Clients may present with anxiety or trauma while eating disorder symptoms remain hidden.

Emotional triggers, such as stress, guilt, and loneliness, or environmental triggers, such as grocery shopping, media, and dieting, can cause binge eating episodes in individuals with binge eating ...

People often associate eating disorders with females. However, eating disorder behaviors, such as fasting, purging, and having a preoccupation with body image, can also affect males. The desire to ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) classifies eating disorders as mental health conditions. Because of that, treatments for eating disorders fall under Original Medicare (parts A and B ...

Sleep-eating disorders, like nocturnal eating syndrome (NES) and sleep-related eating disorder (SRED), may cause people to eat more than they desire at night. However, treatments are available. There ...

Eating disorders among teenagers skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Teens like Moorea Friedmann were isolated, spending more time in front of their computers watching movies and TV, where ...

Eating behaviour is determined by genetic, psychological, sociocultural, and environmental factors. Disturbances in eating behaviour characterized by either insufficient or excessive food intake, ...

You may not have heard of orthorexia, but you’ve probably seen it. It’s an eating disorder that’s characterized as an obsession with only consuming “healthy” foods—and it’s on the rise, says Sadi Fox, ...

While the concept of eating disorders has become more broadly discussed over the last few years, less is understood about the psychology behind them — namely, what is happening inside the brain of a ...

Several Olympic figure skaters have spoken publicly of their eating disorders in recent years, highlighting the risks of ...

The KC Eating Disorder Clinic owned by Kaitlyn Cornell, a licensed clinical social worker, opened its doors in Champaign in October.

For years, eating disorders were thought to predominantly affect women and girls. But it’s estimated that 1 in 3 people with the condition is male, and that 10 million American boys and men will ...