Eating Disorders/Disordered Eating Articles

Here’s another reason to encourage eating meals together as a family: your teenagers will have a lower risk of developing any type of disordered eating behavior. For a period of 5 years, researchers examined adolescent boys and girls and the frequency with which their families ate together. The aim was to track the connection between family meals and al...

nutrition By Jennie McCary, MS, RD, LD tackling teens' eating disorders What fitness professionals can do to help adolescent girls and boys. The media's current focus on childhood obesity and its long-term health consequences is timely and justified, given that the number of young people who are overweight or obese is at an all-time high. But in a society already so preoccupied with physical appe...

A study published in the journal NeuroImage is lending wei...

food I s S t r e s s M a k i n g Yo u Tension-reducing strategies to try Fat? when you're craving those high-calorie comfort foods. Some people handle stress by undertaking great challenges and reaching for the stars. Many of us, however, react to pressure by reaching for a bag of chocolate chip cookies. The relationship between stress and eating behavior is complicated. Does stress simply re...

Here’s another reason to encourage eating meals together as a family: your teenagers will have a lower risk of developing any type of disordered eating behavior. For a period of 5 years, researchers examined adolescent boys and girls and the frequency with which their families ate together. The aim was to track the connection between family meals and all degrees of disordered eating. The behaviors ranged from merely unhealthy ones, such as occasionally skipping meals to lose weight, to much more dangerous ones, including frequent use of laxatives and diet pills.

People who constantly diet tend to have lower body satisfaction than those who are content with their weight. Now a new study shows that dieting itself may be a precursor to eating disorders in adolescents who are already emotionally vulnerable to poor body image. A study published in the April issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association found that dieting and...

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Many fitness facility members look to group fitness instructors for cues on how to exercise and live a healthy lifestyle. However, these role models may have—or be at an increased risk for—eating disorders, body dissatisfaction and compulsive exercise.

Did you know that experts are noticing an increase in eating disorders among middle-aged and older people? The Remuda Ranch, a treatment center for females with eating disorders in Phoenix is seeing more middle-aged and senior women with such problems for the first time. The center gives the following reasons for the rise in eating disorders among this age group: a dramatic increase in youth consciousness compared to 20 years ago