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. But what ...

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 ...

These girls, aged 12 to 15, never crossed the line into full eating disorders. In fact, they became healthy young women with normal-enough eating. Siena switched from a vegetarian diet to a ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — As part of Eating Disorder Awareness Week, it is import to take note that 30 million Americans now suffer the disorders, two-thirds of them women and many more young girls are also ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anna Mockel was 14 and suddenly obsessed with losing weight. It was spring 2020, and she had just graduated eighth grade remotely.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A mother's social media post recently went viral after sharing how to politely decline purchasing Girl Scout cookies without using toxic and harmful diet culture language. In her post she notes, “Our ...