Lachlan “Lucky” Munro opened up about overcoming his years-long struggle with food addiction, gaining nearly 100 lbs. due to ...

Eating disorders are psychological conditions characterized by unhealthy, obsessive, or disordered eating habits. Eating disorders come with both emotional and physical symptoms and include ...

The lifetime prevalence of eating disorders among adolescents in the U.S. is 3.8 percent for women and 1.5 percent for men, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Among adults in ...

We need to be careful to avoid thinking of them in simplistic terms like, "anorexia is just a plea for attention" or "bulimia is just an addiction to food." Eating disorders arise from a variety ...

I think of all the addictions that are out there. An eating addiction is one of the hardest to overcome because it's necessary to live. It's hard for somebody having trouble with it to ...

Beauty will always be an undefinable, nebulous concept. So, the term “beauty standard” is already failing to be anything but ...

A review by Oxford researchers explores how psychedelics like psilocybin and LSD may help disrupt compulsive eating behaviors ...

Your teeth enamel goes away. My mom was actually bulimic when she was in high school.It is common for mothers and daughters to have eating disorders. I didn't see myself as fat, but I never felt ...

"A number of factors contribute to food addiction, which is characterized by loss of control over food intake and is associated with obesity, other eating disorders and alterations in the ...

Published in the Journal of Eating Disorders, the study from the University of South Australia involved 235 participants being randomly allocated to one of four groups. They were asked to fill out ...

Eating disorders have the second highest mortality rate of any psychiatric illness behind opiate addiction. Tosh also said eating disorders pose a grave danger to younger people. "Among children ...