Comprehensive Eating Disorder Statistics; How to Help a Loved One & Yourself if No One Knows –2

Comprehensive Eating Disorder Statistics; How To Help A Loved One & Yourself If No One Knows –2 – This is Part 2 of a video for @lifelaughlatte, a team of moms who field questions from girls and other parents. This morning, Holly (one of the moms) put up …

Strength and Family Key to Recovering from Eating Disorder
The program at Golisano Children's Hospital is a premiere treatment center for eating disorders and receives referrals from across New York state and Pennsylvania. Diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, Alyssa was eventually hospitalized several times, the … Read more on University of Rochester Newsroom

Study links sexually harassed men to eating disorders
Eating disorders and sexual harassment have been often associated with women. But a new study found men who have experienced sexual harassment are more likely than women to respond with vomiting, laxatives and other methods of "purging" to control … Read more on MSN News

Binge Eating Disorder Becomes an Official Eating Disorder Diagnosis
Binge eating disorder (BED) is perhaps one of the most widely misunderstood mental disorders despite the fact that it affects as many as 3.5 percent of American women and 2 percent of American men. This illness, which is characterized by compulsive, … Read more on Huffington Post

[ESSAY] 'My Struggle with Bulimia Started at 9'
At thirteen when I'd learned that the punishment I kept putting my body through had a name, I rejected it. Bulimia was an eating disorder, and all of the literature that I'd read about it told me that eating disorders were for young, White girls from … Read more on EBONY.com