Just a day ago, on Monday, an 18-year-old girl from Kannur died due to continued starvation after following extreme diets she had seen on online platforms. For the past couple of months, she had taken ...

Doctors, patients and researchers are at the very beginning of understanding how the new class of obesity drugs interact with ...

Anorexia is like having a distorted mirror in your mind that makes you see yourself as bigger than you really are. It's this relentless fear of gaining weight that drives people to skip meals or eat ...

Anorexia helped to confirm that nothing much else in life mattered: just intellect and its results, and complete control over food. Controlling food completely, which meant controlling my day ...

In her breakout novel "Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia," Marya Hornbacher told all. She wrote of making herself throw up a meal for the first time at age 9. She wrote of sneaking vodka in a ...

Eighteen years ago, Steve and Linda Znachko dropped their 14-year-old daughter Anna off at a private, inpatient eating disorder facility for the first time. The sign at the facility’s entrance read, ...

Anorexia and OCD are disorders that interconnect, often driven by obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors. Anorexia nervosa and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are two distinct mental health ...

Stephen Klagholz remembers how small his world became—isolated, dark, and singularly focused. What began as a quest for physical fitness morphed into delusion and an obsession with weight loss.

Confused, I repeated the doctor’s words back to her. ‘I have endometriosis?’ ‘Yes,’ she replied. ‘And I recommend going straight for IVF, promptly.’ I was too stunned to speak. What had started as a ...

Eating disorders affect people of all races and ethnicities. However, barriers to healthcare may prevent some racial and ethnic groups from receiving accurate diagnoses and treatment. Eating disorders ...