Defining an eating disorder is more difficult than you might think. Increasingly, research is focusing on people who slip through the diagnostic cracks. Diagnoses like anorexia nervosa and bulimia ...
Other Specified Feeding and Eating Disorder (OSFED) is a rather new eating disorder that has flown under the radar. The National Eating Disorders Collaboration calls OSFED a variation of Anorexia ...
FORECAST I HAVE EVER SEEN. WHEN YOU THINK OF EATING DISORDERS, YOU PROBABLY THINK ANOREXIA, BULIMIA, OR BINGE EATING. BUT BY ONE ESTIMATE, 30% OF PEOPLE WHO SEEK TREATMENT FOR AN EATING DISORDER ...
The media has portrayed the looks of the three most well-recognized eating disorders—anorexia, bulimia, and binge-eating disorder (BED)—as distinct, and judgments are often made about the severity and ...
The media has portrayed the looks of the three most well-recognized eating disorders—anorexia, bulimia, and binge-eating disorder (BED)—as distinct, and judgments are often made about the severity and ...
The eating disorder that outranks both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa is called OSFED (other specified feeding and eating disorders). It’s basically the catchall for eating disorders that don’t ...
Research suggests that nearly 30 million Americans will experience an eating disorder in their lifetime. Yet, despite growing awareness, many still have a limited understanding of these conditions ...
Some of us might have a friend—or we might be that friend—who is always trying a new diet, cutting hangouts short to jet to the gym, or critiquing parts of their body. While these behaviors don’t ...