An eating disorder is a term that covers a range of conditions involving abnormal or disrupted eating. This may involve over or undereating or eating nonfood items. Approximately 28.8 million ...

Many pervasive myths contribute to the stigma and prejudice that people with eating disorders can experience. At least 30 million people in the United States have an eating disorder. Despite their ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — 15 year-old Carolyn Howard started going through symptoms of an eating disorder. She was a star diver and felt the pressure from her coach and the competition to be thin. "I ...

Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is an eating disorder. If you have it, you'll limit the amount and type of food you eat. Doctors sometimes call ARFID a selective eating disorder.

Lily Collins shares details about her eating disorders and her dad's struggle with alcohol in her new book, Unfiltered Lily Collins has packed a lot of living into her 27 years. Now, the actress and ...

I was just about to finish my senior year of high school and found myself staring at a dietitian like she had just sprouted a third head and was about to sing the alphabet backward. What kind of ...

Eating disorders are characterized by altered eating behavior that negatively impacts a person’s physical and mental health. Some recent evidence has suggested that the use of social media may ...

More than 500,000 Aussies are using GLP-1s like Ozempic and Mounjaro each month. The risks to people with eating disorders is ...

Purging disorder is an eating disorder that involves “purging” behavior to induce weight loss or manipulate body shape. Purging can mean a number of things, including: self-induced vomiting misuse of ...

Kazdin is a writer, performer, four-time Emmy Award winning television journalist, and author of What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety It’s impossible to escape the soaring ...

In this series of posts (started January 18 th), I’ve been encouraging you, the reader, to forego the standard New Year’s promise to improve your figure and focus instead on practicing peace with your ...

Over the past six months, psychologist Tom Hildebrandt has seen an increase in patients with eating disorders who are taking popular weight loss drugs like Wegovy or Zepbound. “They start using this ...