You may not have heard of orthorexia, but you’ve probably seen it. It’s an eating disorder that’s characterized as an ...

Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is an eating disorder. If you have it, you'll limit the amount and type of food you eat. Doctors sometimes call ARFID a selective eating disorder.

"Healthy" is something that has been conflated with weight, BMI, and body size. But true health is something different.

Dr. Simon Sherry receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He also owns CRUX Psychology, a private practice in psychology. Eating disorders such as anorexia ...

Disordered eating is so common that it’s hard to identify and define. It’s just accepted as "normal.” Kind of like fish not knowing they’re wet. It’s just how they live. Everyone is born with all of ...

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 ...

Purging disorder is an eating disorder similar to anorexia or bulimia. Despite not having a separate entry in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Text Revision (DSM-5-TR), it's a ...

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 ...

Research shows that, on average, someone in the United States dies from complications due to an eating disorder approximately ...

Higher body dissatisfaction was linked to more severe eating disorder, depressive symptoms in monozygotic and dizygotic twin difference analyses. HealthDay News — Body dissatisfaction may causally ...

One contributor to this disparity is a lack of access to the right care. Many people with eating disorders need inpatient treatment, which can cost an average of $20,000. And many insurance providers ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...