Our strive to be thin, fit, pretty, and forever young is not only portrayed in our personal lives through our strict “no-carb diets,” excessive workouts, or the cosmetic products and procedures we ...

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 ...

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 ...

Source: Plate: credit Anatoliy Sadovskiy/Adobe Stock Food: credit lassedesignen/Adobe Stock Over the past decade, the prevalence of eating disorders—especially among adolescents and young adults—has ...

When Mae Lynn Reyes-Rodríguez was a graduate student in psychology at the University of Puerto Rico in the early 1990s, she learned there were no studies of how many Latinos suffered from anorexia, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A growing number of older women are seeking treatment for eating disorders. Many have struggled without help for decades. In 2012, Janice Bremis went to an eating disorder treatment facility in ...

Share on Pinterest Collage by Yunuen Bonaparte. Photo courtesy of KoolShooters. The pressures that girls and women face to achieve unrealistic body ideals have been subject to public concern for some ...