While hospitalizations for eating disorders are down overall, one category is rising at an alarming rate, says the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. From 1999 to 2009, hospitalizations for ...

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Our skin is often covered with tiny imperfections—blemishes, moles, cuts and spots that we're all guilty of picking at from time to time. Consider the temptation of that bulbous yellow head of a spot ...

Eating Disorder Exacts a High Toll on Men Too New research shows that men who binge eat experience comparable levels of clinical impairment as women, yet remain underrepresented in clinical trials.

This is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. Some people may see eating disorders as phases, fads or lifestyle choices, but they’re actually serious mental disorders which are recognized by the ...

The famous British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that “the human body is the best picture of the human soul”. Without a healthy body, no one ca ...

Many people think you have to be dangerously thin to have an eating disorder, but that’s a myth. This misunderstanding is dangerous ...