Eating Disorders News

How many more fashion model deaths will it take before America passes legislation to ensure healthy-sized runway walkers?

Health

The New Improved BMI

Marcia Herrin Ed.D., M.P.H., on March 26, 2015

BMI categories underestimate the presumed health consequences of lower weights and overestimate the presumed health consequences of higher weights.

BMI categories underestimate the presumed health consequences of lower weights and overestimate the presumed health consequences of higher weights.

Twenty years after the Beijing conference on women's rights and gender equality, we still have work to do.

"At some point we made pain a problem to be solved like a math problem. Pain can't be solved any more than a sunset can be solved."

The anxiety surrounding giving up an eating disorder is immense.

In our globalized world, the idea of the "Western toxin effect" now seems quaint.

Why we disagree with the film "Fed Up."

Heads up to friends and family members of someone suffering from an eating disorder.

Anorexia is putting teenagers are risk for broken bones.

In a high-risk profession for eating disorders, a dancer-turned cook teaches healthy cooking and eating.

Dance and the child at risk for disordered eating.

Your hair will get too thin if you get too thin.

Humor

Hello, Real-size Doll; Goodbye, Freakish Barbie

Nancy Matsumoto on March 5, 2014

Will a real-size doll take the place of Barbie?

Will a real-size doll take the place of Barbie?

How you can start on your path to recovery.

In dramatic fashion, author Lee Wolfe Blum tells her tale of illness and redemption.

New apps make self-monitoring interactive and even fun for patients and provide lots of information for clinicians.

Food journals solve mysteries and suggest solutions.

Two 13-year-old-girls make a powerful short film about eating disorders.

A common sense approach helps picky eaters with ARFID.

Accepting your body and organizing your child's eating is a recipe for success.