• What happened to body positivity? – podcast
    Thursday, May 29, 2025 from Eating disorders | The Guardian
    Jenny Stevens and Gina Tonic discuss the rise of #SkinnyTok and the popularity of weight-loss drugs “There’s lots of chat at the moment about #SkinnyTok,” Jenny Stevens , the Guardian’s deputy features editor, tells Helen Pidd . “The...
  • ‘I was scared to even eat the vegetables in my fridge’: the eating disorder that focuses on food purity
    Friday, May 2, 2025 from Eating disorders | The Guardian
    As health institutions collapse and Maha influencers spread food fears, experts say orthorexia is on the rise Katie*’s struggles with disordered eating began when she was just 11. A gymnast, she put a lot of value in being petite. Katie,...
  • French minister reports #SkinnyTok to regulator over anorexia concerns
    Tuesday, April 22, 2025 from Eating disorders | The Guardian
    Digital media minister Clara Chappaz says TikTok videos promoting extreme thinness ‘revolting and unacceptable’ The French government is seeking to take action against a TikTok group promoting extreme thinness among young women and...
  • In the rush towards a law on assisted dying, the vulnerable have become expendable | Sonia Sodha
    Sunday, April 13, 2025 from Eating disorders | The Guardian
    Concerns that Kim Leadbeater’s proposed legislation is ‘flawed and dangerous’ are being overlooked Last month, ITV News reported on the case of 51-year-old Anne, who travelled to a Swiss assisted suicide clinic to end her own life after...
  • My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss audiobook review – a life shaped by anorexia and literature
    Friday, April 4, 2025 from Eating disorders | The Guardian
    The Scottish actor Morven Christie draws out the forlorn beauty of the prose in this haunting memoir A haunting exploration of a life shaped by literature and anorexia, The Fell author Sarah Moss ’s memoir is told in the second person,...
  • Ozempic is hailed as a miracle drug. But how does it affect people with eating disorders?
    Friday, April 4, 2025 from Eating disorders | The Guardian
    Doctors worry about semaglutides being used by people with restrictive eating disorders – but research also shows they could help others struggling with binge eating GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic have, in three short years, changed our...
  • Research highlights urgent need for national strategy to combat rising eating disorders
    Thursday, March 27, 2025 from Eating Disorder Research News -- ScienceDaily
    The increasing number of people with eating disorders and a lack of national guidance for support teams has led to researchers calling for a new national strategy that includes specific guidance to support the remote delivery of eating...
  • My secret life as a model: ‘High fashion loved me most when I was visibly bony’
    Thursday, March 20, 2025 from Eating disorders | The Guardian
    It is a world of 13-hour days, stressful castings and size 6 figures. Here is what it is like to navigate the big opportunities – and impossible demands ‘She was sitting at the kitchen table, eating raw cauliflower. For dinner.” It’s...
  • Depressing findings for those suffering from eating disorders
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from Eating Disorder Research News -- ScienceDaily
    New research shows that people with eating disorders are more harshly judged than those suffering from depression, making it much harder for them to seek treatment.
  • Royal Ballet school settles with former student over body shaming claim
    Thursday, January 30, 2025 from Eating disorders | The Guardian
    Ellen Elphick, 31, accused the elite institution in London of breaching its duty of care The Royal Ballet school has reached a financial settlement with a former student who said the body shaming she experienced during her time there...
  • Calorie labels on menus could make eating disorders worse
    Tuesday, January 28, 2025 from Eating Disorder Research News -- ScienceDaily
    Calorie labels on restaurant menus are negatively impacting people with eating disorders, according to a new study. The review found that individuals who have been diagnosed with an eating disorder changed their behaviors if presented...
  • Patients with anorexia have elevated opioid neurotransmitter activity in the brain
    Monday, January 27, 2025 from Eating Disorder Research News -- ScienceDaily
    A study showed that changes in the functioning of opioid neurotransmitters in the brain may underlie anorexia.
  • How writing about female cannibals changed my relationship with food
    Saturday, January 25, 2025 from Eating disorders | The Guardian
    Describing issues of autonomy, femgore, worth and hunger all had an impact on what I wrote and how I felt about myself, says Lucy Rose My conflict with food began before I was born. According to family lore, I couldn’t be sated, even in...
  • Child mental health admissions to acute wards in England rise 65% in a decade
    Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Eating disorders | The Guardian
    Hospital wards struggle to cope with rising cases of self-harm and eating disorders, the study warns The number of children admitted to acute hospital wards in England due to serious concerns over their mental health has increased by 65%...
  • Assisted dying bill amendment aims to close potential ‘anorexia loophole’
    Tuesday, January 21, 2025 from Eating disorders | The Guardian
    Exclusive: Concerns raised that wording of law could result in people with eating disorders using it to end their lives MPs will look to close a potential anorexia loophole in the assisted dying bill that psychiatrists fear could result...
  • ‘I knew I was overexercising and not eating enough’: novelist Emma Healey on the dark side of self-control
    Saturday, January 18, 2025 from Eating disorders | The Guardian
    Her bestselling debut Elizabeth Is Missing was inspired by her grandmother’s dementia. Now the novelist has drawn from her own experiences for a thriller about the power dynamic between personal trainer and client Emma Healey’s two...
  • High levels of disordered eating among young people linked to brain differences
    Friday, January 10, 2025 from Eating Disorder Research News -- ScienceDaily
    More than half of 23-year-olds in a European study show restrictive, emotional or uncontrolled eating behaviors, according to new research. Structural brain differences appear to play a role in the development of these eating habits.
  • How I escaped the wild west of #cleaneating Instagram and TikTok
    Monday, December 16, 2024 from Eating disorders | The Guardian
    Misinformation about health, nutrition and food are rampant on social media. For people prone to eating disorders, this can lead down a dangerous path Weeks after giving birth to my son in early 2022, I found a lump in my breast. After...
  • Ads for ‘weight-loss treatments’ are everywhere in Australia. Are they promoting prescription drugs?
    Sunday, November 17, 2024 from Eating disorders | The Guardian
    The huge popularity of drugs such as Ozempic has led to a small industry of online operations offering weight-loss programs Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news...
  • My husband unfairly blames me for our son’s eating disorder | Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    Friday, November 1, 2024 from Eating disorders | The Guardian
    Perhaps your son’s aversion to food is a symptom of a wider anxiety – finding ways to talk about it is key to discovering its cause Every week Annalisa Barbieri addresses a problem sent in by a reader My husband and I have two teenage...
  • Albanese’s ‘knee-jerk’ social media ban not enough to curb growing harm from eating disorders, experts say
    Wednesday, October 9, 2024 from Eating disorders | The Guardian
    Onus needs to be on social media companies to make them safer, including allowing users to reset algorithms Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australia’s...
  • Brain divides meal into different phases
    Tuesday, September 17, 2024 from Eating Disorder Research News -- ScienceDaily
    The process of food intake appears to be organized at the cellular level like a relay race: during eating, the baton is passed between different teams of neurons until we have consumed the appropriate amount of energy. Through this...
  • My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir by Sarah Moss review – an interrogation of an eating disorder
    Sunday, September 15, 2024 from Eating disorders | The Guardian
    Two internal monologues vie for attention in The Fell author’s revelatory account of her struggles with anorexia and its roots in her childhood Sarah Moss’s memoir, the story of how her upbringing developed in her a lifelong, destructive...
  • ‘Worrying lack of moderation’: how eating disorder posts proliferate on X
    Saturday, September 7, 2024 from Eating disorders | The Guardian
    Users say harmful content from accounts they do not follow appears even after requests to block it Debbie was scrolling through X in April when some unwelcome posts appeared on her feed. One showed a photo of someone who was visibly...
  • Parents' eating behavior influences how their children respond to food
    Monday, August 12, 2024 from Eating Disorder Research News -- ScienceDaily
    Young children often display similar eating behavior as their parents, with a parent's own eating style influencing how they feed their children.
  • Watching just minutes of TikTok content can negatively impact a woman’s body image, study finds
    Wednesday, August 7, 2024 from Eating disorders | The Guardian
    Experts are concerned that harmful videos glorifying eating disorders are rarely taken down by the platform, even when flagged Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or...
  • Some Demon review – secrets and cynicism in an adult eating disorder unit
    Tuesday, June 18, 2024 from Eating disorders | The Guardian
    Arcola theatre, London Set in a chronically understaffed treatment centre, Laura Waldren’s searing play homes in on the hellish cycles and contradictions caused by the condition For anyone who has ever lived with an eating disorder,...
  • New home-administered treatment for binge eating disorder shows promising results
    Thursday, June 6, 2024 from Eating Disorder Research News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers have investigated the feasibility of a new home-administered treatment for binge eating disorder. The new treatment combines a gentle brain stimulation technique called transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) with a...
  • Binge-eating disorder not as transient as previously thought
    Tuesday, May 28, 2024 from Eating Disorder Research News -- ScienceDaily
    New research finds that binge-eating disorder symptoms may persist longer than once believed, finding 61 percent and 45 percent of individuals still experienced binge-eating disorder 2.5 and 5 years after their initial diagnoses,...
  • Craving snacks after a meal? It might be food-seeking neurons, not an overactive appetite
    Wednesday, March 20, 2024 from Eating Disorder Research News -- ScienceDaily
    Psychologists have discovered a circuit in the brain of mice that makes them crave food and seek it out, even when they are not hungry. When stimulated, this cluster of cells propels mice to forage vigorously and to prefer fatty and...
  • Avid appetite in childhood linked to later eating disorder symptoms
    Tuesday, February 20, 2024 from Eating Disorder Research News -- ScienceDaily
    The study looked at survey data from 3,670 young people in the UK and the Netherlands to investigate how appetite traits in early childhood might relate to the likelihood of developing eating disorder symptoms up to 10 years later. The...
  • A closer look at cannabis use and binge eating
    Tuesday, February 13, 2024 from Eating Disorder Research News -- ScienceDaily
    New research examined how often people experiencing binge eating are also using cannabis recreationally, and whether patients who use cannabis experience more severe eating disorder symptoms or symptoms of struggling with mental health.
  • Study reveals new genetic link between anorexia nervosa and being an early riser
    Thursday, January 4, 2024 from Eating Disorder Research News -- ScienceDaily
    New research indicates that the eating disorder anorexia nervosa is associated with being an early riser, unlike many other disorders that tend to be evening-based such as depression, binge eating disorder and schizophrenia.
  • Researchers identify the link between memory and appetite in the human brain to explain obesity
    Wednesday, August 30, 2023 from Eating Disorder Research News -- ScienceDaily
    Disrupted connections between memory and appetite regulating brain circuits are directly proportional to body mass index (BMI), notably in patients who suffer from disordered or overeating that can lead to obesity, such as binge eating...
  • Exposure therapy to feared foods may help kids with eating disorders
    Wednesday, April 5, 2023 from Eating Disorder Research News -- ScienceDaily
    Whether you're afraid of dogs, needles or enclosed spaces, one of the most effective interventions for this type of anxiety disorder is exposure therapy in which you confront your fear in a safe environment. A new study finds that...
  • Body Dissatisfaction Can Lead to Eating Disorders at Any Age
    Wednesday, January 18, 2023 from Eating Disorder Research News -- ScienceDaily
    Eating disorders are stereotypically associated with adolescents and young adults. Growing evidence, however, suggests that these conditions can occur at any time during a woman's lifespan, including at midlife. A new study finds that...
  • Scientists uncover possible neural link between early life trauma and binge-eating disorder
    Monday, December 12, 2022 from Eating Disorder Research News -- ScienceDaily
    Research has revealed how a pathway in the brain that typically provides signals to stop eating may be altered by early life trauma. The discovery, obtained from studies in mice adds new perspective to binge eating and obesity.
  • What is the difference between anorexia and bulimia?
    Monday, January 13, 2020 from Eating Disorders News From Medical News Today
    People with anorexia tend to severely restrict their food intake, while those with bulimia go through periods of overeating followed by unhealthful behaviors to ‘purge.’ Learn more here.
  • Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID): What to know
    Friday, December 6, 2019 from Eating Disorders News From Medical News Today
    Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is a recently recognized eating disorder. People with ARFID stop growing and gaining weight as they do not eat enough calories.
  • Tips and more to help curb binge eating
    Monday, November 11, 2019 from Eating Disorders News From Medical News Today
    There are many strategies to help curb binge eating, including identifying and removing triggers, planning meals, and reducing stress. Learn more in this article.
  • What to know about pica
    Wednesday, October 23, 2019 from Eating Disorders News From Medical News Today
    Pica occurs when people crave and eat nonfood items. In some cases, this behavior can become harmful. This article describes what pica is, lists some possible causes, and explains how best to treat it.
  • How to induce vomiting: What to know
    Thursday, September 5, 2019 from Eating Disorders News From Medical News Today
    Although people sometimes wish to induce vomiting to treat poisoning, to relieve nausea, or due to an eating disorder, there are no safe ways to do this at home. Learn more about the risks of inducing vomiting here.
  • What different eating disorders are there?
    Thursday, September 5, 2019 from Eating Disorders News From Medical News Today
    Eating disorders are conditions that involve disordered eating. Learn more about the different types of eating disorder and their associated symptoms and complications here.
  • Metabolic factors likely contribute to anorexia
    Friday, July 19, 2019 from Eating Disorders News From Medical News Today
    A genetic study suggests that anorexia nervosa has metabolic as well as psychiatric components and opens the door to new treatments for the illness.
  • Concerta vs. Vyvanse for ADHD
    Wednesday, July 17, 2019 from Eating Disorders News From Medical News Today
    Concerta and Vyvanse are two stimulant medications that can help treat ADHD. In this article, learn about how they work, as well as their possible side effects.
  • What is the link between Vyvanse and hypersexuality?
    Thursday, June 27, 2019 from Eating Disorders News From Medical News Today
    Vyvanse is a brand of amphetamine that doctors may prescribe for ADHD or binge eating disorder (BED). Some research links amphetamine use to hypersexuality, and both ADHD and BED may also affect sexual function. Learn more about the...
  • How to get back on track after binge eating
    Thursday, May 30, 2019 from Eating Disorders News From Medical News Today
    Many people overeat occasionally, but there are a number of different ways to get back on track. In this article, learn about what to do after binge eating to return to a healthful routine.
  • What causes a loss of appetite?
    Monday, December 17, 2018 from Eating Disorders News From Medical News Today
    Loss of appetite can have many causes, including short-term infections, psychological or mental health conditions, cancers, and certain medications. In this article, we look at the causes and symptoms of appetite loss, along with...
  • Is compulsive eating before a period normal?
    Thursday, October 11, 2018 from Eating Disorders News From Medical News Today
    In the days before a period, it is common to eat compulsively. Some tips and strategies can help prevent these cravings. Learn more here.
  • What are the effects of bulimia on the body?
    Thursday, August 23, 2018 from Eating Disorders News From Medical News Today
    Bulimia is an eating disorder that involves bingeing and purging. It can affect a person’s physical, mental, and emotional health. The side effects, which include tooth decay, digestive issues, and arrhythmia, may become severe without...
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