Charlie Health reports that eating disorders are significantly influenced by genetics, with family history increasing risk ...

Long overlooked in women 40 and older, midlife eating disorders are going up. Eating disorder specialists cite hormonal ...

These range from chewing gum to reduce food intake to more extreme symptoms such as consuming cotton balls ... In addition, 53.9% had bulimia nervosa and 4.8% had a binge eating disorder. The most ...

Disordered eating - the term used for problematic behaviour not frequent or severe enough for an eating disorder diagnosis - ...

Charlie Health reports that summer intensifies body image concerns and eating disorders, especially among young people and ...

Bulimia nervosa, commonly known as "bulimia," is an eating disorder characterized by recurring binge eating episodes followed ...

Disordered eating doesn’t always lead to an eating disorder. But these behaviours – especially dieting – can be the first ...

Abstract A new diagnostic classification within the eating disorders group called "binge eating disorder" (BED) has been proposed in the DSM-IV. BED identifies a group of patients who regularly ...

Shi, a former psychological doctor at the Medical Psychology Department of the PLA General Hospital Third Medical Center, ...

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The study, published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders, is the first large-scale investigation of under-recognized weight-loss behaviors in individuals with eating disorders.