Teenage boys increasingly seeing eating disorders

A new study says that teenage boys in the U.S. are increasingly seeing eating disorders, and that the rate of those problems rose greatly between the years of 1995 and 2005.

Eating disorders, which are generally connected in the media to teenage girls (not boys), involve all forms of weight control. These include dieting, diet product use, purging, exercise and vigorous exercise. Are guys working out a little too much or are they not eating enough?

The study, which looked at CDC data from that 10-year period, found that increased weight control behavior in teen males suggested growing social pressure for unrealistic body expectations -- the same reason given in recent years for female eating disorders.