Eating Disorders News & Features
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Kardashian's Figure Might Trigger Women at Risk of Eating Disorders
New research warns the constant barrage of "perfect" bodies can undermine the self-esteem of young women.
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How to Support Someone With an Eating Disorder
Struggling to help your friend or family member cope with an eating disorder? Read on to learn how you can do so with or without directly speaking to them about it.
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Teens Hospitalized With Eating Disorders Rose During Pandemic
New research suggests more than twice as many young people were hospitalized with eating disorders in the first 12 months of the COVID-19 surge in the U.S.
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Stress Not Always a Trigger for Relapse in Eating Disorders
Findings challenge a common theory that's never been directly tested in patients, according to the study authors.
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Lockdowns Put Some With Eating Disorders in Crisis
At Eating Recovery Center, which offers treatment and services for people who have eating disorders, intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programs were switched to virtual when the pandemic began. But that didn't sit well with people who were working on their recovery.
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Social Media, Kids' Binge Eating Often Go Together
New research suggests hours spent scrolling through social media and watching TV trigger binge eating in preteens.
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Eating Disorders Cost Billions in the U.S.
The research team found that there were nearly 54,000 emergency department visits due to eating disorders in fiscal year 2018 to 2019, costing $29 million, and over 23,500 in-patient hospitalizations due to eating disorders, costing $209 million.
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Diet Pill, Laxative Use Often Precedes an Eating Disorder
Among those who initially did not have an eating disorder, 1.8% of those who used diet pills in the past year said they received their first eating disorder diagnosis over the next one to three years, compared to 1% of those who did not use diet pills.
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Many Young Men Putting Health at Risk to Bulk Up
The behaviors, called “disordered eating,” include eating to gain weight and using supplements or anabolic steroids to increase muscle or body size.
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Food Brings Double Dose of Pleasure to Your Brain
It turns out that eating causes the release of dopamine in your brain not once, but twice, German scientists report.
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Many Women With Eating Disorders Do Recover: Study
But it may take years or longer, researchers acknowledge
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Signs a College Student Is Developing an Eating Disorder
During the college years, young people, especially young women, are most at risk for developing eating disorders. WebMD explains.
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Guys Get Eating Disorders, Too
Binging, purging, yo-yo dieting, anorexia. Think these are girl problems? Not so fast.
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Eating Disorders May Start in Elementary School
They're often linked with other mental health issues, researchers say
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Autoimmune Diseases Tied to Eating Disorders
Several autoimmune diseases have been linked to, and may even play a role in the development of, eating disorders, new research suggests.
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Even Normal-Weight Teens Can Have Dangerous Eating Disorders, Study Finds
Researchers saw a nearly 6-fold rise in patients who met all criteria of anorexia except being underweight
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Men With Eating Disorders Often Ignore Symptoms
British study finds that too many males associate anorexia, bulimia as only a woman's issue
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Brain Stimulation Shows Promise for Eating Disorders
Small study found almost half of those with anorexia, bulimia had symptom relief
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Q&A With Demi Lovato
Chart-topping singer Demi Lovato opens up about where she's been and what's ahead for her hot career.
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Eating Disorders in Women Over 50
Eating disorders don’t just strike teens. A new survey shows that middle-aged women binge, purge, and engage in extreme exercise and dieting about as often as adolescents do.
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Eating Disorders Affect Fertility, Pregnancy
Women with anorexia or bulimia or a history of eating disorders have more fertility problems, unplanned pregnancies, and negative feelings about having a child than women with no such history, a new study from the United Kingdom finds.
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Unhealthy Eating Habits Start Early
Girls and boys who develop unhealthy eating or extreme dieting habits as adolescents are likely to carry those potentially dangerous weight control practices into adulthood.
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Study: Eating Disorders in Teens Are Common
Eating disorders in teens are common, often occur with other psychiatric problems including suicidal thoughts, and don't just affect girls, according to a new study.
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Eating Disorders on the Rise in Children
Doctors should be aware that eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia are increasing rapidly in children and adolescents and thus should be on the lookout for signs of problems in their young patients, a new report says.
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Eating Disorders and Depression
Eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating can be linked to depression. A guide to depression and eating disorders, and finding effective treatment for both.
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