While most girls were prepping for prom, doodling their crush’s name in their notebooks and hanging out at the mall, I was dreading what size my prom dress would be, doodling in my notebook about how ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — As part of Eating Disorder Awareness Week, it is import to take note that 30 million Americans now suffer the disorders, two-thirds of them women and many more young girls are also ...

"What can my body do, and why is that important to me?" New research investigates functionality appreciation and eating ...

Eating disorders are conditions that occur in people who experience a difficult relationship with food. They may face extreme ...

Gemma Sharp receives funding from an NHMRC Investigator Grant. She is the Founding Director and Member of the Consortium for Research in Eating Disorders. Amy Burton and Megan Lee do not work for, ...

Anna Mockel was 14 and suddenly obsessed with losing weight. It was spring 2020, and she had just graduated eighth grade remotely. Housebound and nervous about the transition to high school that ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Sitting down for regular family meals may protect teen girls from developing eating disorders, according to a new study published in the Archives of Pediatrics and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A patient bed is pushed through the corridor of a clinic. The number of girls and young women receiving hospital treatment for ...

More than one in 10 of 17 to 19-year-olds in England who took part in a major survey this year had an eating disorder, a rise from less than 1% of that age group six years ago. Among younger people – ...

Last week, Lara Pence, Psy.D, MBA, and site director of The Renfrew Center of Texas spoke at another of the informative webinar series that Renfrew offers from time to time. Her topic: eating ...

They exercise for hours, devise rigid rituals surrounding food, obsessively monitor their weight and yearn to resemble the taut-bodied celebrities whose images grace magazine covers. But the models ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anna Mockel was 14 and suddenly obsessed with losing weight. It was spring 2020, and she had just graduated eighth grade remotely.