You may not have heard of orthorexia, but you’ve probably seen it. It’s an eating disorder that’s characterized as an ...

What defines an eating disorder To put it simply, an "eating disorder is a psychiatric disorder, characterized by found disturbances in eating and feeding behavior that causes significant impairment ...

For an illness that affects so many people, there are plenty of misconceptions about eating disorders, experts say. Eating disorders affect nearly 1 in 10 people worldwide, according to the nonprofit ...

A recent study of more than 11,000 pediatric eating disorder hospitalizations in Ontario found rates of hospitalizations increased 139% from 2002 to 2019. Among young male patients, hospitalizations ...

Key Takeaways If you notice your kid is struggling with eating and body image—don't panic. A nonjudgemental talk is the first ...

Researchers have identified many different causes for eating disorders, ranging from genetic risk factors to the culture a person grows up in. However, no single factor causes all eating disorders.

DEAR ABBY: After several months of weight loss, our preteen daughter was hospitalized after a trip to the ER. She was diagnosed with ARFID. It’s an eating disorder we had never heard of but one in ...

Billie Jean King is trying weight loss medication to address her binge eating disorder (BED), revealing on the April 24 episode of actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s Wiser Than Me podcast that it was ...

For an illness that affects so many people, there are plenty of misconceptions about eating disorders, experts say. Eating disorders affect nearly 1 in 10 people worldwide, according to the nonprofit ...