroughly researched collection presents vital information from many authoritative sources: Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Contents include clinical and medical Information, with information on risk groups, signs, symptoms, testing, diagnosis, treatment, and clinical trials.

In addition to the comprehensive disease-specific coverage, as a bonus we have included an encyclopedic collection of general medical and health documents, with extensive material from the CDC, FDA, and NIH on hundreds of diseases. Since navigating the Internet to find additional non-governmental medical information can be confusing, we’ve also provided our exclusive “Guide to Leading Medical Websites” with updated links to 73 of the best sites for medical information! By using weblinks on the CD-ROM, you can quickly check for the latest clinical updates directly from the government.

This CD-ROM has over 34,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software and Reader software is included. Advanced search and indexing features are built into our reproduction, providing a complete full-text index. This enables the user to search all the files on the disk at one time for words or phrases using just one search command! The Acrobat cataloging technology adds enormous value and uncommon functionality to this impressive collection of government documents and material. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, comprehensive, and portable!

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SANTA FE, NM (PRWEB) December 31, 2004

Locally-based, internationally-operating organization, Anorexia Activism announced Wednesday they will be donating all proceeds from merchandise sales to benefit tsunami relief aid organizations. Funds will be donated to UNICEF.

In addition to attending to basic health and safety concerns for tsunami victims, UNICEF is currently working to provide psycho-social support for families traumatized by the disaster. As of press-time, UNICEF has already delivered bedding, clothing, medical supplies, as well as educational tools and recreational items for children in areas damaged by the earthquake and tsunami.

Often, internalized trauma manifests in varying degrees of psychiatric disorders in later years. Research has shown that addressing the emotional well-being of trauma survivors, even in small efforts such as working to restore a sense of normalcy, can be of great psychological benefit immediately as well as in years to come.

Founder and director of Anorexia Activism, Amy Guth, says the decision to give up months of funding was made in order to help “in one of the only ways we are able to give.” Anorexia Activism is an activist and educational outreach organization working to promote media literacy and eating disorders awareness.

To browse Anorexia Activism’s selection of t-shirts, stickers and other items, click on the links and merchandise section of their website. All proceeds from purchases made between now and March 1st, 2004 will benefit UNICEF.

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This up-to-date and comprehensive set of two CD-ROM discs provides a superb collection of official Federal government documents on the subject of anorexia nervosa and eating disorders. An eating disorder is marked by extremes. It is present when a person experiences severe disturbances in eating behavior, such as extreme reduction of food intake or extreme overeating, or feelings of extreme distress or concern about body weight or shape. A person with an eating disorder may have started out just eating smaller or larger amounts of food than usual, but at some point, the urge to eat less or more spirals out of control. Eating disorders are very complex, and despite scientific research to understand them, the biological, behavioral and social underpinnings of these illnesses remain elusive. The two main types of eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. A third category is “eating disorders not otherwise specified (EDNOS),” which includes several variations of eating disorders. Most of these disorders are similar to anorexia or bulimia but with slightly different characteristics. Binge-eating disorder, which has received increasing research and media attention in recent years, is one type of EDNOS. Women and girls are much more likely than males to develop an eating disorder. Men and boys account for an estimated 5 to 15 percent of patients with anorexia or bulimia and an estimated 35 percent of those with binge-eating disorder. Eating disorders are real, treatable medical illnesses with complex underlying psychological and biological causes. They frequently co-exist with other psychiatric disorders such as depression, substance abuse, or anxiety disorders. People with eating disorders also can suffer from numerous other physical health complications, such as heart conditions or kidney failure, which can lead to death. For patients, practical information is provided in clearly written patient education documents. For medical professionals, doctor reference tools and texts have detailed technical information and clinical background material. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, and portable – everything you need to know, from the federal sources you trust. This thoroughly researched collection presents vital information from many authoritative sources: Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the relevant institute for this disease, and others. In addition to the comprehensive disease-specific coverage, this disc set also includes our Medical Encyclopedia, a .95 value! The Encyclopedia presents a collection of official documents about a wide range of medical topics, diseases, illnesses, health and wellness. There is vital information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), National Cancer Institute, and more. Topics covered include: major diseases, including cancer, heart and vascular disease, stroke, blood diseases and disorders, lung diseases, and neurological disorders such as dementia and epilepsy * CDC Health Topics A to Z, Foodborne Illnesses, Infants and Children, Injuries, Occupational Health, Older Adults, Women * CDC Travelers’ Health – Destinations, Vaccinations, Diseases, Mosquito, Tick, Food, Water, Clinics, Yellow Book, Children, Airplanes, Cruise Ships, Special Needs, Relief Workers, * Dietary Guidelines * NIH A to Z from abnormalities to X-rays. Since navigating the Internet to find additional non-governmental medical information can be confusing, we’ve also provided our exclusive “Guide to Leading Medical Websites” with updated links to 67 of the best sites for medical information! Built-in weblinks let you quickly check for the latest clinical updates directly from the best portals, news sites, reference and other websites.

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This up-to-date and comprehensive set of two CD-ROM discs provides a superb collection of official Federal government documents on the subject of anorexia nervosa and eating disorders. An eating disorder is marked by extremes. It is present when a person experiences severe disturbances in eating behavior, such as extreme reduction of food intake or extreme overeating, or feelings of extreme distress or concern about body weight or shape. A person with an eating disorder may have started out just eating smaller or larger amounts of food than usual, but at some point, the urge to eat less or more spirals out of control. Eating disorders are very complex, and despite scientific research to understand them, the biological, behavioral and social underpinnings of these illnesses remain elusive. The two main types of eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. A third category is “eating disorders not otherwise specified (EDNOS),” which includes several variations of eating disorders. Most of these disorders are similar to anorexia or bulimia but with slightly different characteristics. Binge-eating disorder, which has received increasing research and media attention in recent years, is one type of EDNOS. Women and girls are much more likely than males to develop an eating disorder. Men and boys account for an estimated 5 to 15 percent of patients with anorexia or bulimia and an estimated 35 percent of those with binge-eating disorder. Eating disorders are real, treatable medical illnesses with complex underlying psychological and biological causes. They frequently co-exist with other psychiatric disorders such as depression, substance abuse, or anxiety disorders. People with eating disorders also can suffer from numerous other physical health complications, such as heart conditions or kidney failure, which can lead to death. For patients, practical information is provided in clearly written patient education documents. For medical professionals, doctor reference tools and texts have detailed technical information and clinical background material. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, and portable – everything you need to know, from the federal sources you trust. This thoroughly researched collection presents vital information from many authoritative sources: Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the relevant institute for this disease, and others. In addition to the comprehensive disease-specific coverage, this disc set also includes our Medical Encyclopedia, a .95 value! The Encyclopedia presents a collection of official documents about a wide range of medical topics, diseases, illnesses, health and wellness. There is vital information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), National Cancer Institute, and more. Topics covered include: major diseases, including cancer, heart and vascular disease, stroke, blood diseases and disorders, lung diseases, and neurological disorders such as dementia and epilepsy * CDC Health Topics A to Z, Foodborne Illnesses, Infants and Children, Injuries, Occupational Health, Older Adults, Women * CDC Travelers’ Health – Destinations, Vaccinations, Diseases, Mosquito, Tick, Food, Water, Clinics, Yellow Book, Children, Airplanes, Cruise Ships, Special Needs, Relief Workers, * Dietary Guidelines * NIH A to Z from abnormalities to X-rays. Since navigating the Internet to find additional non-governmental medical information can be confusing, we’ve also provided our exclusive “Guide to Leading Medical Websites” with updated links to 67 of the best sites for medical information! Built-in weblinks let you quickly check for the latest clinical updates directly from the government and the best commercial portals other sites.

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Houston, TX (PRWEB) February 1, 2007

ChristiaNet.com (http://www.christianet.com), the world’s largest Christian portal with twelve million monthly page loads, conducted a new survey asking the question, “Is prayer a solution for anorexia? The majority of participants believe that it is a solution. One participant commented, “Yes, I think prayer is definitely one way that you can overcome anorexia but it isn’t the only way. There is a need for counseling and church support for someone who is struggling with any eating disorder.” (http://www.christianet.com/anorexia/)

Out of 313 participants, 226 answered “yes” to the survey question. Believers seem to understand that prayer is an important element for any problem. Another important element that is talked about from many of those who answered this survey is the component of faith. One Believer commented, “The only solution for anorexia is Jesus and His finished work on the Cross.” Do Christians have faith in Christ and what He accomplished on the Cross? Believers should read God’s Word as a way to increase faith and bring revelation.

President, Bill Cooper, of ChristiaNet offered some advice concerning how to pray. He said, “Christians should ask God for wisdom and guidance.” In order to experience complete healing, God may lead a Believer to seek professional help. God isn’t limited in the way He brings healing to His children. Eating disorders can cause some major health problems and even lead to death. Many of the participants in the survey agreed that seeking medical help may be an important component with the healing process.

Thirty-two readers answered “no” to the survey question and 55 were unsure. One Christian in this group made an interesting point by saying, “Prayer is the prescription and when God presents the medicine we must take it!” God’s answer for healing may include more than one prescription. God understands all things and knows what needs to happen for a complete healing to take place, which leads to the comment of another reader who said, “Faith is very important, and the heart must be ready to receive the blessing of the cure.” The blessing of the cure may not come in the way that is expected but it will come. Ask God and then trust in Him for the answer. For more information, visit: http://www.christianet.com/articles/

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(Figure 1: Failing (British) Systems In The News)

Or rather, they don’t when something out of the ordinary happens. Like a large amount of snow falls in a short space of time, or the ambient temperature stays below ambient for a long period of time. But, hold on a minute, didn’t we used to be able to cope with such things? 30 centimetres of snow might have closed Heathrow for a few hours in the past, but suddenly travelers are expected to endure five days of ‘flight cancelled’? People have found themselves with no water for a few hours following a freezing spell, but (as in Northern Ireland right now) surely not for over a week?

I believe that all of these instances are symptomatic not of a bit of extreme weather (Helsinki airport has been closed due to weather for approximately 3 hours in the last twenty years), but of something rather more sinister. My hypothesis? Lean.

Not Lean as it was originally conceived, however, but rather the crude bastardisation of the original thinking that has occurred in a rather large proportion of organizations.

Like a lot of things, some very smart initial thinking often gets diluted to the point where the smart thinking ceases to be smart any more. The big idea underpinning Lean is ‘waste is bad and so should be eliminated’. A statement that few would argue with. Indeed it is a statement that has passed through ‘common sense’ to become accepted dogma. It would take a very brave person inside any organisation these days to argue against adopting Lean principles.

But let’s have a look at what we actually mean when we say ‘waste’. Depending on which author you’re reading, there are a host of different ways and means of classifying the different types of waste. Figure 2 lists 15 types of waste as may be collated when looking across all of the different classification methods.

waste – process, business (employees, managers suppliers, etc), pure
waste of over-production
waste of waiting
waste of transporting
waste of inappropriate processing (using a hammer to crack a nut)
waste of unnecessary inventory
waste of unnecessary motions
waste of defects
waste of untapped human potential (empowerment)
waste of inappropriate systems (over-specified computers, machines, etc)
waste of energy and water
wasted materials
service and office wastes (excess meetings, food, photocopying, etc)
waste of customer time
waste of defecting customers

(Figure 2: Different Types Of ‘Waste’)

Now, an important question. Take a couple of minutes. Which one is the odd one out from Figure 2: Different Types Of ‘Waste’?

Found it?

Probably not.

Before revealing the answer, let’s take a moment to work out why the question is a difficult one: Like a lot of ‘improvement’ initiatives inside organizations, the initial big idea has to be communicated from the Board down the food chain so that everyone understands what is trying to be achieved. The moment we get below CEO level, however, and people are immediately forced to look through the list at those things they are able to do something about. Inevitably, someone working in the HR department, or on the shop-floor of a production line, or cleaning the desks at night is able to do something about a relatively small proportion of the available menu. Everyone below CEO in fact can only do something about a proportion of the total list.

And which is the one that almost no-one has any direct control over (probably including the CEO)?

Answer: the last one in the list -”waste of defecting customers”.

All the others are very tangible, measurable wastes. Wastes that people have the authority to do something about within their silo of the business. But ‘defecting customers’ has nothing to do with what happens inside either your silo or indeed inside the organization. A defecting  customer is a waste that occurs outside the system. It is therefore a difficult one for anyone to do anything about…

…and as a consequence, it usually gets left off the list (in fact, in many organizations, it never makes it onto the list in the first place). And the moment that happens, the original philosophy has been corrupted and the organization is well on the way to the sort of failure shown in Figure 1.

It is very easy to strip out ‘waste’ when you’re only looking within your bit of the system. So, to take one of the Figure 1 examples, Northern Ireland Water chopped 500 jobs in 2007 in order to ‘strip out waste’. Part of which turned out to be a substantial chunk of their emergency response engineering team. An easy target when everything is working fine (‘look at those guys doing nothing in that office over there’). Not so great when something unexpected happens… and suddenly the desire to be lean has turned into anorexia. A ‘waste’ was stripped out of the system without realizing, until it was too late, that it wasn’t waste at all from the bigger picture perspective.

As the National Health Service, BP, Rolls-Royce, Heathrow airport and Northern Ireland Water have already found to their cost, and no doubt a thousand others still to experience their ‘bigger picture perspective’ problem will find in the coming months and years, Lean demands a holistic view. Lean within a silo leads to a lean silo and a dysfunctional – anorexic – system. Lean within a silo is folly.

So What?

You might rightly ask. Is this just a post-Christmas rant, or is there a point to this discussion? Hopefully, the latter.

And it is this. Everyone recognizes that when a system approaches maturity, it starts hitting some fundamental limits. The limits stay fixed, but the pressure to ‘do better’ (‘eliminate waste’) if anything only increases…

…and a contradiction emerges…

…which we know dictates that we either resolve it or accept that we are bound to create an inevitable failure.

It is expensive to run an airport like Heathrow. Especially following a recession which has seen a fall in passenger numbers and therefore revenues. The trade-off way of resolving this conflict is to not invest in snow-clearing equipment and pray for fine weather. The contradiction solving method says we have to change the system. Which in turn means identifying some resources that can help. Preferably free ones, that want to help because a win-win solution is produced.

On the fifth toe-curlingly embarrassing day of the BAA’s inability to get the second runway at Heathrow open, the company’s COO appeared on the national news to thank the Government for their offer to bring in the Army to help clear the 30cm of snow from the runways, but to say that the help was not needed. Fair enough that he didn’t want to (or couldn’t) invest in more snow-clearing equipment before the snow fell; but bordering on the criminal that he hadn’t been on the phone to the local Army base to request their help five minutes after the (correctly predicted by the forecasters) snow started falling and the impending disaster began, never mind five days later.

The Army would’ve won – public goodwill, the opportunity to train on a ‘real’ mission, etc – BAA would’ve won and sure as damnit the poor stranded passengers would’ve won. Only problem: it was a solution that required someone to step outside their cosy silo.

Be warned, these incidents aren’t a one off caused by some slightly worse than normal weather, they’re the first signs of a corporate anorexia pandemic. The only cure for which is to start solving contradictions and transcending a host of artificially created and usually mis-conceived silos.

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