Eating Disorders

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Eating Disorders Blogs

  • Emily Troscianko

    A Hunger Artist

    Winning the Battle Against Anorexia
  • Susan Carnell

    Bad Appetite

    The social, psychological, and biological drivers of appetite
  • Adia Colar

    New Chapter

    A young woman charts her ongoing recovery from eating disorders.
  • Sheila Himmel

    You Must Be Hungry

    A food critic grapples with her daughter's eating disorders.

Eating Disorders Basics

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that is prevalent especially among young women and, increasingly, among young men. Marked by a distorted sense of body image and extreme voluntary starvation, and closely associated with perfectionism and depression, it is the most deadly psychiatric disorder.

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Disordered eating is widespread in the American population, but frank eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, which is also called bing

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