Disordered eating can feel protective, helping manage stress. Recovery involves facing food-related anxiety with support, ...

I have been working in the field of eating disorders since 1982. National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (NEDAW) is a good time to reflect on how far we have come since that time and how far we have ...

March 5, 2007 — -- While eating disorders affect millions of Americans, until recently, people in the medical community didn't fully understand them. Dr. Ira Sacker changed that 20 years ago when ...

When some students learned there was no Boston University group dedicated to addressing students’ eating disorders last fall, they acted quickly. The students formed Helping Hands in an effort to ...

Eating disorders are complicated illnesses that skyrocketed among teenagers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pediatrician Eva Trujillo says they... Eating disorder recovery in a world of diet culture ...

What is binge eating disorder? When we hear the term "binge", many of us associate it with subsequent purging, as seen in bulimia. Binge eating disorder, or BED, however, differs in that individuals ...

Rula reports that supporting someone with an eating disorder is vital. Awareness, care, and open communication can aid their ...

Eating disorder recovery isn’t linear. An author talks about her experience navigating this (often) long and complicated process.

Kristina Saffran was sent to a rehabilitation facility to fight her eating disorder. After a relapse, she went back. Then she went back twice more, for a total of seven months, over her freshman year ...

Eating disorders are not caused by genetics alone, but genes can play a significant role in making someone more vulnerable to developing one. Researchers do not understand the exact cause of eating ...