CNN

What someone with an eating disorder wishes you knew

Getting diagnosed with an eating disorder happened by accident to Emily Boring. She went to her university’s mental health office to talk about anxiety she was feeling, and through conversations ...
Business Insider

Scientists are studying twins to understand a type of eating disorder linked to anxiety. It could be genetic.

Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is an eating disorder tied to autism and anxiety. People with ARFID have trouble eating due to sensory aversions to food. A new study of children with ...
Lawrence Journal-World

College students with eating disorders face a ‘treatment desert,’ and KU researchers say their app-based program can help

Members of the Unviersity of Kansas's Center for the Advancement of Research on Eating Behaviors. The team has helped develop the BEST-U treatment program. When you study eating disorders like KU ...
cnycentral

Upstate treating 'explosion' of eating disorders in children

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Every 52 minutes, a person dies as a direct consequence of an eating disorder. Kids as young as five can develop one, and there has been a massive spike over the last five years. From ...
Psychology Today

The New Year Trap of Starting Over for Eating Disorders

The urge to "start over" for the new year feels hopeful. In eating disorders, that same impulse can either support recovery ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Are Psychedelics the Future of Eating Disorder Treatment?

Ketamine and esketamine are the only psychedelics currently being used clinically with eating disorder patients. RJ Sangosti / MediaNews Group / The Denver Post via Getty Images Sarah Kelley was 14 ...
Forbes

2 Ways Technology Is Making Eating Disorder Treatment Accessible To Everyone

We appear to be at a new era of eating disorder treatment, where technology bridges gaps, creating pathways to healing when and where they’re needed the most. The fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic ...
STAT

‘There’s a huge fatphobia problem in the eating disorder world’: Even in treatment, weight stigma fails patients

This is part of a series about new obesity drugs that are transforming patients’ lives, dividing medical experts, and spurring one of the biggest business battles in years. Read more about The Obesity ...

Teens are being hospitalized with eating disorders at double the rate since the pandemic began, report says

According to new research, eating disorders among adolescents are increasingly common, and one treatment center has a six-month waitlist.
Time

What Recovery Looks Like When You Have an Eating Disorder

Kazdin is a writer, performer, four-time Emmy Award winning television journalist, and author of What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety As I entered the homestretch of my ...
Fierce Healthcare

Equip nabs additional investment to expand virtual eating disorder treatment services to adult patients

Digital health startup Equip is expanding its virtual eating disorder treatment services to adults as demand for care continues to grow. Equip launched in 2019 to provide effective eating disorder ...