Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is an eating disorder. If you have it, you'll limit the amount and type of food you eat. Doctors sometimes call ARFID a selective eating disorder.

"Healthy" is something that has been conflated with weight, BMI, and body size. But true health is something different.

People often associate eating disorders with females. However, eating disorder behaviors, such as fasting, purging, and having a preoccupation with body image, can also affect males. The desire to ...

Disordered eating is so common that it’s hard to identify and define. It’s just accepted as "normal.” Kind of like fish not knowing they’re wet. It’s just how they live. Everyone is born with all of ...

Orthorexia is an eating disorder that's hard to recognize, but it's on the rise. Therapists and a nutritionist explain how to spot the condition and how to treat it.

Teen eating disorders have never been this rampant — or this severe. Hospitalizations for eating disorders spiked during the pandemic, doubling among adolescent girls, according to the Centers for ...

Almost 30 million Americans will have an eating disorder in their lifetime. During the pandemic, the number of people seeking treatment has jumped. But as Amna Nawaz reports, eating disorders are ...

Long overlooked in women 40 and older, midlife eating disorders are going up. Eating disorder specialists cite hormonal shifts, societal pressures, and past struggles as fueling the silent surge.

Research shows that, on average, someone in the United States dies from complications due to an eating disorder approximately ...

Eating disorders (EDs) can severely damage the brain and body. Common consequences of EDs are changes in brain size and function, malnutrition, electrolyte imbalances, 9 and gastrointestinal ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

Higher body dissatisfaction was linked to more severe eating disorder, depressive symptoms in monozygotic and dizygotic twin difference analyses. HealthDay News — Body dissatisfaction may causally ...