Eating disorders are among the many illnesses that are not easily identifiable, making it difficult to recognize who may be struggling and require support. They are complex mental health illnesses ...

I have a babbling baby who currently loves to eat nearly anything. (Watching her smear avocado onto her nine-month-old face is a genuine evening highlight.) But since I’m a contemporary parent with ...

The word trigger is used to describe a stimulus (experience, memory, sensation, feeling, or thought) that "triggers" an uncomfortable, overwhelming, adverse emotional reaction. Once triggered, the ...

Eating disorders are serious conditions that go beyond dieting or wanting to lose weight. They can significantly affect one’s physical and mental health and overall well-being. In addition, out of all ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (ABC 4)- National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (NEDAW), which runs from February 24 to March 2, “is an annual campaign to educate the public about eating disorders and to engage ...

In A Nutshell Orthorexia is an obsession with “healthy” eating that can damage health and relationships. Because it looks ...

"I've had many patients come to me with restrictive eating patterns, but they say like, I'm not trying to lose weight, you know, restricting for some other reason. And when I tell them you do actually ...

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

Keynote speaker Kitty Westin will present "Understanding Eating Disorders and how to support someone who is suffering" on Monday, Feb. 27 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Bohannon Hall on the UMD campus. Westin ...

Eating disorders are complex mental health conditions that can have serious consequences on both physical and emotional well-being. They affect people of all ages, genders, and backgrounds, and it's ...

Jason Wood was sitting in a restaurant on vacation with his husband, angry and upset because he couldn’t swap pita for fresh vegetables in his hummus plate. The pain wasn’t overblown, Wood said. It ...