Eating disorders are characterized by a persistent disturbance of eating patterns that leads to poor physical and/or psychological health. The major eating disorders are anorexia nervosa ...

What Is an Eating Disorder? Eating disorders are a group of conditions marked by an unhealthy relationship with food. They tend to develop during the teenage and young adult years, and they are ...

Binge eating disorder can seriously affect a person’s physical and mental health. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is the most effective treatment. Healthcare professionals can prescribe it ...

Eating disorders encompass harmful and often dangerous patterns of eating. This behavior is often driven by—and expressed as—dissatisfaction about one’s body and weight. Common signs can ...

FRIDAY, Jan. 31, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Calorie labels on restaurant menus are harming people with eating disorders, a new evidence review claims. These labels are meant to make it healthier to eat ...

The dining room at the new EDCare residential eating disorder treatment program, which opened this month in Denver and is the first residential program in Colorado to accept Medicaid. (Provided by ...

Racial discrimination, bullying, sexism and other forms of discrimination have also been shown to increase the risk for eating disorders. The pandemic-related isolation that sent many adolescents ...

A new report from the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on eating disorders has issued an urgent call for national reform to address the UK’s escalating eating disorder crisis. The report ...

Lives are being lost and families torn apart because of "woefully inadequate care" for people with eating disorders, according to a group of MPs. The "alarming" rise in disorders such as anorexia ...

Not that I had an eating disorder, at least not in the sense that I ever starved myself or made myself sick after meals. But back then, negative thoughts about my body consumed me in a way that ...

Automated Method to Detect Common Sleep Disorder Affecting Millions Jan. 9, 2025 — AI-powered algorithm can analyze video recordings of clinical sleep tests and more accurately diagnose REM ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder ( OCD) is a serious mental health disorder. Its name is often misused to describe people who like things super-clean or arranged just so. But when you actually have ...