Eating disorders (EDs) are psychiatric illnesses involving disordered relationships with food and pathological body weight/shape dissatisfaction. As both psychological and biological illnesses, EDs ...

So much of the training to be a therapist specializing in the treatment of eating disorders has emphasized the importance of not blaming parents for their child's eating disorder. This perspective ...

Eating disorders are common and can occur in people of any age or gender, meaning teenagers are not immune to developing one. Particularly when they are at this impressionable, comparative and ...

More and more Colorado children and young adults are suffering from eating disorders. Diagnosis rates have increased since the pandemic, and patients are showing more severe symptoms. When Kendall ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Every 52 minutes, a person dies as a direct consequence of an eating disorder. Kids as young as five can develop one, and there has been a massive spike over the last five years. From ...

Many signs are not always obvious and often go unnoticed.

For years, eating disorders were thought to predominantly affect women and girls. But it’s estimated that 1 in 3 people with the condition is male, and that 10 million American boys and men will ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - It’s a silent struggle many teens may be dealing with right now: more young people are ending up in the hospital because of eating disorders. A recent study from Stanford ...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas, Feb. 28, 2024 – According to recent articles in the International Journal of Eating Disorders, children of U.S. military members may be at increased ...

Protections for children are wholly inadequate; Congress needs to act regardless of a trial that's just starting, writes Megan Reid.