Eating disorders impact more than 1.1 million people in Australia, representing 4.5% of the population. These disorders include binge eating disorder, bulimia nervosa, and anorexia nervosa. Meanwhile, ...

Elevation Partners co-founder Roger McNamee argues the social media giant's value system conflicts with values of its users. Facebook’s own researchers have found that Instagram barrages teen girls ...

Insurers are using loopholes in a mental health parity law to get around paying for expensive in-patient care ...

Anna Mockel was 14 and suddenly obsessed with losing weight. It was spring 2020, and she had just graduated eighth grade remotely. Housebound and nervous about the transition to high school that ...

Thigh gaps were so 2010s — unfortunately, the youngsters on TikTok prefer vintage. Young Gen Zers and Gen Alphas are fascinated by the concept of “legging legs,” glorifying exaggerated thigh gaps that ...

Last week, Lara Pence, Psy.D, MBA, and site director of The Renfrew Center of Texas spoke at another of the informative webinar series that Renfrew offers from time to time. Her topic: eating ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Sitting down for regular family meals may protect teen girls from developing eating disorders, according to a new study published in the Archives of Pediatrics and ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Girls from well educated families who do well at school appear to be more at risk of developing an eating disorder, maybe because they feel more pressure to succeed, ...

This week is National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, and it is estimated that nearly 30 million Americans suffer from a clinically significant eating disorder. That’s greater than the entire ...

They exercise for hours, devise rigid rituals surrounding food, obsessively monitor their weight and yearn to resemble the taut-bodied celebrities whose images grace magazine covers. But the models ...