Childhood eating disorders have increased by 50% in less than a decade, latest data has demonstrated. In the past school year, more than 10,000 children in England were waiting to be treated for an ...

Researchers have several theories about the connection between bipolar disorder and binge eating. Some of these involve genetics, trauma, and side effects of certain medications. Binge eating is ...

At the same time, Dowell was dealing with an eating disorder. While food insecurity and eating disorders may not always be a part of the same conversation, research has demonstrated a link between ...

and binge eating disorder among women. Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) have a higher risk for eating disorders, disordered eating, binge eating disorder, and bulimia nervosa regardless ...

Eating disorders are complex and serious conditions that affect millions of people around the world. While there are evidence-based treatments that are effective for many individuals with eating ...

Eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia have risen sharply in Europe, but access to treatments has failed to keep up. Marta Paterlini asks why Stella, a 20 year old from Stockholm, has anorexia ...

An eating disorder is often an unconscious coping strategy for dealing with deeper psychological pain. An intense focus on food and body image can offer distraction and numbing from difficult feelings ...

At that time, neither of us named this behaviour as an eating disorder. But it certainly was, as confirmed by the GP I marched her to that same week. Lily was immediately referred to CAMHS (child ...

Australia's first publicly-funded specialist residential eating disorder treatment centre is ready to offer a "place that feels like home" to patients in Canberra. The home-like environment will ...

Eating disorders can affect all people. As many as 30 million people in the U.S. have an eating disorder. 28.8 million Americans will have an eating disorder in their lifetime. Eating disorders have ...

Waller, Glenn Corstorphine, Emma and Mountford, Victoria 2007. The Role of Emotional Abuse in the Eating Disorders: Implications for Treatment. Eating Disorders, Vol ...