General practices have recorded a large rise in eating disorder diagnoses and self-harm episodes among teenage girls in the UK in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic, a research team has found. The ...

Researchers have identified many different causes for eating disorders, ranging from genetic risk factors to the culture a person grows up in. However, no single factor causes all eating disorders.

People often associate eating disorders with females. However, eating disorder behaviors, such as fasting, purging, and having a preoccupation with body image, can also affect males. The desire to ...

Different people deal with stress in different ways. While some individuals go for a run, some prefer to sleep or talk it out ...

Binge eating disorder is the one of most misunderstood eating disorders, experts say. Here, mental health pros separate fact ...

People with eating disorders often describe their thoughts as obsessive and their behaviors as ritualistic, or say that their brain just will not stop. Some wonder if what they are experiencing is OCD ...

New research suggests GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Wegovy may help ease symptoms of binge eating disorder and related ...

Food should nourish us, not consume us. This post explores how the pursuit of perfect nutrition can quietly undermine health.

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Recovering from an eating disorder can be long and complex. But when recovery focuses on a clinical checklist of symptoms, such as reaching a healthy weight, it may ignore other important aspects of ...