In girls, eating disorders are often linked with a mood disorder, but that’s not the case with eating disorders in boys, according to a new study.
Date Posted: February 22, 2016
Categories: Eating Disorders
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Binge eating disorder (BED) is one of the most common eating disorders, yet it wasn’t included as an official diagnostic category until 2013. It is commonly defined as consuming a large amount of food in a short period of time, while experiencing ...
Jan 20
Categories: Eating Disorders
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Avoidant/ Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is a new diagnosis for kids who avoid food but do not have body-image issues.
Jan 6
Categories: Eating Disorders
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Most people think of eating disorders and drug addiction as separate and distinct issues, but as many people who suffer with these maladies know firsthand, there is often significant overlap between the two.
Dec 1
Categories: Addictions, Drug Addiction, Eating Disorders
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When does ‘eating clean’ become an eating disorder? Orthorexia Nervosa (literally, “correct appetite disorder”) though absent from all psychiatric manuals, is an illness that has been making the rounds online.
Nov 6
Categories: Eating Disorders, Health / Illness / Medical Issues, Obsessions & ...
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Eating disorders in males may not always resemble the typical pattern of efforts to slim down as observed in women’s disordered eating behavior. Cultural pressures and gender norms may give rise to different symptoms.
Sep 17
Categories: Eating Disorders, Men's Issues
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So your young children won't eat Brussels sprouts, broccoli or beans? Maybe it's just a phase, and they'll grow out of it. Maybe they're tired of you bossing them around and this is one place where they can push back. Maybe, many parents say, you ...
Aug 5
Categories: Anxiety, Child Development, Depression, Eating Disorders, Mental ...
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The brain's effect on other parts of the body has been well established. Now, a group that includes two University of Florida Health researchers has found that it's a two-way street: Body fat can send a signal that affects the way the brain deals ...
Jul 25
Categories: Eating Disorders, Stress Management
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Research shows that independent of weight gain and obesity, high-fat feeding can cause impairments in the functioning of the brain circuitry profoundly implicated in mood disorders, drug addiction, and overeating - several states and pathologies ...
Jul 21
Categories: Addictions, Eating Disorders, Mood Swings / Bipolar
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Many adults, regardless of their weight, resolve to avoid fatty foods and unhealthy desserts. But despite one's best intentions, when the moment for decision comes, that chocolate lava cake is often too enticing and self-control vanishes.
This ...
Mar 25
Categories: Eating Disorders
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The Mediterranean diet is known to prevent against heart disease and is hailed as the secret to a long, healthy life. Now, researchers have found the can help people with depression, too.
A study found people who followed the diet were happier, ...
Mar 17
Categories: Anxiety, Eating Disorders, Stress Management
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Study of OCD finds this indispensable system could be the key to multiple psychological problems.
Dec 26
Categories: Addictions, Eating Disorders, Obsessions & Compulsions (OCD)
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The number of young people suffering from eating disorders has risen significantly in the past decade and is still climbing.
New cases at Singapore General Hospital (SGH), the only hospital to have an exclusive eating disorder programme here, have ...
Nov 28
Categories: Eating Disorders, Mental Health in Asia
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Thanks to the obesity epidemic, we've seen an explosion of research on the problem of excess weight and the physiological mechanisms of weight control. It has turned out that body weight balance is far from the simple arithmetic of "calories in" and ...
Nov 26
Categories: Eating Disorders, Sleep Disorders
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Learning to pay attention to your emotions is a more powerful weight-loss strategy than greater nutritional knowledge, a new study finds.
Nov 17
Categories: Eating Disorders
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For children, the lure of cookies and fast food is distinctly more powerful than for adolescents and adults, although children's cognitive wiring is well suited to train such cravings, according to researchers hailing principally from Columbia ...
Oct 11
Categories: Child Development, Eating Disorders
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