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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 ...

Although reduced body image and low self-esteem are potential risk factors for eating disorders, they’re not the only factors at play. Body dissatisfaction can increase your risk of disordered eating ...

The Mental Health Project is a Seattle Times initiative focused on covering mental and behavioral health issues. It is funded by Ballmer Group, a national organization focused on economic mobility for ...

A 2020 report from Harvard STRIPED, the Academy for Eating Disorders, and Deloitte found that 9 percent of the U.S. population—28.8 million Americans—will have an eating disorder in their lifetime.

SPOKANE, Wash. -- It is the deadliest mental illness category in the United States, killing one person every 52 minutes: eating disorders. They are difficult to treat, with few therapists trained and ...

Kim Nguyen weighed barely 80 pounds when she finally reached an eating disorder specialist through Medi-Cal last year. Her periods were sporadic. Her electrolytes were dangerously skewed, a condition ...

If your eating is disordered, you might be ignoring your hunger cues (meaning you're not eating when you’re hungry), ...